Program from Cecil B. DeMille's Film The Greatest Show on Earth: Museum Object and Cultural History
Program from Cecil B. DeMille's Film The Greatest Show on Earth: date made: 1952. Associated Name: Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Associated Name: DeMille, Cecil B..
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Director Cecil B. Demille’s 1952 film epic The Greatest Show on Earth starred Jimmy Stewart, Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Chalton Heston and Dorthy Lamour as well as the Ringing Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus troupe. The lavish spectacle won the 1952 Oscar for best motion picture.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1952
- Associated Name: Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus
- Associated Name: DeMille, Cecil B.
- maker: Paramount
- Object Name: Booklet
- Object Name: program
- Physical Description: ink (overall materal)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 12 in x 9 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm
- general subject association: Circus
- general subject association: Motion Pictures
- ID Number: 1981.0768.07
- accession number: 1981.0768
- catalog number: 1981.0768.07
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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