The Side Show of Life
1924 film by Herbert Brenon
- July 21, 1924 (1924-07-21) (New York City)
- September 1, 1924 (1924-09-01) (Nationwide)
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The Side Show of Life is a 1924 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky, directed by Herbert Brenon and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on the 1920 novel The Mountebank by William J. Locke, which had been turned into a play by Ernest Denny.
Cast
- Ernest Torrence as Andrew Lackaday
- Anna Q. Nilsson as Lady Auriol Dayne
- Louise Lagrange as Elodie
- Maurice de Canonge as Horatio Bakkus (as Maurice Cannon)
- Neil Hamilton as Charles Verity-Stewart
- William Ricciardi as Mignon
- Mrs. Pozzi as Ernestine
- Lawrence D'Orsay as Sir Julius Verity-Stewart
- Effie Shannon as Lady Verity-Stewart
- Katherine Lee as Evadne
Production
Ernest Torrence stars in the role of a clown during World War I which is similar to that of Lon Chaney's in He Who Gets Slapped, released that same year, and in Laugh, Clown, Laugh, released four years later. Norman Trevor starred in the Broadway play in 1923.[1]
Preservation
A seemingly unobtainable print of The Side Show of Life survives in the Gosfilmofond archive, Moscow.[2]
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Side Show of Life.
- The Side Show of Life at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Original lobby poster The Side Show of Life
- Lobby poster
- Glass slide; coming attraction
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Films directed by Herbert Brenon
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- Sin (1915)
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- War Brides (1916)
- Whom the Gods Destroy (1916)
- The Eternal Sin (1917)
- The Lone Wolf (1917)
- The Fall of the Romanoffs (1917)
- Empty Pockets (1918)
- The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1918)
- Victory and Peace (1918)
- Quinneys (1919)
- 12.10 (1919)
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- The Mysterious Princess (1920)
- Little Sister (1921)
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- The Wonderful Thing (1921)
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- A Stage Romance (1922)
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- The Street of Forgotten Men (1925)
- A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
- The Song and Dance Man (1926)
- Dancing Mothers (1926)
- Beau Geste (1926)
- The Great Gatsby (1926)
- God Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926)
- The Telephone Girl (1927)
- Sorrell and Son (1927)
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
- The Rescue (1929)
- Lummox (1930)
- The Case of Sergeant Grisch (1930)
- Beau Ideal (1931)
- Transgression (1931)
- Girl of the Rio (1932)
- Wine, Women and Song (1933)
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- Honours Easy (1935)
- Living Dangerously (1936)
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