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