chaplinfortheages:

The end of “The Circus” (1928) surely one of his most poignant, unlike the ambiguous ending of “City Lights” you know in this film he will not get the girl.

Dumbo babies (1941)

denisebefore:

Bostock & Wombwell Circus

c.1920

Walt Disney’s “Dumbo” (1941)

“Dumbo” (1941)

Krazy Kat catches fleas at the flea circus in “Weenie Roast” (1931) - Charles Mintz

Happy Birthday, child actor Frankie Darro  (December 22nd, 1917 - December 25th, 1976) - here with his father Frank, when they were circus perfomers in the 1920s

the-asphalt-jungle:

Leila Hyams - Freaks - (1932)

Casper The Friendly Ghost goes to the circus in “Keep Your Grin Up” (1955)

Rhonda Fleming and a pachyderm pal

Jackie the lion visits with two lady friends at the Clyde Beatty Circus - 1951

themarxbrotherssource:

Groucho waltzing on the ceiling with Eve Arden in “At the Circus” (1939)

forgottenfortunes:

Circus Girl University of Florida

Photographed by Loomis Dean, 1952

LIFE Magaizine

vintagegal:

art by Joe De Mers 1940’s