The Clarence Brown Film Festival in Knoxville

The Siren will be in Tennessee to celebrate the life and work of one of MGM's most valued directors.

This week, starting Wednesday, the Siren will be in Knoxville, Tennessee, for The Clarence Brown Film Festival, organized by the Knox County Public Library. The festival celebrates prolific director Clarence Brown, who spent some formative years in Tennessee. His career spanned the silent era into the 1950s and included some of the classic era’s best-lo…