After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
$172,000
$881,000
December 22, 1924
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
14 people
Lon Chaney
Paul Beaumont
Acting
Norma Shearer
Consuelo
Acting
John Gilbert
Bezano
Acting
Ruth King
Marie Beaumont
Acting
Marc McDermott
Baron Regnard
Acting
Ford Sterling
Tricaud
Acting
Tully Marshall
Count Mancini
Acting
Edward Arnold
(uncredited)
Acting
Paulette Duval
Zinida (uncredited)
Acting
Brandon Hurst
Clown (uncredited)
Acting
Toby Wing
Playing Child (uncredited)
Acting
Pierre Watkin
Spectator at Final Performance (uncredited)
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