The Greatest Show on Earth

There's a clown costume here.

Hollywood star James Stewart wore this costume in the 1952 film The Greatest Show on Earth.

Big shoes, trousers and jacket.

Graham's just turned on the Blackpool lights.

Yeah

... do we record it after the Greatest Show on Earth? Did we do them-

Yeah

... on the same night? Oh my God.

It's not Gigi, is it?

No, it was The Greatest Show on Earth.

Right.

Won over Singing in the Rain.

Sammy, we're going to use Daddy's camera to film it.

Only crash the train once, okay? Then after we get the film developed, you can watch it crash over and over till it's not so scary anymore.

And your real train won't ever get broken.

One more thing, Dolly.

It excites you.

It gives you lots of thrills and chills and spills.

Does it tend to affect you emotionally? And, secondary to that, does the film E.T.

make you cry?

Follow along as we give ourselves cinematic brain damage from the first winner, Wings, to whatever the Academy picks in 2028.

There are 76 weeks until the 100th Oscars, and today we are going to talk about the greatest show on earth.

Surprises, disappointments, hot takes, and plenty of brain rot.

We are your hosts, Adam,

gentlemen,

boys and girls, step right up and see for yourself the spectacle, the color, the intrigue of the circus.

That is, I assume, the pitch line for Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth.

which uses the ringling brothers barnum and bailey circus as the backdrop for a story which many decry as the worst to win an oscar but we've seen the broadway melody in cimarron so we will be the judge of that

um it's one of our patron episodes yeah

yeah one of our patron episodes so yeah uh so the the the season is this episode which is about captain's courageous pinocchio how green was my valley the day the earth stood still secret of the incas lawrence of arabia dr no the birds playtime 2001 a space odyssey and then on patreon we'll be doing casablanca Rope, The Greatest Show on Earth, and The Searchers.

But I think top two this season, Playtime as the first time watch for me, Rope as Sarah gets to see it for the first time.

Although you will be watching Lawrence of Arabia for the first time as well.

I almost wonder if it's because it was easier to get the rights to Greatest Show on Earth with the studio than it was to get the rights to Captain's Courageous.

Yeah, maybe.

I haven't actually seen The Greatest Show on Earth.

Me neither.

oh

great all right well thanks awesome great discussion like i said teeing up for next week if this year's movie seemed frivolous in the face of serious oscar dramas just wait next week we go to the circus this is cecil b demille's much derided the greatest show on earth A movie often floated is one of the worst to ever win.

I'm so

excited.

I don't remember exactly how many siblings, but there's at least one other sibling who also has dwarfism, and they all worked together in a lot of movies.

And she also goes on to be in The Greatest Show on Earth, which is another famous circus set movie.

Mm-hmm.

We have conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton playing the twins here, which also I just love their names.