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Auction History Result 5z0775 SIDE SHOW OF LIFE herald 1924 clown Ernest Torrence, Anna Q. Nilsson, great circus images! Date Sold 10/1/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Herald (measures 3 1/2" x 5" [9 x 13 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) The Side Show of Life, the 1924 Herbert Brenon silent circus melodrama ("A stirring drama of circus and society life"; "The story of a clown who became a famous man of valor."; "From William J. Locke's famous novel and the play by Ernest Denny 'The Mountebank'"; a really wacky melodrama about an English orphan who becomes a famous French clown; he runs into an English Lady when she runs over his trained dog with her car!; at the start of World War I, the clown enlists and works his way up to Brigadier General!; after the war, he becomes a clown again, but he is no longer funny, but the crowd supports him because he was a war hero; he ends up emigrating to Australia, and discovers that the English Lady is on board, intending to go with him! Note that director Herbert Brenon obviously loved sad melodramatic clowns, because he later directed Lon Chaney Sr. in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh") starring Ernest Torrence (as "Lackaday the Clown"), Anna Q. Nilsson (as "Lady Auriol"), Louise Lagrange, Maurice de Canonge, Neil Hamilton, and William Ricciardi NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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