The Mad Genius (1931)

Directors

Michael Curtiz

Cast

John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Charles Butterworth, Donald Cook

The story

A crippled puppeteer, Ivan Tsarakov, is frustrated that he will never dance ballet. He adopts a protégé, Fedor Ivanoff, whom he makes into the greatest dancer in the world. Fedor falls in love with a ballerina, Nana Carlova, but Tsarakov fears that she will ruin Fedor as a dancer.

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