Film

The Merry-Go-Round

1919 · 50m · Comedy · Drama

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.

Peggy Hyland

Gypsy / Susie Alice Pomeroy

Jack Mulhall

Jack Hamilton

Edward Jobson

Ezekial Powers

Edwin B. Tilton

Andrew Pomeroy

Vera Lewis

Mrs. Pomeroy

Bob Walker

Charles Merryweather

Willard Louis

Jerry Crump

Lule Warrenton

Carlotta the Gypsy Queen

• Edmund LawrenceDirector
• Frank B. GoodDirector of Photography

Release date

September 21, 1919

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

50m

Genres

Comedy, Drama