Laugh, Clown, Laugh

US (1927): Drama/Silent

Itinerant showmen, Tito (Lon Chaney) and Simon (Bernard Siegel), travel from town to town entertaining Italian peasants with their brilliant clowning. But that carefree existence is soon at an end when Tito rescues an abandoned child he finds by the riverside. He names her Simonetta (Loretta Young) and she grows into a young women as beautiful as she is sweet. But Tito finds that, as Simon predicted, women bring fresh complications to life. When Simonetta makes the acquaintance of a cocky young Count Luigi Ravelli (Nils Asther), aging circus clown Tito finds himself torn between his newly discovered romantic love for the girl he has raised as his own, and his desire for her happiness. Herbert Brenon directs. (Turner Classic Movies)

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