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      Polly of the Circus

      Released Feb 27, 1932 1h 9m Drama List
      Reviews 0% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings The arrival of a circus raises eyebrows in a tiny New England town. When gorgeous trapeze artist Polly Fisher (Marion Davies) discovers that the racy billboards for her show have been painted over, she accuses local minister John Hartley (Clark Gable) of censorship. That night, an angry Fisher falls during a performance -- only to awaken in a makeshift recovery room in Hartley's home. As the minister cares for the wounded Fisher, the two begin to fall in love. But what will the town think? Read More Read Less

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      Steve D Frustrating but the end is satisfying. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/10/23 Full Review Nadya R Marion Davies was so eminently off-putting and Gable, (never so smarmy) was obviously trapped in this bore-a-thon, it's not worth watching, even as a curiosity. What WAS L.B. Mayer (or Randolph Hearst) thinking? Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Dull circus drama about trapeze artist Marion Davies (the real-life girlfriend of William Randolph Hearst) falling for priest Clark Gable. Davies is so-so and I've never really cared for Gable, but I was hoping for some circus hokum and didn't even get much of that. There are some Tod Browning-like circus moments early in the film, which was promising, but it was really just a dull romance story between the dull leads. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis The arrival of a circus raises eyebrows in a tiny New England town. When gorgeous trapeze artist Polly Fisher (Marion Davies) discovers that the racy billboards for her show have been painted over, she accuses local minister John Hartley (Clark Gable) of censorship. That night, an angry Fisher falls during a performance -- only to awaken in a makeshift recovery room in Hartley's home. As the minister cares for the wounded Fisher, the two begin to fall in love. But what will the town think?
      Director
      Alfred Santell
      Screenwriter
      Laurence E. Johnson, Margaret Mayo, Carey Wilson
      Distributor
      Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.
      Production Co
      Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Cosmopolitan Pictures, Cosmopolitan Productions
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Feb 27, 1932, Wide
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Sep 7, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 9m
      Sound Mix
      Mono
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