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Can a full grown woman truly love a midget? - Freaks
Movie Details

Title: Freaks

Release Date: 1 Jan 1932

Runtime: 1h 6m

Genre: Drama, Horror

Director: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Overview: A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.8 (1189 votes)

Cast

  • Hans: Harry Earles
  • Cleopatra: Olga Baclanova
  • Frieda: Daisy Earles
  • Hercules: Henry Victor
  • Phroso: Wallace Ford
  • Venus: Leila Hyams
  • Roscoe: Roscoe Ates
  • Angeleno: Angelo Rossitto
  • Knife-Throwing Dwarf (uncredited): Jerry Austin
  • Siamese Twin: Daisy Hilton
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