# Three Maxims

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{{Infobox film
| name =  Three Maxims
| image = "Three_Maxims"_(1936).jpg
| caption = Australian newspaper ad
| director = [Herbert Wilcox](/source/Herbert_Wilcox)
| producer = Herbert Wilcox
| writer =  [Nicolas Farkas](/source/Nicolas_Farkas) <br> [Anthony Kimmins](/source/Anthony_Kimmins) <br> [Herman J. Mankiewicz](/source/Herman_J._Mankiewicz) <br> [Austin Melford](/source/Austin_Melford) <br> E.G. Valentine
| starring = [Anna Neagle](/source/Anna_Neagle) <br> [Tullio Carminati](/source/Tullio_Carminati) <br> [Leslie Banks](/source/Leslie_Banks) <br> Arthur Finn
| music = [Geraldo](/source/Geraldo_(bandleader)) 
| cinematography = [Jan Stallich](/source/Jan_Stallich) <br> [Freddie Young](/source/Freddie_Young)
| editing = 
| studio = [Herbert Wilcox Productions](/source/Herbert_Wilcox_Productions)
| distributor = [General Film Distributors](/source/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](/source/drama_film) directed by [Herbert Wilcox](/source/Herbert_Wilcox) and starring [Anna Neagle](/source/Anna_Neagle), [Tullio Carminati](/source/Tullio_Carminati) and [Leslie Banks](/source/Leslie_Banks). It was released in the United States under the [alternative title](/source/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 &#124; Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related &#124; 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](/source/Lawrence_P._Williams).

==Premise==
A [love triangle](/source/love_triangle) causes major disruption to the harmony of a [trapeze](/source/trapeze) act.

==Cast==
* [Anna Neagle](/source/Anna_Neagle) as Pat
* [Tullio Carminati](/source/Tullio_Carminati) as Toni
* [Leslie Banks](/source/Leslie_Banks) as Mac
* Arthur Finn as Hiram K. Winston
* [Olive Blakeney](/source/Olive_Blakeney) as Mrs Winston
* [Miki Hood](/source/Miki_Hood) as Valentine
* [Anthony Ireland](/source/Anthony_Ireland_(actor)) as Val
* Nicolas Koline as Niki
* Gaston Palmer as Juggler
* Leonard Snelling as Prodigy
* [Winifred Oughton](/source/Winifred_Oughton) as Prodigy's Mother
* Beatrix Fielden-Kaye as Madame Thomas
* [Laurence Hanray](/source/Laurence_Hanray) as Thomas
* Tarva Penna as Doctor
* [Vincent Holman](/source/Vincent_Holman) as Cafe Proprietor
* Henry Caine as Stage Manager 
* [Horace Hodges](/source/Horace_Hodges) as Mike

==Other film versions==
* ''{{ill|Variétés (film)|fr|3=Variétés (film, 1935)|lt=Variétés}}'' (1935) with [Jean Gabin](/source/Jean_Gabin) and [Annabella](/source/Annabella_(actress))
* ''[Variety](/source/Variety_(1935_German_film))'' (1935) with [Hans Albers](/source/Hans_Albers) and [Annabella](/source/Annabella_(actress))

==References==
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==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}}

{{Herbert Wilcox}}

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

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