Romance ·Comedy · United States of America · 1935 · 1h 17m

Carnival

Director

Cast

Lee Tracy as Chick Thompson Sally Eilers as Daisy Jimmy Durante as Fingers Florence Rice as Miss Holbrook Thomas E. Jackson as Mac Dickie Walters as Poochy

Crew

Allen G. Siegler — Director of Photography Robert Riskin — Writer Samuel J. Briskin — Producer

Tagline

You'll Laugh with 'Em and at 'Em!

Synopsis

"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.

Key Collaborators

Walter Lang Director Allen G. Siegler Director of Photography Robert Riskin Writer Samuel J. Briskin Producer

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