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  • The Merry-Go-Round (1919)
  • 50 min | Comedy, Drama
The Merry-Go-Round (1919)
50 min | Comedy, Drama

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 ...See moreCrump'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. Gypsy's subsequent life with her real parents is miserable since they find her lack of manners offensive and try to get her to marry a cousin, but Jack rescues her, and the minute she turns 18 he marries her with the Pomeroys' belated consent. Written by AFI See less
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Douglas Bronston (scenario)
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Updated Sep 21, 1919

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Sep 21, 1919 (United States)

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8 cast members
Name Known for
Peggy Hyland
Gypsy / Susie Alice Pomeroy Gypsy / Susie Alice Pomeroy   See fewer
Jack Mulhall
Jack Hamilton Jack Hamilton   See fewer
Edward Jobson
Ezekial Powers Ezekial Powers   See fewer
Edwin B. Tilton
Andrew Pomeroy Andrew Pomeroy   See fewer
Vera Lewis
Mrs. Pomeroy Mrs. Pomeroy   See fewer
Robert Walker
Charles Merryweather Charles Merryweather   See fewer
Willard Louis
Jerry Crump Jerry Crump   See fewer
Lule Warrenton
Carlotta the Gypsy Queen Carlotta the Gypsy Queen   See fewer
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