Polly of the Circus (1932 film)

Polly of the Circus is a 1932 American pre-Code MGM drama film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable.

When a traveling circus arrives in a small town, trapeze artist Polly Fisher (Marion Davies) is outraged to find that clothing has been added to posters of her to hide her moderately skimpy costume.

She goes to see the man she mistakenly holds responsible, Reverend John Hartley (Clark Gable).

He and John speed to the circus' next stop and arrive just in time to save Polly.

The story started as a short novel by Margaret Mayo which she then adapted as a script for a 1907 play, Polly of the Circus, written for the entertainment magnet Frederic Thompson.