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  • I Dream Too Much picture
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    I Dream Too Much (1935)

    A French opera singer (Lily Pons) becomes famous, and her composer husband (Henry Fonda) resents it.

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    Jour De Fête

    A French mailman (Jacques Tati) sees a film on U.S. postal efficiency and applies it to his route on...

  • Julia Misbehaves picture
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    Julia Misbehaves (1948)

    An English actress (Greer Garson) goes to France for her daughter's (Elizabeth Taylor) wedding and...

  • Keep 'em Flying picture
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    Keep 'em Flying (1941)

    Two carnival stooges (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) join a stunt pilot in Army flight school and meet...

  • Let's Sing Again picture
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    Let's Sing Again

    An orphan soprano (Bobby Breen) joins a traveling show and learns from an opera singer (Henry...

  • The Lost Jungle picture
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    The Lost Jungle

    The Lost Jungle is a feature-length version of the 12-episode Mascot serial of the same name....

  • Make-Up picture
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    Make-Up

    In this drama, a doctor disguises himself as a circus clown and starts a new life. When a wealthy...

  • The Man Who Laughs picture
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    The Man Who Laughs (1928)

    A young man (Jean Sorel) is a pawn in the circa-1500 treachery of Lucrezia Borgia (Lisa Gastoni) and...

  • The Medicine Man picture
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    The Medicine Man (1930)

    A flip medicine man known for deserting women finally marries the daughter of a tough grocery store...

  • On Moonlight Bay picture
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    On Moonlight Bay

    A teenage tomboy (Doris Day) with a fun family makes music with a college man (Gordon MacRae) in...

  • Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus picture
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    Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938)

    Young Bill Peck has a romantic dalliance with an adolescent circus performer before heading to...

  • Queen for a Day picture
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    Queen for a Day (1951)

    The genesis for Queen for a Day was the Dorothy Parker short story Horsie, all about a homely woman...

  • Road Show picture
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    Road Show

    A playboy (John Hubbard) and a bogus colonel (Adolphe Menjou) escape from an asylum and join a...

  • Road to Zanzibar picture
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    Road to Zanzibar (1941)

    Two sideshow operators (Bing Crosby, Bob Hope) join Brooklyn girls on a jungle safari and meet...

  • Sally of the Sawdust picture
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    Sally of the Sawdust

    Pioneering filmmaker D.W. Griffith directed W.C. Fields in his first starring role in this silent...

  • So Dear to My Heart picture
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    So Dear to My Heart (1949)

    Like Disney's earlier Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart peppers its live action with animated...

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    Spangles

    Spangles was adapted by actress Leah Baird from the novel by Nellie Revell, with Revell receiving...

  • The Strong Man picture
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    The Strong Man (1926)

    The Strong Man was the second starring feature of silent screen comedian Harry Langdon--not to...

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    Sunny

    The heir (Anna Neagle) to an auto fortune falls in love with a circus star (Ray Bolger) in New...

  • Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise picture
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    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise

    A farmer's daughter (Greta Garbo) knows other men as a woman of the world, yet searches for the man...

  • Tarzan's New York Adventure picture
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    Tarzan's New York Adventure

    Tarzan and Jane go to New York to rescue Boy after he is kidnapped into a circus.

  • Texas Carnival picture
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    Texas Carnival (1951)

    The male half of a carnival-show dunking act (Esther Williams, Red Skelton) is mistaken for a rich...

  • Three Texas Steers picture
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    Three Texas Steers (1939)

    The Three Mesquiteers (John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune) help a circus owner thwart an...

  • Tromba, the Tiger Man picture
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    Tromba, the Tiger Man

    Originally released in Europe as simply Tromba, this German melodrama was distributed in the U.S. by...

  • The Unholy Three picture
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    The Unholy Three (1930)

    A ventriloquist (Lon Chaney) works a pet-shop scam with a carnival pickpocket (Lila Lee), midget and...

  • The Unknown picture
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    The Unknown (1927)

    A circus freak (Lon Chaney) goes to horrific lengths to win the woman (Joan Crawford) he admires....

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    Variété

    When American audiences were permitted to see German filmmaker E.A. Dupont's silent masterpiece...

  • Whistle Stop picture
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    Whistle Stop (1946)

    A small-town woman (Ava Gardner) causes trouble between her shiftless boyfriend (George Raft) and a...

  • Sunny picture
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    Sunny

    Broadway star Marilyn Miller's second starring film was an adaptation of her 1925 stage hit Sunny....

  • Rain or Shine picture
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    Rain or Shine

    A circus heiress (Joan Peers) and her faithful manager (Joe Cook) fight bad weather, a strike and a...