Three Maxims

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = Three Maxims | image = "Three_Maxims"_(1936).jpg | caption = Australian newspaper ad | director = Herbert Wilcox | producer = Herbert Wilcox | writer = Nicolas Farkas Anthony Kimmins Herman J. Mankiewicz Austin Melford E.G. Valentine | starring = Anna Neagle Tullio Carminati Leslie Banks Arthur Finn | music = Geraldo | cinematography = Jan Stallich Freddie Young | editing = | studio = Herbert Wilcox Productions | distributor = General Film Distributors | released = {{Film date|1936|06}} | runtime = 70 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Three Maxims''''' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminati and Leslie Banks. It was released in the United States under the alternative title ''''' The Show Goes On'''''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/three-maxims-v113557|title = The Three Maxims (1937) - Herbert Wilcox | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie}}</ref> Separate French and German language versions were filmed 1935 in Paris.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54235|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114015338/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54235|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 January 2009|title=The Three Maxims (1936)|publisher=British Film Institute|accessdate=11 September 2015}}</ref> The film's sets were designed by Wilcox's regular art director Lawrence P. Williams.

==Premise== A love triangle causes major disruption to the harmony of a trapeze act.

==Cast== * Anna Neagle as Pat * Tullio Carminati as Toni * Leslie Banks as Mac * Arthur Finn as Hiram K. Winston * Olive Blakeney as Mrs Winston * Miki Hood as Valentine * Anthony Ireland as Val * Nicolas Koline as Niki * Gaston Palmer as Juggler * Leonard Snelling as Prodigy * Winifred Oughton as Prodigy's Mother * Beatrix Fielden-Kaye as Madame Thomas * Laurence Hanray as Thomas * Tarva Penna as Doctor * Vincent Holman as Cafe Proprietor * Henry Caine as Stage Manager * Horace Hodges as Mike

==Other film versions== * ''{{ill|Variétés (film)|fr|3=Variétés (film, 1935)|lt=Variétés}}'' (1935) with Jean Gabin and Annabella * ''Variety'' (1935) with Hans Albers and Annabella

==References== <references/>

==Bibliography== * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927–1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0028370}}

Category:1936 films Category:1936 drama films Category:British drama films Category:1936 English-language films Category:Films directed by Herbert Wilcox Category:Films with screenplays by Herman J. Mankiewicz Category:Circus films Category:British remakes of French films Category:British remakes of German films Category:British black-and-white films Category:Films shot at Imperial Studios, Elstree Category:1936 British films Category:English-language drama films