Under the Big Top

Aug 31, 1938

1h 3m

★ 5.5

High flying adventure!

Overview

Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze star.

Genres

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Monogram Pictures

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Cast

Sara Post

Marjorie Main

Penny

Anne Nagel

Ricardo Le Grande

Jack La Rue

Pablo Le Grande

Grant Richards

Joe

George Cleveland

Juba

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

Herman

Herbert Rawlinson

Penny (as a child)

Charlene Wyatt

McCarthy

Harry Harvey

Marie

Betty Compson

Pierre

Rolfe Sedan

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