Carnival Lady

This underrated poverty row gem has so many winning features i scarcely know where to begin. The story is romantic and dramatic, and there are dozens of wonderful documentary scenes of including a carnival bally, a rigged carnival midway game, Kit Guard as a carnival boxer who will go two rounds with anyone, a delightfully acrobatic vaudeville specialty dance, and an actual death-defying high diver, filmed from several angles. Add to that some nice railroad train footage, a cameo appearance by Angelo Rossitto the burly dwarf, a couple of obese freak-show actors, and a strange mitt-reader named Zandra and you have a great production with Willis Kent touches galore.

Special shout-out to Donald Kerr as Dick, the acrobatic dancer and sure-shot boxer. He had a long career playing carnival barkers and pitchmen and appeared in more than 500 movies and television shows -- but as of this writing, in 2022, IMDb could not even be bothered to clip out a still of him to place on his bio.