Friday, September 25, 2009

Circus Today #1 (From Eric Beheim)


CT-1, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

In 1926, Mack Sennett released CIRCUS TODAY, a 2-reel slapstick comedy starring Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde and Madeline Hurlock.



Billy and Andy play two inept show hands working for a circus that, according to a title card, “showed under one tent and six mortgages.”

Posted by Buckles at 9/25/2009 06:01:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

While scrolling down this very enjoyable set of photos, we are taping a 1933 movie entitled "The Circus Queen Murder", starring Adolphe Menjou (a Jersey boy, I believe), replete with bulls pushing wagons out of the mud on a dark rainy night, a street parade,
accompanied by Sousa music and a main character billed in the show as "The Great Sebastian". Wonder if DeMille saw this movie.

Paul G.

25 September, 2009 10:19
Frank Ferrante said...

Paul - More than likely it wasn't DeMille, but one of the following who say that movie
Story of "The Greatest Show On Earth"
Fredric M. Frank
Theodore St. John
Frank Cavett

Screenplay of "The Greatest Show On Earth"
Fredric M. Frank
Barré Lyndon (
Theodore St. John

26 September, 2009 22:24

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