Blacaman’s sequence ends with him receiving thanks from
Charlie and Bergen.
(What do you bet that the cage wagon in the background
probably contained Blacaman’s lions.)
While not a particularly good showcase for Blacaman’s unique act, which
has been described elsewhere, You Can’t Cheat an Honest
Man does show him working with his animals. By virtue of his having appeared in this W.C.
Fields film, Blacaman is assured of being remembered long after the names of
many of his more famous contemporaries from the circus world will have faded
from memory.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Blacaman #22
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Having had the Al G. Barnes Circus to use in the movies in the 1930s, the studios now had the defunct Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus sitting at the Al G. Barnes winter quarters where eventually much of it would end up in the hands of Louis Goebels. Many a circus movie was made in the next 20 years or so using the old Hagenbeck-Wallace circus equipment.
Bob
The cage in the background is known to HW fans as # 20. It was one of the cages that was destroyed the train wreck scene of the Greatest Show on Earth.
Bob
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