---
title: 'At the Circus (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Edward Buzzell'
released: '1939-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 83
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/at-the-circus-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031060/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# At the Circus (1939)

1939 · 83 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

At the Circus is a 1939 comedy film starring the Marx Brothers released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they help save a circus from bankruptcy. The film contains Groucho Marx's classic rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady". The supporting cast includes Florence Rice, Kenny Baker, Margaret Dumont, and Eve Arden. The songs, including "Lydia the Tattooed Lady", "Two Blind Loves", and "Step Up and Take a Bow", were written by the team of Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, who'd recently furnished the songs for another MGM film that same year, The Wizard of Oz.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Edward Buzzell](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-buzzell)
- **Screenplay:** [Ben Hecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-hecht), [Irving Brecher](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-brecher)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Harold Arlen](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-arlen)
- **Producer:** [Mervyn LeRoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/mervyn-leroy)
- **Director of Photography:** [Leonard Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonard-smith)
- **Editor:** [William H. Terhune](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-h-terhune)

## Cast

- [Nat Pendleton](https://cinepixo.com/people/nat-pendleton)
- [John George](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-george)
- [Charles Gemora](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-gemora)
- [Chico Marx](https://cinepixo.com/people/chico-marx)
- [Fritz Feld](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-feld)
- [Lillian Randolph](https://cinepixo.com/people/lillian-randolph)
- [Groucho Marx](https://cinepixo.com/people/groucho-marx)
- [Florence Rice](https://cinepixo.com/people/florence-rice)
- [Edmund Mortimer](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-mortimer)
- [Kenny Baker](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenny-baker)
- [Eve Arden](https://cinepixo.com/people/eve-arden)
- [James Burke](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-burke)
- [Margaret Dumont](https://cinepixo.com/people/margaret-dumont)
- [Harpo Marx](https://cinepixo.com/people/harpo-marx)
- [Kenny Baker](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenny-baker-2)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/at-the-circus-1939
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