You'll Laugh with 'Em and at 'Em!
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
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Lee Tracy
Chick Thompson
Sally Eilers
Daisy
Jimmy Durante
Fingers
Florence Rice
Miss Holbrook
Thomas E. Jackson
Mac
Dickie Walters
Poochy
Beverly Jean Gardner
Baby
Gene O'Brien
Billy Smith
John Aasen
Circus Giant
Ernie Adams
Barker (uncredited)
Betty Alden
Nurse
Oscar Apfel
Mr. Lawson
Jessie Arnold
Woman
Lucille Ball
Nurse (uncredited)
