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Circus | Clown
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Best Cinematography Color | 1953
Best Director | 1953 | Cecil B.
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1953
Best Pictures of the Month March For and | 1952
Best Performances of the Month March | 1952
Best Pictures of the Month (March) | 1952
1953 | Cecil B.
Best Picture of the Month for the Whole Family July | 1952
Best Costume Design Color | 1953
Best Director | 1953 | Cecil B.
Best Film Editing | 1953
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1953 | Cecil B.
Best Director | 1952 | Cecil B.
Budget 4,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 36,000,000 USD
Despite his made-to-order background as a real-life circus acrobat, Burt Lancaster declined the role of The Great Sebastian, a fact Cecil B. DeMille doubly regretted when he learned that Cornel Wilde was afraid of heights. Wilde was game, however, and ended up performing many of his own stunts on the flying trapeze.
Cecil B. DeMille was always demanding of his actors and actresses. He insisted that everyone truly learn to perform the circus stunts they were supposed to be performing. This meant that Betty Hutton really learned the trapeze and Gloria Grahame had to let an elephant rest its foot an inch from her face. Cornel Wilde probably had it the worst, since he was portraying a trapeze artist. He was seriously afraid of heights.
During one scene Sebastian (Cornel Wilde) is hanging from the trapeze by his knees. He catches Holly (Betty Hutton) then pulls her up and kisses her. During one of the early takes, Wilde tore the ligaments in his shoulder. He managed to make it through two more takes, then had to stop. He was unable to use his arm for several days so Cecil B. DeMille shot scenes where he was not needed.
The real John Ringling North, president of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, is shown early in the film discussing the financial woes of operating the circus for a full-season. Four years after this movie was released, North moved the circus out of tents and into air conditioned venues, in large part to reduce the labor costs of erecting the huge tents needed for the shows.
In his autobiography, Charlton Heston says that when an actor arrived late on the set, as Betty Hutton had a couple of times, Cecil B De Mille blamed the make up department, publicly denouncing them for the actor's late arrival. Heston says that the late-arriving actors then got the message.
"[Phyllis is having her hair washed by Birdie as heart-throb Sebastian approaches;] Phyllis: Why is it whenever he's around I'm all wet? Birdie: In more ways than one."
"Buttons: Clowns are funny people, they only love once. Holly: All men aren't that way, even if they act like clowns."
