The Mighty Barnum
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Directed by | Walter Lang |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Written by |
Gene Fowler Bess Meredyth |
Starring | Wallace Beery |
Edited by | Barbara McLean |
Production company |
20th Century Pictures |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates |
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Running time | 85 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Mighty Barnum is a 1934 film starring Wallace Beery as P.T. Barnum. The movie was written by Gene Fowler and Bess Meredyth, and directed by Walter Lang. 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.
Cast
- Wallace Beery as P.T. Barnum
- Adolphe Menjou as Bailey Walsh
- Virginia Bruce as Jenny Lind
- Rochelle Hudson as Ellen
- Janet Beecher as Nancy Barnum
- Tammany Young as Todd
- Herman Bing as Farmer Schultz
- Lucille La Verne as Joice Heath
- George Brasno as Tom Thumb
- George MacQuarrie as Daniel Webster
- Olive Brasno as Lavinia Thumb
- May Boley as the Bearded Lady
- John Hyams as J.P. Skiff