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Best Music Scoring of Music Adaptation or Treatment | 1963 | George
Best Supporting Actress | 1963 | Martha
Best Actor Comedy or Musical | 1963 | Stephen
Best Actress Comedy or Musical | 1963 | Doris
Best Motion Picture Musical | 1963
Best Written American Musical | 1963 | Sidney
This was Doris Day's last appearance in a full-on musical - and one of the last of the lavishly-budgeted MGM musicals as well. Despite Day being ranked the #1 box office star at the time of its release, it was widely considered a box office failure.
This movie was based on Billy Rose's 1935 Hippodrome extravaganza and one of Rose's stipulations in negotiating the screen rights was that his name be featured in the title.
The dubbing of Stephen Boyd's vocals is a lingering mystery in the annals of movie musicals. Various sources have credited the robust baritone to a studio singer named James Joyce, but Joyce's name is documented nowhere else in terms of film history, and his distinctive voice has been heard in no films before or since. Additionally, contract singers were extinct by 1962, so the mystery as to who dubbed Boyd's vocals remains a Holy Grail to film historians. Further, Columbia Records' original sound track album erroneously credited Boyd for the vocal performance, which only intensifies the mystery.
Jumbo marked the final musical arrangements and orchestrations from legendary composer Conrad Salinger, who passed away during the production.
Producer Arthur Freed purchased the screen rights to 'Jumbo' for $100,000 in 1943 as a possible vehicle for Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney with Wallace Beery and Frank Morgan costarring and Rouben Mamoulian directing. In 1947, the property again came up as a possible film to star Garland or Kathryn Grayson opposite Frank Sinatra or Gene Kelly, again with Mamoulian as director. After another failed attempt to start production in 1952, Freed shelved the project.
"Kitty Wonder: [When fortune teller Lulu is reading her palm] Do you really see somebody? Lulu: Yes! He's tall, dark... Kitty Wonder: ...and handsome? You are such a faker! Do you ever see someone short, fat and ugly? Lulu: Yep... in the mirror!"
"Kitty Wonder: [singing atop the main float in the Wonder Circus parade] Bring the kiddies... out to see. Bring the entire Fami-ly."
