The Merry-Go-Round (1919)
Crump's Colossal Combined Carnival Show barely survives financially by hiring thieves and pickpockets to rob customers. One day, clubman Jack Hamilton buys the circus when his car breaks down on his way to meet a deadline to avoid bankruptcy and he needs the circus tractor to haul his auto out of a ditch. Hamilton leads the circus to financial success and falls in love with Gypsy, the ticket-taker. To convince Jack to marry Gypsy, her supposed mother, fortune-teller Carlotta, says that she was kidnapped as a baby and shows Jack a photo in which he recognizes Gypsy's mother as the wife of Andrew Pomeroy, the financier who ruined him.
Director: Edmund Lawrence
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Peggy Hyland as Gypsy / Susie Alice Pomeroy |
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Jack Mulhall as Jack Hamilton |
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Edward Jobson as Ezekial Powers |
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Edwin B. Tilton as Andrew Pomeroy |
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Vera Lewis as Mrs. Pomeroy |
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Bob Walker as Charles Merryweather |
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Willard Louis as Jerry Crump |
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Lule Warrenton as Carlotta the Gypsy Queen |
| Directing | Edmund Lawrence | Director |
| Writing | Douglas Bronston | Scenario Writer |
| Camera | Frank B. Good | Director of Photography |