The Greatest Show on Earth

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 amp 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 running the show. James Stewart also stars in a supporting role as a mysterious clown who never removes his makeup, even between shows, while Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame play supporting roles.

We bring you the circusthat Pied Piper whose magic tunes lead children of all ages into a tinseled and spuncandied world of reckless beauty and mounting laughter whirling thrills of rhythm, excitement and grace of daring, enflaring and dance of highstepping horses and highflying stars.But behind all this, the circus is a massive machine whose very life depends on discipline, motion and speeda mechanized army on wheels that rolls over any obstacle in its paththat meets calamity again and again, but always comes up smilinga place where disaster and tragedy stalk the Big Top, haunts the back yard, and rides the circus trainwhere Death is constantly watching for one frayed rope, one weak link, or one trace of fear. ........

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