“You'll Laugh with 'Em and at 'Em!”
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
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Lee Tracy
Chick Thompson
Known for
Bombshell
Doctor X
Sally Eilers
Daisy
Also in
Bad Girl
The Black Camel
Jimmy Durante
Fingers
Known for
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Florence Rice
Miss Holbrook
Known for
At the Circus
Thomas E. Jackson
Mac
Known for
The Woman in the Window
Little Caesar
Dickie Walters
Poochy
Also in
Easy Money
Star for a Night
Beverly Jean Gardner
Baby
No other roles listed
Gene O'Brien
Also in
The Last Season
Guns of the Pecos
Billy Smith
Also in
It Happened in Hollywood
John Aasen
Circus Giant
Also in
Why Worry?
Legionnaires in Paris
Ernie Adams
Barker (uncredited)
Known for
The Pride of the Yankees
Invisible Ghost
Betty Alden
Nurse
Also in
The Nut Farm
The Fountain
Walter Lang Director · Robert Riskin Writer Allen G. Siegler Cinematographer
United States release February 15, 1935 · Produced in United States
Production
Columbia Pictures
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · February 15, 1935
Theatrical
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