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2 unusual facts about The Greatest Show on Earth


Fredric M. Frank

Writer Fredric M. Frank (1911 - 1977) was a favourite scribe of Cecil B. deMille and worked with him on several of his epic productions throughout the 40s and 50s including "Unconquered", "Samson and Delilah" "The Greatest Show on Earth" for which he won an Academy Award for Best Story, and "The Ten Commandments."

John Murray Anderson

Anderson directed the film King of Jazz (1930), wrote the screenplay for Ziegfeld Follies (1946), directed the water ballets in Bathing Beauty (1944), and directed the circus sequences in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).


Lynne McNamara

As a young girl in the 1950s, inspired by the actress Betty Hutton in the Cecil B. DeMille epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, Lynne dreamed of becoming a movie star when she grew up.


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