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Polly of the Circus

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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?

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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
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Alfred Santell

Director

Marion Davies

Polly Fisher

Clark Gable

Reverend John Hartley

C. Aubrey Smith

Reverend James Northcott

Raymond Hatton

Downey, Harley's Servant

David Landau

Beef
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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
Producer
Marion Davies
Screenwriter
Laurence E. Johnson, Margaret Mayo, Carey Wilson
Distributor
Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.
Production Co
Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions, Cosmopolitan Pictures
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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