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The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in Technicolor and released by Paramount Pictures. Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring and Charlton Heston as the circus manager.
The Greatest Show on Earth: Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour. The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
The Greatest Show on Earth is melodramatic, short on plot, excessively lengthy and bogged down with clichés, but not without a certain innocent charm. Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. A...
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) began as an idea by producer David O. Selznick. In April 1948 he announced he would film a circus story that centered around the Ringling Brothers-Barnum, and Bailey Circus. However, when Selznick failed to get the necessary funding, he abandoned the project.
In Cecil B. DeMille’s Academy Award®-winning film, we step behind the scenes of the circus…in all its majesty and mystery. Charlton Heston stars as Brad Braden, the diehard circus manager who...
Overview. To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground. Theodore St. John.
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) was a Drama - Family Film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and produced by Cecil B. DeMille and Henry Wilcoxon. SYNOPSIS. A dazzling, only-by-DeMille spectacle focusing on life with a traveling three-ring circus.
