Olga Baclanova
Russian actress Olga Baclanova as “Cleopatra”, and Harry Earles as “Hans”, in Tod Browning’s Pre-Code American controversial horror film ‘Freaks’ (1932), also starring starring Wallace Ford as “Phroso”, Leila Hyams as “Venus”, Rosco Ates as “Roscoe”, Henry Victor as “Hercules”, Daisy Earles as “Frieda”, and Rose Dione as “Madame Tetrallini”. The screenplay was adapted from “Spurs", a 1923 story by Tod Robbins. The film also featured, in the supporting cast of carnival sideshow performers, Daisy and Violet Hilton as the ‘Siamese twins’ (conjoined twins), Schlitzie as both himself and as “Samuel Whiskers”, Josephine Joseph as ‘Half Woman-Half Man’, Johnny Eck as ‘Half-Boy’, Frances O'Connor as ‘Armless girl’, Peter Robinson as ‘Human skeleton’, Olga Roderick as ‘Bearded lady’, Koo Koo as herself, Prince Randian as ‘The Living Torso’, Angelo Rossitto as ´Angeleno’, Martha Morris as Angeleno's armless wife, Elvira Snow as ‘Pinhead Pip’, Jenny Lee Snow as ‘Pinhead Zip’, Elizabe...