The Mighty Barnum

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The Mighty Barnum
Poster of the movie The Mighty Barnum.jpg
Directed by Walter Lang
Written by Gene Fowler (play and screenplay)
Bess Meredyth (play and screenplay)
John Huston (uncredited)
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring Wallace Beery
Adolphe Menjou
Virginia Bruce
Rochelle Hudson
Cinematography J. Peverell Marley
Edited by Barbara McLean
Music by Alfred Newman
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • December 23, 1934 (1934-12-23)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Mighty Barnum is a 1934 film directed by Walter Land and starring Wallace Beery [1] as P.T. Barnum. The movie was written by Gene Fowler and Bess Meredyth, adapted from their play of the same name. [2] Beery had played Barnum four years earlier in A Lady's Morals , a highly fictionalized biography of singer Jenny Lind. The supporting cast features Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Bruce as Jenny Lind, and Rochelle Hudson. [3]

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References

  1. Liberty. Macfadden Publications. 1935.
  2. McHugh, Dominic (2022). The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-750342-3.
  3. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Mighty Barnum