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Spangles
Also known as Amores de Circo in Brazil; Det flyvende cirkus in Denmark; Crime no Circo in Portugal; Lentejuelas in Spain; Flygande cirkusen in Sweden
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5633 feet
Directed by Frank O’Connor

Cast: Marian Nixon [‘Spangles’ Delancy], Pat O’Malley [Dick Hale, also known as Dick Radley], Hobart Bosworth [Robert ‘Big Bill’ Bowman], Gladys Brockwell [Mademoiselle Dazie], Jay Emmett [?] [Vincent or Jack Milford]?, James Conly [?] [Zip or Biff?, the halfwit], Grace Gordon [Davidina, the bearded lady], Paul Howard [the armless man], Tiny Ward [Goliath, the giant], Charles Becker [Little Tommy Tumtack, the dwarf], Nelle B. Lane (Nellie Lane) [the fat woman], Clarence Wertz [Rawlins], Harry Schultz [the strong man], Herbert Shelly [‘Skeleton’], Walter Brennan [the lunch counter man], Joe Martin the chimpanzee

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal-Jewel]. / Produced by Arthur T. Beck. Scenario by Leah Baird, from an adaptation by Hugh Hoffman of the play Spangles by Nellie Revell. Cinematography by André Barlatier. Intertitles written by Walter Anthony. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 25 August 1926 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP23055]. Released 7 November 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in Denmark as Det flyvende cirkus on 10 January 1927. The film was released in Sweden as Flygande cirkusen on 18 March 1927. The film was released in Portugal as Crime no Circo on 15 November 1929.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Circuses

Listing updated: 9 May 2020.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 53 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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