The love story of a siren, a giant, and a dwarf!
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Screenplay
Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon
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Release date
February 12, 1932
Country
United States of America
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Top billed cast
Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova, Daisy Earles, Henry Victor, Wallace Ford
Production companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Keywords
dwarf, infidelity, attempted murder, clown, beauty, carnival, revenge, murder, cult film, newlywed, pre-code, bigotry, disability, sideshow, told in flashback, speech impediment, trapeze artist, stutterer, deformity, conjoined twins, freak, armless, midgets, midget, bareback rider, legless man, poisoned drink, pseudo-hermaphrodite, bearded lady, microcephalics, human skeleton
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