A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	W.C. Fields. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Louise Fazenda [Tillie], W.C. Fields [the ringmister], Mack Swain [Tillie’s father], Chester Conklin [the circus owner], Grant Withers [the hero], Doris Hill [the heroine], Tom Kennedy [the property man], Babe London [the strong woman], William Platt (Billy Platt) [the dwarf], Mickey Bennett [the bad boy], Kalla Pasha [the axe thrower], Mike Rafetto [the lion tamer], Baron von Dobeneck [a German officer], Alfred Adeline, Tommy Albert

Christie Film Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount Picture; An Edward Sutherland Production]. / Produced by Al Christie. Scenario by Monte Brice and Keene Thompson. Cinematography by Charles P. Boyle and William Wheeler. Film editor, Arthur Huffsmith. / Released 3 March 1828. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 27 November 2022.

References: Fields-Fields p. 267; Paris-Brooks p. 155; Sweeney-Coming p. 131 : Website-IMDb.