Circus Days
1923 film by Edward F. Cline, Harry Weil
Circus Days is a 1923 American silent comedy film starring child actor Jackie Coogan, directed by Eddie Cline, produced by Sol Lesser and Jackie Coogan's own production company, and distributed through Associated First National Pictures. It is based on the 1877 novel Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis.
01Cast
- Jackie Coogan as Toby Tyler
- Barbara Tennant as Ann Tyler
- Russell Simpson as Eben Holt
- Claire McDowell as Martha
- Cesare Gravina as Luigi, the Clown
- Peaches Jackson as Jeannette
- Sam De Grasse as Lord the Concessionaire
- DeWitt Jennings as Daly
- Nellie Lane as Fat Woman
- William Barlow as Human Skeleton, 'World's Skinniest Man'
02Release
Circus Days premiered at Metropolitan Theater in Hermosa Beach on June 27, 1923. Cast members and producer Sol Lesser were in attendance.
03Preservation status
Circus Days had been considered a lost film, but a print survived in Russia. It was digitally presented to the Library of Congress from Russian archive Godmosfilm in 2010 along with several other lost silent films.
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Circus Days lobby card.jpg by First National Pictures, Public domain
- Rialto Theater - Allentown PA - 1923.jpg by Hellerich, Mahlon H, and Pennsylvania Lehigh County Historical Society Allentown. Allentown, 1762-1987 : a 225-year history. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Lehigh County Historical Society, 1987, Public domain
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