Carnival (1935)

8.0/10 77 min Romance Comedy

Overview

"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.

Cast

Lee Tracy

Chick Thompson

Sally Eilers

Daisy

Jimmy Durante

Fingers

Florence Rice

Miss Holbrook

Thomas E. Jackson

Mac

John Aasen

Circus Giant

Ernie Adams

Barker (uncredited)

Oscar Apfel

Mr. Lawson

Jessie Arnold

Woman

Lucille Ball

Nurse (uncredited)

T. Roy Barnes

Salesman

Stanley Blystone

Detective (uncredited)

Wade Boteler

Sheriff

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