Billy Rose's Jumbo (film)
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Billy Rose's Jumbo was a 1962 musical film, starring Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye, and Stephen Boyd. It featured Busby Berkeley's choreography. It was nominated for the Academy Award for the adaptation of its Rodgers and Hart score.
The title came from the original Broadway show on which the film was based, and which opened on in 1935. Billy Rose produced the original stage version, and stipulated that if a film version was ever made, he would have to be credited in the title, even if he were not personally involved with the film.
Both play and film feature songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, although the film borrows two songs from other Rodgers and Hart shows other than Jumbo.
Despite the fact that the score contained such Rodgers and Hart standards as My Romance and The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, neither the original play or the film were especially successful. The film was Doris Day's last screen musical.
A soundtrack album of the movie was issued by Columbia Records in 1962.
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