The Merry-Go-Round
Cast & Crew
Edmund Lawrence
Peggy Hyland
Jack Mulhall
Edward Jobson
Edwin B. Tilton
Vera Lewis
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Crump's Colossal Combined Carnival Show barely survives financially by hiring thieves and pickpockets to rob customers. One day, the circus is bought by clubman Jack Hamilton when his car breaks down enroute to meet a deadline to avoid bankruptcy, and he needs the circus tractor to get his auto out of a ditch. Hamilton leads the circus to financial success and falls in love with Gypsy, the ticket-taker. To convince Jack to marry Gypsy, her supposed mother, the fortune-teller Carlotta, says that she was kidnapped as a baby and shows Jack a photo in which he recognizes Gypsy's mother as the wife of Andrew Pomeroy, the financier who ruined him. Gypsy's subsequent life with her real parents is miserable since they find her lack of manners offensive and try to get her to marry a cousin, but Jack rescues her and the minute she turns eighteen, marries her, with the Pomeroys' belated consent.
Director
Edmund Lawrence
Cast
Peggy Hyland
Jack Mulhall
Edward Jobson
Edwin B. Tilton
Vera Lewis
Robert Walker
Willard Louis
Lule Warrenton
Joe Martin
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Sources conflict concerning the writer of the story. While reviews and news items credit Richard Washburn Child with the original story, the copyright entry and 1921 MPSD credit Philip E. Hubbard. Joe Martin, the popular film chimpanzee, appeared in this film.
