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Under the Big Top is a 1938 American film directed by Karl Brown.
Cast Marjorie Main as Sara Post Anne Nagel as Penny Jack La Rue as Ricardo Le Grande Grant Richards as Pablo Le Grande Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Juba Betty Compson as Marie Herbert Rawlinson as Herman George Cleveland as Joe Rolfe Sedan as Pierre Charlene Wyatt as Penny - as a child Harry Harvey as McCarthy
Marjorie Main (February 24, 1890 -- April 10, 1975) was an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies.
Anne Nagel (September 29, 1915 -- July 6, 1966) was an American actress. She played in adventures, mysteries, and comedies for twenty-five years. She also appeared in television series in the 1950s.
Born as Anne Dolan in Boston, Massachusetts, Nagel's film career began in 1932 with a bit part as a ballet girl in Hypnotized. In 1936, she appeared in Here Comes Carter with Ross Alexander. A reviewer remarked of her performance, "she was just one of those girls who has learned to croon for the microphone, and let the rest of the world go hang." Her early roles were in such films as Footloose Heiress, Three Legionnaires, Torchy Blane, the Adventurous Blonde (all from 1937). She was in Mystery House (1938), Unexpected Father (1939), and Legion of Lost Flyers (1939).
In 1940, she appeared with W.C. Fields and Mae West in My Little Chickadee. Other feature movies from 1940 in which she had parts are Black Friday, Hot Steel, and Diamond Frontiers. She was often a heroine in horror films. Late in the 1940s she made The Spirit of West Point (1947). The film starred Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis. Nagel later worked on television in episodes of The Range Rider (1951) and Circus Boy (1957).
Jack La Rue (birth name: Gaspere Biondolillo) (May 3, 1902, New York City, New York - January 11, 1984, Santa Monica, California) was a film and stage actor.
He worked on the New York stage; the Internet Broadway Database lists seven Broadway credits for him from 1923 to 1931. He moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in numerous films. Sometimes mistaken for Humphrey Bogart, he played mostly thugs and gangsters. For example, in such a role, La Rue tormented the wrongly-accused Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures's anti-Nazi action drama Enemy Agent (1940).
He is the father of actor Jack La Rue, Jr. La Rue died of a heart attack at the age of 81 and was buried in Culver City, California.
Partial filmography Night World (1932) (uncredited) Virtue (1932) A Farewell to Arms (1932) Christopher Strong (1933) The Story of Temple Drake (1933) To the Last Man (1933) Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934) Special Agent (1935) Remember Last Night? (1935) Captains Courageous (1937) Charlie Chan in Panama (1940) Enemy Agent (1940) The Sea Hawk (1940) Footsteps in the Dark (1941) The Desert Song (1943) The Spanish Main (1945) Dakota (1945) Cornered (1945) Road to Utopia (1946) Murder in the Music Hall (1946) My Favorite Brunette (1947) No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) For Heaven's Sake (1950) Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
Betty Compson (March 19, 1897 -- April 18, 1974) was an American actress. Born Eleanor Luicime Compson in Beaver, Utah, she had an extensive filmography. As a youth her father died and she was forced to drop out of school and earn a living for herself and her mother. She obtained employment as a violinist in a Salt Lake City, Utah, theater.
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My Little Chickadee (1) Mae West 1940by jennifer100318,774 views
this is REAL circus,elephants,lions,liberty ponys,bring em back,chipperfiels,bertram mills ,you cant call em real circus's today.....good movie
jeanniedee1000 5 days ago
I liked it... it was made the year my mom was born : ) and Marjorie Main was a favorite of mine as a kid (Ma Kettle)... the ending was sad... for 1938 I thought it was good... *the ending re: the brother falling; he sacrificed himself so he wouldn't hurt Penny... as he had a hang-over from drinking because he had a broken heart...
caroleforJesus 1 week ago
Wow, the ending sucked. It was abrupt, made no sense and was totally unsatisfying. Poor Ricardo. No one really cared anything about him, even his own brother. *hugs him*
Still, thanks for the upload. It was an interesting film, though the plot was badly structured and most of the so-called 'sympathetic' characters were annoying and unlikeable. :D
magenta1000 7 months ago
I have seen only one real circus.I have seen congress and the senate on tv.
coolbreeze161 9 months ago