poster from Tod Browning's Freaks

Production:

• Directed by Tod Browning Ê
• Written by Al Boasberg, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, Edgar Allan Woolf, from the novel Spurs by Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins
• Produced by Tod Browning Ê
• Cinematography by Merritt B. Gerstad Ê
• Film Editing by Basil Wrangell
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Cast:

• Wallace Ford as Phroso
• Leila Hyams as Venus
• Olga Baclanova as Cleopatra
• Roscoe Ates as Roscoe
• Henry Victor as Hercules
• Harry Earles as Hans
• Daisy Earles as Frieda
• Rose Dione as Madame Tetrallini
• Daisy Hilton as Daisy a Siamese Twin
• Violet Hilton as Violet a Siamese Twin
• Schlitze as Herself (Pinhead Girl)
• Josephine Joseph as Half-Woman, Half Man
• Johnny Eck as Johnny the Half Boy
• Frances O'Connor as Frances the Turtle Girl
• Peter Robinson as Living Human Skeleton
• Olga Roderick as Bearded Lady
• Koo Koo as Bird Girl
• Randion as The Living Torso
• Martha Morris as Armless Wonder
• Elvira Snow as Zip the Pinhead (as Zip)
• Jenny Lee Snow as Pip the Pinhead (as Pip)
• Elizabeth Green as Bird Girl
• Angelo Rossitto as Angeleno
• Edward Brophy as Rollo Brother
• Matt McHugh as Rollo Brother

Links:

• Credits from the IMDB for the title Freaks
• Tod Browning's Freaks from Joe Bates
• Reviews by the UK Missing Link and Pif magazine and Horrorfime
• Terror of Tiny Town film of 1938
• Midget Village was the most popular concession at the 1935 San Diego California Pacific Exposition
• Island Freaks article from the Coney Island History Site on the 1904 Midget City in Dreamland created by Samuel W. Gumpertz, and his 1911 Dreamland Circus Sideshow