The Side Show of Life

The Side Show of Life
	1924 film poster, likenesses of Ernest Torrence and Anna Q. Nilsson
Directed by	Herbert Brenon
Produced by	Herbert Brenon; Jesse L. Lasky; Adolph Zukor
Screenplay by	Scenarios:; Willis Goldbeck; Julie Herne
Based on	The Mountebank (novel); by William J. Locke; The Mountebank (play); by Ernest Denny
Starring	Ernest Torrence; Neil Hamilton
Cinematography	James Wong Howe
Production; company	Famous Players-Lasky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	July 21, 1924 (New York City); ; September 1, 1924 (Nationwide);
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film; with (English intertitles)

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.

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

Production

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.[1]

Preservation status

A print of this film survives in the Gosfilmofond archive, Moscow.[2]

References

External links

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[1] The Mountebank produced by Charles Frohman Inc., Lyceum Theatre, New York ; 1923

[2] The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Side Show of Life