Carnival Lady

Watch Movie

Carnival Lady

1933

1h 4m

6.0(2 votes)

Drama

Overview

When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée deserts him, too. With few options, he joins a traveling carnival and begins a new life.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Cast & Crew

16 members

Acting

Boots Mallory

Penny Lee

Acting

Allen Vincent

Tom Warren

Acting

Donald Kerr

Dick

Acting

Rollo Lloyd

Harry

Acting

Jason Robards Sr.

Jim Ryan

Acting

Gertrude Astor

Zandra, Fortune Teller

Acting

Anita Faye

Trixie

No Image

Acting

Rich Hayes

P.T. 'Porky' Owens

No Image

Acting

Earl McDonald

Carl

No Image

Acting

Kit Guard

Gorilla Watson

Acting

Patrick Cunning

Guest

No Image

Acting

Isabel La Mal

Guest

Acting

Charles McAvoy

Detective

Acting

Rose Plumer

Woman Having Palm Read

No Image

Acting

Angelo Rossitto

Dwarf

Acting

Rolfe Sedan

Carnival Barker

Similar Movies

7.5

Dada

The owner of a failing circus has to cope with the return of her son after he is released from the psychiatric hospital with complete loss of memory.

Movie

7.0

1986

Barnum

The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.

Movie

7.3

2021

Freaks Out

Four super-powered circus freaks find themselves trapped in war-torn Rome after their foster father is captured by the Nazis.

Movie

4.4

2018

The Great Mystical Circus

The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s up to the early 21st century, following both the family and the circus from their prime through to their decadence.

Movie

7.1

1926

The Devil's Circus

In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast life of crime. Before long, his fate intersects with that of Mary, a devout orphan, prompting a romance and a reevaluation.

Movie

6.0

1989

Joshilaay

Dara and Karan, the sons of two of the victims of dacoit Jogi Thakur, wait many years to exact their revenge. When the Thakur's colleague Raja Singh cheats him and runs away with his loot, Jogi is arrested and sentenced for life imprisonment. Years later Jogi escapes from the prison to get hold of Raja and take back his booty, but finds his face on all the posters in the village to find him dead or alive with a reward of fifty thousand rupees. When Karan gets to know Jogi has escaped he goes looking for him. Dara also join hands with Karan to even the score with the dreaded dacoit.

Movie

8.5

1967

Arena

In one of the occupied European cities, the commandant of the garrison gathers a troupe of circus performers. Coming from different countries, they are in the humiliating position of people forced to serve their enslavers. Many of them, recruited from camps and workhouses, were quite content with their lot. Only after a chain of subsequent events, the artists raise an uprising. Unarmed people are not able to resist the arrived guards. They die, but at the cost of their lives they regain their lost human dignity.

Movie

5.8

1954

Ring of Fear

Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.

Movie

6.2

1935

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.

Movie

Plauto, Distorted Memory of an Eventual Fool

5.6

2004

Plauto, Distorted Memory of an Eventual Fool

Plauto, the clown, tells us the story of the Circo de las Alegrías. Doña Alegría, owner of the Circus is determined that her son Palevhi, maintain the classic line of the show, which begs for a complete renovation. During the last years, the Circus has been dragging like a dying man until the threat of bankruptcy and unemployment has led his workers to anguish. One night in September, Palevhi decides to inform the big family of the circus the final closure. Tears of frustration give way to the search for solutions.

Movie

5.6

1932

Polly of the Circus

When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.

Movie

10.0

2022

Balloon Animal

Poppy Valentine, a young circus performer who has grown up in her family's traveling circus, has never dreamed of what life would be like outside of its fences. However, now in her mid-20s and with more unwelcomed responsibility weighing her down, she's desperate to figure out if this life is for her.

Movie

5.9

1918

Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent

Paula is a circus performer married to the alcoholic clown-acrobat Lorio. Lorio's heavy drinking leads to him being severely injured during a performance. This forces Paula and the now-crippled Lorio to become street musicians. This film formerly ran to 81 minutes – regrettably, the second half is considered lost.

Movie

4.0

1962

The Main Attraction

An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.

Movie

6.0

2015

Victor Frankenstein

Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

Movie

7.1

2019

Saving Flora

Flora is a circus elephant who can no longer perform her tricks. The night before she's scheduled to be euthanized, the circus owner's 14-year old daughter, Dawn, sneaks Flora from the circus. All that stands between them and the safety of the elephant preserve is two hundred kilometers of woods, one raging river, two elephant hunters and the fear of not making it.

Movie

7.5

1957

Gutta-Percha Boy

The end of the XIX century. Petya, an eight-year orphan who has been cast in training German acrobat Karl Becker, who curses and beatings would incorporate the new assistant to the circus profession and ruthlessly exploited child in their speeches. The only consolation, brightens the harsh life gutta-percha boy, as referred to Petya on the posters, is the concern of the carpet clown Edwards, who regretted the fatherless and secretly taught him this circus arts...

Movie

4.3

2013

Intimate Parts

Residents of a big city, each of whom has their own sexual problems and desires, secret and, most often, shameful from the point of view of society, need to solve them. Each of the characters tries to solve their problems in their own way: someone sublimates them, someone turns to a psychotherapist for help, someone rushes into experiments... but sooner or later they all return to where they started, and they have to overcome themselves again and again to get at least a little, even a millimeter closer to their happiness.

Movie

7.5

1999

The First of May

Cory is a foster child nobody wants. Carlota is an elderly woman the world has forgotten. Together, they find friendship and family when they join a traveling circus. Also features Mickey Rooney and Joe DiMaggio, in his last screen appearance.

Movie

5.0

1955

The Green Music Box

Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido, Ruriko hasn't heard from him. The only thing that reminded her of his warmth was the green music box that he’d left behind for her. She longed to reunite with her father. The little box played music that lifted her spirits, to a place where everything was perfect.

Movie

Recommended Movies

6.3

1964

Circus World

Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother.

Movie

6.9

2006

Flicka

Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.

Movie

6.9

1974

Where the Red Fern Grows

Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.

Movie

7.2

1947

Nightmare Alley

A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.

Movie

7.0

1950

The Damned Don't Cry

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

Movie

7.9

2017

The Greatest Showman

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Movie

7.3

1969

True Grit

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.

Movie

6.0

2011

A Second Chance

A young girl and her coach overcome adversity to make their way into the National Australian Gymnastics Squad.

Movie

6.6

2015

Hungry Hearts

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

Movie

6.9

2025

Eleanor the Great

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

Movie

6.1

2012

Fast Girls

A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

Movie

6.1

2012

Won't Back Down

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.

Movie

7.3

2012

Imagine

A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.

Movie

7.4

1980

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.

Movie

6.4

2011

Return

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

Movie

6.5

2024

Anuja

When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.

Movie

6.3

2003

Where the Red Fern Grows

Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with "Old Dan" and "Little Ann."

Movie

6.7

2020

All Together Now

An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?

Movie

7.1

2020

PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue

A royal relative steals a gem with the power to make things fly, the Paw Patrol takes to the skies to stop him and save Barkingburg.

Movie

7.8

2003

Big Fish

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

Movie