Under the Big Top (1938)
Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze star.
Top billed cast
Marjorie MainSara Post
Anne NagelPenny
Jack La RueRicardo Le Grande
Grant RichardsPablo Le Grande
George ClevelandJoe
Fred 'Snowflake' ToonesJuba
Herbert RawlinsonHerman
Charlene WyattPenny (as a child)
Harry HarveyMcCarthy
Betty CompsonMarie
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