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After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.
'Little Billy' Rhodes
- Half-Pint
- (as Little Billy)
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
- Eric
- (as Guinn Williams)
Jack Baxley
- Ringmaster
- (uncredited)
Phillip Crane
- Aerialist
- (uncredited)
Carmencita Johnson
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Seessel Anne Johnson
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Edward LeSaint
- Dr. Brownell
- (uncredited)
Frank McGlynn Sr.
- Head of Parish Board
- (uncredited)
Ray Milland
- Church Usher
- (uncredited)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAerialist stunts performed by Alfredo Codona and Vera Bruce.
- Quotes
Rev. John Hartley: How are you feeling?
Polly: How do you expect?
Rev. John Hartley: I came in as soon as the doctor would let me.
Polly: How are you? Not that I care a hoot, but just to keep the conversation going.
Rev. John Hartley: Very well, thank you.
Polly: That's too bad.
Rev. John Hartley: I want to tell you how sorry I am about the accident.
Polly: That makes it unanimous.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001)
- SoundtracksWedding of the Winds
(1897) (uncredited)
Music by John T. Hall
Played by the band during both trapeze acts
Featured review
Gorgeous Marion Davies
This is probably the weakest of Marion Davies' MGM talkies because of the story and the likely cuts (it runs only 70 minutes). But Davies is fine as the spunky circus girl who falls for a small-town parson (Clark Gable) despite all the warning signs.
Based on a 1906 Broadway play and the 1917 silent films version (which starred Mae Marsh), the story seems a tad old fashioned but in 1932 America was still largely rural and hick towns maintained their 19th century prejudices.
Anyway, Polly causes a sensation when the circus comes to town and the hicks cover up the pictures of her in her trapeze outfit with pieces of cloth. But they turn out for the show. When someone in the audience yells out something rude, she makes a mistake in her aerial act and falls to the ground. She's taken to the parson's house (because it's close by) to recuperate. They fall in love and get married.
But the hayseeds don't want a parson who's married to a circus girl and he loses his job. Convinced she's causing his career harm, she picks a fight and goes back to the circus. Will love win out over small-town prejudice?
Davies is very good and Gable (still a rising star at MGM) is ok as the parson. Raymond Hatton is snarky as the drunken caretaker, and Maude Eburne is good. There's also C. Aubrey Smith as Gable's uncle, David Landau as the circus manager, and Ray Milland has a small role as a church usher.
Worth a look.
Based on a 1906 Broadway play and the 1917 silent films version (which starred Mae Marsh), the story seems a tad old fashioned but in 1932 America was still largely rural and hick towns maintained their 19th century prejudices.
Anyway, Polly causes a sensation when the circus comes to town and the hicks cover up the pictures of her in her trapeze outfit with pieces of cloth. But they turn out for the show. When someone in the audience yells out something rude, she makes a mistake in her aerial act and falls to the ground. She's taken to the parson's house (because it's close by) to recuperate. They fall in love and get married.
But the hayseeds don't want a parson who's married to a circus girl and he loses his job. Convinced she's causing his career harm, she picks a fight and goes back to the circus. Will love win out over small-town prejudice?
Davies is very good and Gable (still a rising star at MGM) is ok as the parson. Raymond Hatton is snarky as the drunken caretaker, and Maude Eburne is good. There's also C. Aubrey Smith as Gable's uncle, David Landau as the circus manager, and Ray Milland has a small role as a church usher.
Worth a look.
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- Jan 22, 2023
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- Also known as
- Polly, la chica del circo
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- Budget
- $438,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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