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Carnival
Carnival
  1. Movies
  2. Carnival

Carnival

1935
1h 17m
Romance
Comedy

Status

Released

Release

1935

Runtime

1h 17m

Where to Watch

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Storyline

"You'll Laugh with 'Em and at 'Em!"

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 17m
Feb 15, 1935
Languages
English
Director
Walter Lang
Walter Lang
Production
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures
Production Countries
United States of America

Top Cast

71 Cast Members

Lee Tracy

Lee Tracy

Chick Thompson

Sally Eilers

Sally Eilers

Daisy

Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Durante

Fingers

Florence Rice

Florence Rice

Miss Holbrook

Thomas E. Jackson

Thomas E. Jackson

Mac

Dickie Walters

Poochy

Beverly Jean Gardner

Baby

Gene O'Brien

Billy Smith

John Aasen

John Aasen

Circus Giant

Ernie Adams

Ernie Adams

Barker (uncredited)

Betty Alden

Nurse

Oscar Apfel

Oscar Apfel

Mr. Lawson

Jessie Arnold

Jessie Arnold

Woman

Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball

Nurse (uncredited)

Helen Barclay

Nurse

T. Roy Barnes

T. Roy Barnes

Salesman

Arthur Belasco

Guard

Stanley Blystone

Stanley Blystone

Detective (uncredited)

Wade Boteler

Wade Boteler

Sheriff

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