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[1] [107] Literary critic John Carey wrote: "He invented clown make-up as we know it today (the wide grin was designed to be visible from the back of Drury Lane's auditorium, the biggest in Europe). He also created the stereotype of the "sad clown", taken up by later funsters including Charlie Chaplin and Peter Sellers." [184]
Dolenz as Corky. Set in the late 1890s, the title of the series refers to a boy named Corky. After his parents, "The Flying Falcons," were killed in a trapeze accident, young Corky (Micky Dolenz – billed at the time as Mickey Braddock) [2] was adopted by Joey the Clown (Noah Beery, Jr.), and the whole Burke and Walsh Circus family.
The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, [2] shot in Technicolor and released by Paramount Pictures.Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring and Charlton Heston as the circus manager.
Rajoo – circus clown and the central character in Raj Kapoor's film Mera Naam Joker; Rollo the Clown – played by William (Billy) Wayne, the "good-guy" clown in the Adventures of Superman episode titled "The Clown Who Cried". Rollo the Clown – from the 1991 film The Little Engine That Could, based on the children's book of the same name.
The Circus is leaving town. Showtime’s Emmy Award-nominated political docuseries will end with this Sunday’s episode after an eight-season run, the network has confirmed. The program, which ...
Art the Clown is moving from Halloween to Christmas horror in the first trailer for “Terrifier 3.” David Howard Thornton’s diabolical mime will return with more gore in the third installment ...
“The Monkey” is a belabored circus of showpiece homicide built around a way-too-cartoonish-to-be-convincing tale of twin brothers who hate each other. I’m not sure which aspect of the movie ...
The Circus Clown is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film about a man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father. It stars Joe E. Brown and Patricia Ellis . Plot