Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Home > All films > Films Drama > Polly of the Circus
Polly of the Circus is a american film of genre Drama directed by Charles Horan released in USA on 8 september 1917 with Mae Marsh

Polly of the Circus (1917)

Polly of the Circus
If you like this film, let us know!
Released in USA 8 september 1917
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating67% 3.383073.383073.383073.383073.38307

Polly of the Circus is a 1917 American silent drama film notable as the first film produced by Samuel Goldwyn after founding his studio Goldwyn Pictures. This film starred Mae Marsh, usually an actress for D.W. Griffith, but now under contract to Goldwyn for a series of films. The film was based on a 1907 Broadway play by Margaret Mayo which starred Mabel Taliaferro. Presumably when MGM remade the film in 1932 with Marion Davies, they still owned the screen rights inherited from the 1924 merger by Marcus Lowe of Metro, Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer studios.

This film marks the first appearance of Slats, the lion mascot of Goldwyn Pictures and (after the company's 1924 merger) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Synopsis

As described in a film magazine, the parents of Polly (Marsh), a little horseback rider, are dead, and circus performers Jim (Playter) and Toby (Eldridge) are her sponsors. One night while performing Polly is thrown from her horse and injured. She is taken to the home of parson John Douglas (Steele), and the circus is forced to leave without her. The parson finds in Polly someone different than anyone in his flock, but his liking for the circus rider does not please the members of the congregation. They force Polly to leave and she reenters the circus, but thoughts of the parson make her unhappy. After a year's separation, the circus comes to town again. Douglas has not forgotten his little circus performer, and one night he goes to the tent to visit her. She tries to send him away, but he will not go. The circus tents catch fire, and in the general confusion and wreckage, Douglas and Jim bring Polly to safety. In the arms of the parson, Polly bids her circus friends goodbye.

Actors

Mae Marsh

(Polly)Vernon Steele

(John Douglas the Minister)Wellington A. Playter

(Big Jim, Boss Canvasman)Charles Eldridge

(Toby the Clown)Lucille La Verne

(Mandy)Viola Compton

(Jane, the widow)
Trailer of Polly of the Circus

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Polly of the Circus

There are 101 films with the same actors, 6 films with the same director, 61741 with the same cinematographic genres, 4292 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Polly of the Circus, you will probably like those similar films :
Orphans of the Storm
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
, 2h30
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, La cécité, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Lucille La Verne, Frank Losee, Frank Puglia
Rating72% 3.6445853.6445853.6445853.6445853.644585
Just before the French Revolution, Henriette takes her close adopted sister Louise to Paris in the hope of finding a cure for her blindness. She promises Louise that she will not marry until Louise can look upon her husband to approve him. Lustful aristocrat de Praille (whose carriage kills a child, enraging peasant father, Forget-not) meets the two outside Paris. Taken by the virginal Henriette's beauty, he has her abducted and brought to his estate where a lavish party is being held, leaving Louise helpless in the big city. An honorable aristocrat, the Chevalier de Vaudrey helps Henriette to escape de Praille and his guests by successfully fighting a duel with him. The scoundrel Mother Frochard, seeing an opportunity to make money, tricks Louise into her underground house to be kept prisoner. Unable to find Louise with the help of the Chevalier, Henriette rents a room, but before leaving her de Vaudrey comforts and kisses the distressed woman. Later, Henriette gives shelter to admirable politician Danton, who after an attack by Royalist spies following a public speech falls for her. As a result, she runs foul of the radical revolutionary Robespierre, a friend of Danton.
The Escape
The Escape (1914)

Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Donald Crisp, Robert Harron, Earle Foxe, Lew Landers, Ralph Lewis, Mae Marsh
Rating59% 2.962462.962462.962462.962462.96246
The film begins with a short prologue explaining the science of Eugenics; contrasting the careful selection observed in the animal world with the less predictable breeding habits of humans. This is illustrated by the story of the Joyce family, headed by Jim Joyce (Turner), a cruel and senseless man. Joyce's son Larry (Harron) is by nature a sensitive kid, but Jim Joyce turns him into a heartless monster, strangling a cat as a sort of coming of age ritual.
Zaza
Zaza (1923)
, 1h6
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Gloria Swanson, H. B. Warner, Lucille La Verne, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Mary Thurman, Yvonne Hughes
Rating65% 3.2915653.2915653.2915653.2915653.291565
La belle Zaza, actrice de théâtre parisien est la vedette principale de la revue. Elle séduit un diplomate français Bernard Dufresne, qui l'emmène avec lui et l'installe dans une luxueuse villa de la capitale, ainsi une grande histoire d'amour naît. Une rivale jalouse informe Zaza que Bernard possède une famille, folle de douleur elle quitte son amant. Quelques années plus tard, la guerre éclate et Bernard est tué au combat ; Zaza décide alors de faire connaissance avec sa famille…
Compromising Daphne
Compromising Daphne (1930)
, 1h26
Directed by Thomas Bentley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Phyllis Konstam, Viola Compton, Leo Sheffield, Barbara Gott, Margot Grahame

A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents.
Sinners' Holiday
Sinners' Holiday (1930)
, 1h
Directed by John G. Adolfi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Grant Withers, Evalyn Knapp, James Cagney, Lucille La Verne, Joan Blondell, Noel Madison
Rating62% 3.146173.146173.146173.146173.14617
Ma Delano (Lucille La Verne) runs a penny arcade on an amusement pier at Coney Island with her children Jennie, Joe, and Harry (Evalyn Knapp, Ray Gallagher and James Cagney). Underneath La Verne's establishment, Mitch McKane (Warren Hymer) is running a bootleg operation. In order to escape detection, McKane doubles as a sideshow operator.
The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
, 2h37
Directed by Monte Blue, Jack Conway, Erich von Stroheim, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Harron, Joseph Henabery, George Siegmann, Donald Crisp, Allan Dwan, D. W. Griffith, W. S. Van Dyke, Raoul Walsh, Elmer Clifton, Christy Cabanne, Tom Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Horror, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about racism, Musical films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann
Rating60% 3.049043.049043.049043.049043.04904
The film follows two juxtaposed families: the Northern Stonemans—abolitionist Congressman Austin Stoneman, based on the Reconstruction-era Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, his two sons and his daughter Elsie—and the Southern Camerons, a family including two daughters, Margaret and Flora, and three sons, most notably Ben.