The Circus

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Guest host Greg Proops introduces The Circus, 1928.

From Bill Hader's introduction to Charles Chaplin's The Circus, 1928, featured on TCM's Essentials Jr., Sunday June 24th at 8pm ET.

Opening sequence, from the 1969 re-release, featuring the star and director atypically billed as "Charlie," plus the song he wrote and recorded for this version, from "Charles" Chaplin's The Circus, 1928.

Accidentally recruited into the circus, the Tramp (director and star Charles Chaplin) meets "The Equestrienne" (Merna Kennedy), a performer denied food by her tyrannical father, the proprietor (Allan Garcia), in The Circus, 1928.