Carnival Lady
Cast & Crew
Howard Higgin
Boots Mallory
Allen Vincent
Donald Kerr
Rollo Lloyd
Gertrude Astor
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
On his wedding day, Tom Warren learns from a radio announcement that he has lost his fortune because his bank's president has absconded with the bank's funds and the bank has crashed. When his fiancée deserts him, Tom leaves his apartment and the party there, and travels to a nearby town, where he comes to a carnival. He teams up with Dick, a former boxer, and Harry, a pickpocket, and they infuriate a hot dog vendor. After they are befriended by Penny, a singer and dancer who does the come-on act for one of the sideshows, Dick is hired as a barker, Harry gets work in the kitchen, and Tom dons a mask and replaces high diver Jim Ryan, the ace act in the show, who had annoyed Penny and got hurt doing a dive. Tom and Penny become romantically involved and decide to marry, but when the show comes to Tom's hometown and she meets his former friends, she becomes disturbed by the difference in their social strata. After one of Tom's friends offers him a good job in the city and Tom turns him down, his friends convince Penny to break the engagement. She then pretends to go back to Ryan, who has returned, so that Tom will leave the carnival. When Dick sees Penny with Ryan, he fights Ryan, who dies when his head strikes a trunk. After Tom, impersonating Ryan, schemes with Dick and Harry to make it appear that Ryan was killed diving into a tank, Tom learns the reason for Penny's refusal to marry him and they reconcile. He induces her to leave the carnival, and his friends accept her and realize that they had formed the wrong opinion of her.
Director
Howard Higgin
Cast
Boots Mallory
Allen Vincent
Donald Kerr
Rollo Lloyd
Gertrude Astor
Anita Faye
Richard Hayes
Earl Mcdonald
Kit Guard
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Boots Mallory was a former WAMPAS (Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers) Baby Star, a designation given each year between 1922 and 1934 to thirteen girls thought most likely to succeed in films. According to Variety, Donald Kerr was a vaudeville performer in the team of Kerr and Weston; carnival scenes were shot in a real carnival, not at a studio; and the film's release came at about the same time as Fox's carnival story Hoopla (see below).
