The Circus (1936) movie

Vaudeville dancer Marion Dixon is with her German manager von Kneischitz on tour - in Moskau. Her act includes a gun shooting her to the trapeze, the stage director there wants a copy of this act for the USSR. She falls in love with a Soviet enginer, but von Kneischitz blackmails her with her dark spot in her life, she has a colored baby, to leave Moskau. The Circus (1936) movie Genres: Comedy, Musical Production Co: Mosfilm Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov Writing Credits: Grigori Aleksandrov, Isaak Babel (dialogue), Ilya Ilf, Valentin Kataev, Yevgeni Petrov Music by Isaak Dunayevsky Cinematography by Vladimir Nilsen, Boris Petrov Cast: Lyubov Orlova as Marion Dixon Evgeniya Melnikova as Rayechka, the director’s daughter Vladimir Volodin as Ludvig, circus director Sergei Stolyarov as Ivan Petrovich Martinov Pavel Massalsky as Kneishitz Aleksandr Komissarov as Skamejkin N. Otto as Chaplin Jim Patterson as Jimmy, Marion’s son Fyodor Kur