Title: The Greatest Show on Earth
Runtime: 152 Min
Year: 1952
Genres: Drama - Family - Romance
Cast: Charlton Heston, Cornel Wilde, Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame, Henry Wilcoxon, Lyle Bettger, James Stewart, Lawrence Tierney, Emmett Kelly, Cucciola, Antoinette Concello, John Ringling North, Tuffy Genders, John Kellogg, John Ridgely, Frank Wilcox, Robert Carson
Directed By: Cecil B. DeMille
PLOT
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. Subplots involve the secret past of Buttons the Clown and the efforts of racketeers to move in on the game concessions. Let the show begin!
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English - Russian
Writers: Fredric M. Frank (screenplay) &Barré Lyndon (screenplay) & Theodore St. John (screenplay) Fredric M. Frank (story) & Theodore St. John (story) & Frank Cavett (story) Jack Gariss additional writer (uncredited)
Awards:
1953- Academy Awards, USA (Oscar)
-Best Picture Cecil B. DeMille (WON)
-Best Writing, Motion Picture Story Fredric, M. Frank, Theodore St. John and Frank Cavett (WON)
-Best Costume Design, Color Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins and Miles White (NOMINATED)
-Best Director Cecil B. DeMille (NOMINATED)
-Best Film Editing Anne Bauchens (NOMINATED)
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