A Greatest Indicate olympic games is the slogan for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. These are besides the title of a 1952 film set in that circus. A film was produced, directed, & potentially narrated by Cecil B. DeMille.

A film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring, and Charlton Heston as a circus manager going the indicate. the triplet come as well taking part within a romantic triangle. More subplots require performing artist played by Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame, and the clown who never removes his makeup, played by Jimmy Stewart. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby get cameo roles as circus spectators.

Behind-a-scene melodrama is interweaved with about documentary-style scenes of realistic circus performances inside shower costumes (by Edith Head and others), and towards a prevent, a outstanding scene involving them trains that carry the circus from either town to town.

A pic won an Academy Award for Best Picture. It too won an Oscar for Best Story.

Controversies
Best picture award

Despite its awards, A Greatest Indicate olympian games hwhen typically been cited by film historiographer & film buffs as one of Cecil B. DeMille's lesser motion pictures. Discussions among film fans (especially using your internet browser picture show newsgroups) have jokingly referred to this film when "the worst movie ever to win Best Picture." Supporters of this belief especially note that High Noon and The Quiet Man are generally held within higher critical eclat.

Euthenasia
Jimmy Stewart's clown character occurs as doctor running off from either a law. He removes his makeup because wants to remain undetected when a "mercy killing" of his terminally ill wife. A bit of critics imagine that a "Best Picture" Oscar was Hollywood's method of voicing trend lines for the mercy killing.