Under the Big Top

August. 31,1938      NR
Rating:
5.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze star.

Marjorie Main as  Sara Post
Anne Nagel as  Penny
Jack La Rue as  Ricardo Le Grande
Grant Richards as  Pablo Le Grande
George Cleveland as  Joe
Herbert Rawlinson as  Herman
Charlene Wyatt as  Penny (as a child)
Harry Harvey as  McCarthy
Betty Compson as  Marie

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