Gene Fowler (play and screenplay) Bess Meredyth (play and screenplay) John Huston (uncredited)
Produced by
Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring
Wallace Beery Adolphe Menjou Virginia Bruce Rochelle Hudson
Cinematography
J. Peverell Marley
Edited by
Barbara McLean
Music by
Alfred Newman
Production company
Twentieth Century Pictures
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date
December 23, 1934 (1934-12-23)
Running time
85 minutes
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, adapted from their play of the same name, 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.[1]
^The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Mighty Barnum
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