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Director
  
Herbert Brenon

Country
  
United States

The Side Show of Life movie poster
Language
  
Silent film with (English intertitles)

Release date
  
July 21, 1924 (1924-07-21) (New York City) September 1, 1924 (1924-09-01) (Nationwide)

Based on
  
The Mountebank (novel)  by William J. Locke The Mountebank (play)  by Ernest Denny

Writer
  
Ernest Denny (play), Willis Goldbeck, Julie Herne, William J. Locke (novel)

The Side Show of Life (1924) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, directed by Herbert Brenon and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on the novel The Mountebank by William J. Locke which had been turned into a play by Ernest Denny.

Ernest Torrence stars in the role of a clown during World War I similar to that of Lon Chaney's in He Who Gets Slapped that same year and Brenon's Laugh, Clown, Laugh four years later. Norman Trevor starred in the Broadway play in 1923. A print of this film survives in Moscow.

Cast

  • Ernest Torrence as Andrew Lackaday
  • Anna Q. Nilsson as Lady Auriol Dayne
  • Louise Lagrange as Elodie
  • Maurice de Canonge as Horatio Bakkus (as Maurice Cannon)
  • Neil Hamilton as Charles Verity-Stewart
  • William Ricciardi as Mignon
  • Mrs. Pozzi as Ernestine
  • Lawrence D'Orsay as Sir Julius Verity-Stewart
  • Effie Shannon as Lady Verity-Stewart
  • Katherine Lee as Evadne
  • References

    The Side Show of Life Wikipedia
    The Side Show of Life IMDb