The Mad Genius
1931A 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.
Acted in
John Barrymore
as Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
Marian Marsh
as Nana Carlova
Charles Butterworth
as Karimsky
Donald Cook
as Fedor Ivanoff
Luis Alberni
as Sergei Bankieff
Carmel Myers
as Sonya Preskoya
André Luguet
as Count Robert Renaud
Frankie Darro
as Fedor as a Boy
Chester A. Bachman
as Poster Hanger (uncredited)
Charles Brinley
as Poster Hanger (uncredited)
Boris Karloff
as Fedor's Father (uncredited)
Mae Madison
as Olga Chekova (uncredited)
Walter Miller
as Opera Spectator (uncredited)
Lee Moran
as Montmartre Cabaret Director (uncredited)
Charles Williams
as Stagehand (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
as Curtain Man (uncredited)