31 Aug 1938
Under the Big Top
Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze star.
Party Wire
Burning the scandal at both ends!
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Top Billed Cast
Jean Arthur Marge Oliver
Victor Jory Matthew Putnam
Helen Lowell Nettie Putnam
Charley Grapewin Will Oliver
Clara Blandick Mathilda Sherman
Geneva Mitchell Irene Sherman
Maude Eburne Clara West
Matt McHugh Bert West
Oscar Apfel Thomas P. Sherman
Robert Middlemass Judge Stephen Stephenson
Walter Brennan Paul - Railroad Telegrapher (uncredited)
Robert Allen Roy Daniels
Louise Carter Grandma Kern
Lillian Harmer Deborah
Adda Gleason Townswoman
Oliver Eckhardt Townsman
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