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6.1/10
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A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 9 nominations total
Wazzan Troupe
- Circus Performers
- (as The Wazzans)
Poodles Hanneford
- Circus Performers
- (as The Hannefords)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaThis movie was based on Billy Rose's 1935 Hippodrome extravaganza and one of Rose's stipulations in negotiating the screen rights was that his name be featured in the title.
- GoofsLulu somehow manages to come out of the cannon backwards - the opposite way to how she entered.
- Quotes
Kitty Wonder: [When fortune teller Lulu is reading her palm] Do you really see somebody?
Lulu: Yes! He's tall, dark...
Kitty Wonder: ...and handsome? You are such a faker! Do you ever see someone short, fat and ugly?
Lulu: Yep... in the mirror!
- ConnectionsFeatured in 7 Nights to Remember (1966)
Featured review
About 10 Years Too Late in Adaptation
The MGM musical circus had left Culver City a few years earlier by the time the studio decided to film this 1930s stage extravaganza. The result is bright and competent enough (and it retains most of the wonderful Rodgers & Hart songs), but ten years earlier the Arthur Freed Unit would have sharpened up the book, included a lot more dancing and had a superior leading man (Stephen Boyd is a disaster in this movie). Doris Day sings the standards very well, and - stealing the film - Jimmy Durante (who gives a glorious rendition of "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World") and Martha Raye are memorable in support.
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- maughancannes-2
- Dec 14, 2002
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- Budget
- $5,256,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 3 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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