Golden Cinema

Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arrested McGargle proves her real parentage.

Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys "Boss'" happiness.

Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.

A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.

A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.

Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.

Woman inherits a traveling circus which brings financial difficulties.

In antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras.

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.

A vaudeville performer is murdered backstage and another performer is tried for the crime.

When an animal trapper in Indo-China finds that his daughter's fiancé is being successfully seduced by her estranged mother, he takes appropriate action.

A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.

Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.

Winnie Lightner, tomboy of the talkies [sic] stars in this comedy-drama as Pat, a traveling carnival troupe member who does everything from high diving to hula dancing, with time left over to romance meek and mild Sidney (Charles Butterworth) and try to save her younger sister, Irene (Evelyn Knapp), from a lecherous carny barker. The slapstick big-top finale is a highlight.

Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.

An Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair.

Dee Renaud is a girl playing the "Devil" in an amusement concession at a beach resort. Slick Glicks, the barker, promises the yokels that if they're able to catch the "Lady From Hell," she will reward them with a kiss. But when Glicks tries to go beyond kissing, Dee is rescued by Jim Coakley, son of a New England lighthouse keeper. She marries him out of gratitude and they move to his home on an island off the rockbound coast. Dee tries to convince Jim's salty old father, Pat, that she'll be a good and faithful wife. But she's a passionate woman with a bit of the devil in her, and she flirts with Jim's best friend Alf, who invites her to elope to Havana with him. When Pat is incapacitated, however, Dee loyally remains in the lighthouse to operate the beam and avert a shipwreck.

A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous baron who once betrayed him.

A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

Performers in a Budapest sideshow encounter love, greed, and murder.

The son of the sheik and a dancing girl fall in love, but when he is made to believe she has betrayed him he seeks revenge.

To make her lover jealous, a beautiful socialite passes off a bumbling plumber as her paramour.