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At the Circus is a 1939 comedy film starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they help save a circus from bankruptcy. The film contains Groucho Marx's classic rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady". The supporting cast includes Florence Rice, Kenny Baker, Margaret Dumont, and Eve Arden.
Circus proprietor Larsen E. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (Bergen's ventriloquist's dummy/alter-ego, whom Whipsnade hates). Whipsnade's co-ed daughter pays a visit and falls in love with Bergen, but after she sees the financial mess ...
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Before he became a star, Baker sang as a member of the Vitaphone chorus at Warner Bros. [2]At the height of his radio fame, and after leaving the Benny show in 1939 (succeeded by Dennis Day, whose tenor voice was very similar to Baker's), he appeared in 17 film musicals, including Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937), At the Circus (1939), and The Harvey Girls (1946).
Day at the Circus may refer to: Day at the Circus, documentary short by Edwin S. Porter; Day at the Circus, a 2006 episode of American comedy series Robot Chicken; see List of Robot Chicken episodes; A Day at the Circus, working title of the 1939 Marx Brothers film At the Circus; A Day at the Circus, a 1987 program in the Kidsongs series
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The Circus: Nominated Chaplin was originally nominated in this category (and three others) for The Circus, but the academy took him out of the running and gave him a Special Award. 1929–30 George Arliss: Disraeli: Won The Green Goddess: Nominated Ronald Colman: Bulldog Drummond: Nominated Condemned: Nominated 1932–33 Charles Laughton
Donald Henry Pleasence (/ ˈ p l ɛ z ə n s /; [2] 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) [3] was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before having a screen career, which included starring in a 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, before playing numerous supporting and character roles in films including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The ...