| DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Under the Big Top is a 1938 American film directed by Karl Brown. Cast Marjorie Main as Sara Post Anne Nagel as Penny Jack La Rue as Ricardo Le Grande Grant Richards as Pablo Le Grande Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Juba Betty Compson as Marie Herbert Rawlinson as Herman George Cleveland as Joe Rolfe Sedan as Pierre Charlene Wyatt as Penny - as a child Harry Harvey as McCarthy Marjorie Main (February 24, 1890 -- April 10, 1975) was an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Anne Nagel (September 29, 1915 -- July 6, 1966) was an American actress. She played in adventures, mysteries, and comedies for twenty-five years. She also appeared in television series in the 1950s. Born as Anne Dolan in Boston, Massachusetts, Nagel's film career began in 1932 with a bit part as a ballet girl in Hypnotized. In 1936, she appeared in Here Comes Carter with Ross Alexander. A reviewer remarked of her performance, "she was just one of those girls who has learned to croon for the microphone, and let the rest of the world go hang." Her early roles were in such films as Footloose Heiress, Three Legionnaires, Torchy Blane, the Adventurous Blonde (all from 1937). She was in Mystery House (1938), Unexpected Father (1939), and Legion of Lost Flyers (1939). In 1940, she appeared with WC Fields and Mae West in My Little Chickadee. Other feature movies from 1940 in which she ... |
