The Mad Genius
30/09/1931
1h 21m

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
Cast


John Barrymore
Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov


Marian Marsh
Nana Carlova


Charles Butterworth
Karimsky


Donald Cook
Fedor Ivanoff


Luis Alberni
Sergei Bankieff


Carmel Myers
Sonya Preskoya


André Luguet
Count Robert Renaud


Frankie Darro
Fedor as a Boy


Chester A. Bachman
Poster Hanger (uncredited)


Charles Brinley
Poster Hanger (uncredited)


Boris Karloff
Fedor's Father (uncredited)


Mae Madison
Olga Chekova (uncredited)


Walter Miller
Opera Spectator (uncredited)


Lee Moran
Montmartre Cabaret Director (uncredited)


Charles Williams
Stagehand (uncredited)


Harry Wilson
Curtain Man (uncredited)
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