The Mad Genius
1931-09-30A 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.

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.

Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
John Barrymore

Nana Carlova
Marian Marsh

Karimsky
Charles Butterworth

Fedor Ivanoff
Donald Cook

Sergei Bankieff
Luis Alberni

Sonya Preskoya
Carmel Myers

Count Robert Renaud
André Luguet

Fedor as a Boy
Frankie Darro

Poster Hanger (uncredited)
Chester A. Bachman

Poster Hanger (uncredited)
Charles Brinley

Fedor's Father (uncredited)
Boris Karloff

Olga Chekova (uncredited)
Mae Madison

Opera Spectator (uncredited)
Walter Miller

Montmartre Cabaret Director (uncredited)
Lee Moran

Stagehand (uncredited)
Charles Williams

Curtain Man (uncredited)
Harry Wilson