At the Circus (1939)

Directed by

Edward Buzzell

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 97 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The Marx Brothers help a circus owner who is in danger of losing his business to a greedy banker. They use their antics and schemes to raise money and put on a show.

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What happens

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. The songs, including "Lydia the Tattooed Lady", "Two Blind Loves", and "Step Up and Take a Bow", were written by the team of Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, who'd recently furnished the songs for another MGM film that same year, The Wizard of Oz. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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