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Carnival

  • 19351935
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 17m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
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Jimmy Durante, Sally Eilers, and Lee Tracy in Carnival (1935)
  • Comedy
  • Romance
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather su... Read all"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years... Read all"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that t... Read all
IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • Walter Lang
  • Writer
    • Robert Riskin(story)
  • Stars
    • Lee Tracy
    • Sally Eilers
    • Jimmy Durante
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  • Director
    • Walter Lang
  • Writer
    • Robert Riskin(story)
  • Stars
    • Lee Tracy
    • Sally Eilers
    • Jimmy Durante
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    Lee Tracy
    Lee Tracy
    • Chick Thompsonas Chick Thompson
    Sally Eilers
    Sally Eilers
    • Daisyas Daisy
    Jimmy Durante
    Jimmy Durante
    • Fingersas Fingers
    Florence Rice
    Florence Rice
    • Miss Holbrookas Miss Holbrook
    Thomas E. Jackson
    Thomas E. Jackson
    • Macas Mac
    • (as Thomas Jackson)
    Dickie Walters
    • Poochyas Poochy
    • (as John Richard Walters)
    Corra Beach
    • Womanas Woman
    • (as Cora Beach Shumway uncredited)
    John Aasen
    John Aasen
    • Circus Giantas Circus Giant
    • (uncredited)
    Ernie Adams
    Ernie Adams
    • Barkeras Barker
    • (uncredited)
    Betty Alden
    Betty Alden
    • Nurseas Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    Oscar Apfel
    Oscar Apfel
    • Mr. Lawsonas Mr. Lawson
    • (uncredited)
    Jessie Arnold
    Jessie Arnold
    • Womanas Woman
    • (uncredited)
    Lucille Ball
    Lucille Ball
    • Nurseas Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    Helen Barclay
    • Nurseas Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    T. Roy Barnes
    T. Roy Barnes
    • Salesmanas Salesman
    • (uncredited)
    Arthur Belasco
    • Guardas Guard
    • (uncredited)
    Stanley Blystone
    Stanley Blystone
    • Detectiveas Detective
    • (uncredited)
    Wade Boteler
    Wade Boteler
    • Sheriffas Sheriff
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Walter Lang
    • Writer
      • Robert Riskin(story) (screenplay)
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    5/10
    Funny Men Misused in Baby Sob Story
    Technically, this is a comedy (happy ending, funny dialogue), but it's a pretty soggy one. Lee Tracy, the screen's peerless impersonator of fast-talking, wisecracking flim-flam men, is Chick, a carny showman whose wife dies in childbirth and whose anxieties about bringing up baby expose us to lots of lectures about bottles and thermometers. Jimmy Durante, whose talent is for demolishing order and breaking up the joint, assists Tracy in baby care, helping him put up a front of respectability for the baby-snatchers from the Children's Society. These harpies pursue Tracy with such assiduity over the years you would think his name was Chick Valjean.

    Chick learns that a wife would make him genuinely respectable, but his worries prevent him seeing that sweet Sally Eilers, who is besotted with both him and his baby, is the one for him. The performers are all appealing, and the baby isn't too hard to take, but the script is pretty lame, and the whole enterprise feels damped down by the enforced pathos and the submission of the two comics' raucous personalities to these nice-guy parts.
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    • Release date
      • February 15, 1935 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Worlds Fair
    • Filming locations
      • Mack Sennett Studios - 1712 Glendale Blvd., Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Columbia Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 17 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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