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The Greatest Show on Earth

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Calorie Rating: 214
Released: 1952-02-16
MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 152 Minutes
Budget: 4000000
Revenue 36000000
Studios: Paramount,


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.

Director / Directors

Edward Salven
Assistant Director
Arthur Rosson
Second Unit Director



Cast

Betty Hutton
Character: Holly
Cornel Wilde
Character: The Great Sebastian
Charlton Heston
Character: Brad Braden

Dorothy Lamour
Character: Phyllis
Gloria Grahame
Character: Angel
James Stewart
Character: Buttons

Henry Wilcoxon
Character: FBI Agent Gregory
Lyle Bettger
Character: Klaus
Lawrence Tierney
Character: Mr. Henderson

Emmett Kelly
Character: Himself
Cucciola
Character: Cucciola
Robert Carson
Character: The Ringmaster

John Kellogg
Character: Harry
Julia Faye
Character: Birdie
Cecil B. DeMille
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

John Ringling North
Character: Himself
Lou Jacobs
Character: Himself (clown)
Brad Jackson
Character: Reporter at RIngside

Frank Wilcox
Character: Doctor
Lillian Albertson
Character: Buttons' mother
Milton Kibbee
Character: Picked-pocket Customer

Davison Clark
Character: Sam, game customer
Dorothy Adams
Character: Sam's Wife (uncredited)
Arthur Q. Bryan
Character: Ice-Cream Eating Spectator

Bess Flowers
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Bing Crosby
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Bob Hope
Character: Spectator (uncredited)

Mona Freeman
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Kathleen Freeman
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
William Boyd
Character: Hopalong Cassidy (uncredited)

Beverly Washburn
Character: Little Girl Spectator (uncredited)
Lee Aaker
Character: Little Boy Spectator (uncredited)
Erville Alderson
Character: Spectator (uncredited)

Oliver Blake
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Nancy Gates
Character: Spectator

Bob Crosby
Character: Spectator
John Ridgely
Character: Assistant Manager
Lane Chandler
Character: Dave (uncredited)

Edmond O'Brien
Character: Midway Barker at End (uncredited)
Eric Alden
Character: Canvas Man (uncredited)
Noel Neill
Character: Noel (uncredited)

Syd Saylor
Character: Circus Barker (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Character: Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Daisy Earles
Character: Midget

Luce Potter
Character: Midget
Angelo Rossitto
Character: Dwarf
Antoinette Concello
Character: Antoinette Concello

Tuffy Genders
Character: Tuffy Genders
Lillian O'Malley
Character: Spectator


Production and Crew


George Barnes
Director of Photography
Henry Wilcoxon
Associate Producer

Jack Gariss
Additional Writing

Hal Pereira
Art Direction

J. Peverell Marley
Additional Photography
Dorothy Jeakins
Costume Design
Ray Moyer
Set Decoration

John Ringling North
Technical Advisor
John Cope
Sound Recordist
Harry Lindgren
Sound Recordist

Victor Young
Original Music Composer
W. Wallace Kelley
Additional Photography
Walter H. Tyler
Art Direction

Sam Comer
Set Decoration
Edith Head
Costume Design
Wally Westmore
Makeup Supervisor