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At the Circus

Year:
Duration:
87 min
Genres:
Comedy | Musical
IMDB rate:
6.9
Director:
Edward Buzzell
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1939-10-20
Filming Locations: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
At the Circus
Chico Marx
Antonio
Harpo Marx
'Punchy'
Kenny Baker
Jeff Wilson
Florence Rice
Julie Randall
Eve Arden
Peerless Pauline
Margaret Dumont
Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury
Nat Pendleton
Goliath
Fritz Feld
Jardinet
James Burke
John Carter
Jerry Maren
Little Professor Atom (as Jerry Marenghi)
Barnett Parker
Whitcomb
Irving Bacon
Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)
Willie Best
Redcap (uncredited)
John Binns
Old Man (uncredited)
Henry Blair
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
George Bookasta
Member of Quarttete (uncredited)
James Conaty
Party Guest (uncredited)
Frank Darien
Telegrapher (uncredited)
Dudley Dickerson
Singer / Dancer - 'Swingali' (uncredited)
Betsy Gay
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Charles Gemora
Gibraltar
John George
Little Man Leaving Diner (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
Conductor (uncredited)
Payne B. Johnson
Boy at Circus (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
Club Car Train Passenger (uncredited)
Buck Mack
Checkers Player (uncredited)
Murdock MacQuarrie
Attendant (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
Cabbie (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer
Governor (uncredited)
Forbes Murray
Captain (uncredited)
Frank Orth
Chef in Diner (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Ringmaster (uncredited)
Lillian Randolph
Black Woman - 'Swingali' (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Party Guest (uncredited)
Fred Walburn
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Robert Winkler
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
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Trivia
The Marx Brothers had been out of favor at MGM since the sudden death in 1936 of their producer and benefactor Irving Thalberg during the production of A Day at the Races (1937). So in the middle of the production of this film, longtime Thalberg rival Louis B. Mayer removed songwriters Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg from this film and reassigned them to the "prestige" MGM production The Wizard of Oz (1939).
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Originally entitled "A Day at the Circus", it was to be the third in The Marx Brothers' "Day/Night" series after A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937).
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Groucho Marx was fond of recounting how the original owner of the "gorilla skin" used in the film was so incensed when the stunt man wearing it poked ventilation holes in it with an ice pick that he took his suit and walked off the picture, forcing the producers to hastily rent an orangutan skin as a replacement. For this reason, Groucho claimed, the gorilla gets bigger and smaller from shot to shot. The man in the gorilla suit is in fact Charles Gemora, well-known movie sculptor and gorilla artist, wearing his own custom-made suit.
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Goofs
Multiple different-sized actors, in noticeably different gorilla costumes, were used to play Gibraltar the gorilla.
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When the little boy is "playing" his trumpet solo (and Harpo is using the bulb of his bicycle horn as a wah-wah mute), not only are the boy's fingerings incorrect, they are out of synch with the sequence of notes. Harpo's use of the "mute" is likewise out of synch.
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When Jeff first gets on the train, his badge keeps changing position on his coat.
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Quotes
J. Cheever Loophole: I'll grill her until she's well done! She must know something about this case.
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J. Cheever Loophole: I bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.
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Antonio Pirelli: If you please, Mistah Carter?
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Photos from cast
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