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The Merry-Go-Round

Crump's Colossal Combined Carnival Show barely survives financially by hiring thieves and pickpockets to rob customers. One day, clubman Jack Hamilton buys the circus when his car breaks down on his way to meet a deadline to avoid bankruptcy and he needs the circus tractor to haul his auto out of a ditch. Hamilton leads the circus to financial success and falls in love with Gypsy, the ticket-taker. To convince Jack to marry Gypsy, her supposed mother, fortune-teller Carlotta, says that she was kidnapped as a baby and shows Jack a photo in which he recognizes Gypsy's mother as the wife of Andrew Pomeroy, the financier who ruined him.

Top Cast

  • Peggy Hyland

    Peggy Hyland

    Gypsy / Susie Alice Pomeroy

  • Jack Mulhall

    Jack Mulhall

    Jack Hamilton

  • Edward Jobson

    Edward Jobson

    Ezekial Powers

  • Edwin B. Tilton

    Edwin B. Tilton

    Andrew Pomeroy

  • Vera Lewis

    Vera Lewis

    Mrs. Pomeroy

  • Bob Walker

    Bob Walker

    Charles Merryweather

  • Willard Louis

    Willard Louis

    Jerry Crump

  • Lule Warrenton

    Lule Warrenton

    Carlotta the Gypsy Queen

Overview

Crump's Colossal Combined Carnival Show barely survives financially by hiring thieves and pickpockets to rob customers. One day, clubman Jack Hamilton buys the circus when his car breaks down on his way to meet a deadline to avoid bankruptcy and he needs the circus tractor to haul his auto out of a ditch. Hamilton leads the circus to financial success and falls in love with Gypsy, the ticket-taker. To convince Jack to marry Gypsy, her supposed mother, fortune-teller Carlotta, says that she was kidnapped as a baby and shows Jack a photo in which he recognizes Gypsy's mother as the wife of Andrew Pomeroy, the financier who ruined him.

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