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Make-Up (1937)

Make-Up poster
Directed by
Alfred Zeisler
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 12m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A circus clown navigates his personal and professional life. The film follows his relationships and struggles behind the scenes of the big top.

sentimentalcircusromanticsoberperiodbackstageyearningcharacter-driven

What happens

Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios. The story is based on a novel by Hans Mahner-Mons, which had previously been adapted into the 1935 film Bux the Clown. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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