The Mighty Barnum (1934)
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
- Date of release
- 1934-12-23
- TMDB
- 4.2 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Walter Lang
Casting
- Wallace Beery — Phineas T. Barnum
- Adolphe Menjou — Bailey Walsh
- Virginia Bruce — Jenny Lind
- Rochelle Hudson — Ellen
- Janet Beecher — Nancy Barnum
- Tammany Young — Todd
- Herman Bing — Farmer Schultz
- Lucille La Verne — Joice Heth
- George Brasno — Gen. Tom Thumb
- Olive Brasno — Lavinia Thumb
- May Boley — Bearded Lady
- May Boley — J. P. Skiff
Interesting facts
The Mighty Barnum is a 1934 film directed by Walter Land and starring Wallace Beery as P.T. Barnum. The movie was written by Gene Fowler and Bess Meredyth. 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.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- Pretty Persuasion 2005 · ★ 5.8
- Taking Care of Business 1990 · ★ 6.3
- 29th Street 1991 · ★ 6.9
- Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill 1999 · ★ 7.8
- Seriously Single 2020 · ★ 6.8
- Love Happy 1949 · ★ 5.8
- The Geisha Boy 1958 · ★ 6.4
- Back to the Beach 1987 · ★ 5.9
- Thunderstruck 2012 · ★ 6.2
- The Errand Boy 1961 · ★ 6.2
- A Bad Moms Christmas 2017 · ★ 6.3
- Louis C.K.: Ridiculous 2026 · ★ 6.1