The Mad Genius

A 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.

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  John Barrymore

  Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
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  Marian Marsh

  Nana Carlova
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  Charles Butterworth

  Karimsky
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  Donald Cook

  Fedor Ivanoff
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  Luis Alberni

  Sergei Bankieff
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  Carmel Myers

  Sonya Preskoya
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  André Luguet

  Count Robert Renaud
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  Frankie Darro

  Fedor as a Boy
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  Chester A. Bachman

  Poster Hanger (uncredited)
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  Charles Brinley

  Poster Hanger (uncredited)