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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 ...
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).
4.10 1939. 5 1940s. Toggle 1940s subsection. 5.1 1940. ... Buddy's Circus: United States ... The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos: United States
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
An Evening With Groucho is the title of a 1972 compilation recording of the one-man show by American comedian Groucho Marx, edited from three separate performances: New York City's Carnegie Hall, C.Y. Stephens Auditorium at Iowa State University, and Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco, California.
Gertrude Ada Davies Lintz (1880 [1] – 1968 [2]) was an English-American dog breeder and socialite known for keeping exotic animals, including chimpanzees and gorillas, in her Brooklyn home. Her gorilla Buddy was sold to a circus and renamed Gargantua.
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