Below is the entry from Wikipedia about the movie, Greatest Show on Earth--it did win the Academy Award for best picture that year. So, for those of you who don't hate circuses, maybe you will want to check it out (see Tony Curtis' white pants!)
Carmen
The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille.
The film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring, and Charlton Heston as the circus manager running the show. The three are also involved in a romantic triangle. Other subplots involve performers played by Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame, and a clown who never removes his makeup, played by James Stewart. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby played cameo roles as circus spectators.
Behind-the-scene melodrama is interwoven with almost documentary-style scenes of realistic circus performances in lavish costumes (by Edith Head and others), and towards the end, a spectacular scene involving the two trains that carry the circus from town to town.
The movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture. It also won an Oscar for Best Story.
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Below is the entry from Wikipedia about the movie, Greatest Show on Earth--it did win the Academy Award for best picture that year. So, for those of you who don't hate circuses, maybe you will want to check it out (see Tony Curtis' white pants!)
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The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille.
The film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring, and Charlton Heston as the circus manager running the show. The three are also involved in a romantic triangle. Other subplots involve performers played by Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame, and a clown who never removes his makeup, played by James Stewart. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby played cameo roles as circus spectators.
Behind-the-scene melodrama is interwoven with almost documentary-style scenes of realistic circus performances in lavish costumes (by Edith Head and others), and towards the end, a spectacular scene involving the two trains that carry the circus from town to town.
The movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture. It also won an Oscar for Best Story.