At the Circus

At the Circus
Directed byEdward Buzzell
Written byIrving Brecher
Buster Keaton (uncredited)
Laurence Stallings (uncredited)
Produced byMervyn LeRoy
StarringGroucho Marx
Chico Marx
Harpo Marx
Florence Rice
Kenny Baker
Margaret Dumont
Eve Arden
CinematographyLeonard M. Smith
Edited byWilliam H. Terhune
Music byFranz Waxman
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's, Inc.
Release date
  • October 20, 1939 (1939-10-20)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

At the Circus is a 1939 comedy film starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they help save a circus from bankruptcy. The film contains Groucho Marx's classic rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady". The supporting cast includes Florence Rice, Kenny Baker, Margaret Dumont, and Eve Arden. The songs, including "Lydia the Tattooed Lady", "Two Blind Loves", and "Step Up and Take a Bow", were written by the team of Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, who'd recently furnished the songs for another MGM film that same year, The Wizard of Oz.