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Clyde Raymond Beatty (June 10, 1903 – July 19, 1965) was a famed animal trainer, zoo owner, and circus mogul. He joined Howe's Great London Circus in 1921 as a cage boy and spent the next four decades rising to fame as one of the most famous circus performers and animal trainers in the world.
Clarence Chesterfield Howerton (February 9, 1913 – November 18, 1975), also known as Major Mite, was an American circus performer who starred in the sideshow for over 25 years, 20 of which were with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was 2 ft 4 in (0.71 m) tall and performed with several groups from the early 1920s through the ...
The Big Circus; The Big Number; The Big Show (1961 film) Big Top Bunny; Big Top Pee-wee; Big Top Scooby-Doo! Billy Rose's Jumbo; Black Forest Melody; Boonie Bears: The Big Top Secret; Boop-Oop-a-Doop; Boot Hill (film) Bright Lights (1928 film) Bronco Billy; Buddy's Circus; Bye Bye Brazil
Josephine Joseph is most prominently remembered for a role in the Tod Browning 1932 classic cult film Freaks.Although she only had two lines of dialogue, she still appeared in a number of scenes, most notably the scene at the wedding reception where she is the one who begins the chant: "We accept her, one of us!
Bird Millman O’Day (born Jennadean Engleman; October 20, 1890 – August 5, 1940 [1]) was one of the most celebrated high-wire performers of all time. [2] During the “Golden Age of the American Circus,” she was a premiere attraction with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. [3] Bird Millman, 1913. [4]
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. These women quickly drew large crowds of circus lovers ...
His "Rowe's American Circus" played in Melbourne, Australia from June 1852 [3] to October 1854, when he liquidated the establishment. [4] The English acrobat George Lewis was one of his performers. Rowe returned to America in February 1854, leaving his wife Eliza, who was a performing member of the circus, riding a trick pony, as sole manager.
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.