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Man on the Flying Trapeze is a american film of genre Comedy directed by W. C. Fields released in USA on 3 august 1935 with Mary Brian
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
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Add to a movie listMan on the Flying Trapeze is a 1935 comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a henpecked husband. As with his other roles of this nature, Fields is put-upon throughout the film, but triumphs in the end.
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Ambrose Wolfinger works as a "memory expert" for a manufacturing company's president; he keeps files of details about all the people President Malloy (Oscar Apfel) meets with, so that Malloy will never be embarrassed about not remembering things when meeting with them. Ambrose supports himself, his shrewish wife Leona (Kathleen Howard), his loving daughter Hope (from a previous marriage; played by Mary Brian), his freeloading brother-in-law Claude (Grady Sutton), and his abusive mother-in-law Cordelia (Vera Lewis).Actors
Mary Brian
(Hope Wolfinger)
W. C. Fields
(Ambrose Wolfinger)
Kathleen Howard
(Leona Wolfinger)
Grady Sutton
(Claude Neselrode)
Billy Bletcher
(Timekeeper (uncredited))
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