The Mighty Barnum | |
Director: | Walter Lang |
Producer: | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Starring: | Wallace Beery Adolphe Menjou Virginia Bruce Rochelle Hudson |
Editing: | Barbara McLean |
Studio: | Twentieth Century Pictures |
Distributor: | United Artists |
Runtime: | 85 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
The Mighty Barnum is a 1934 film starring Wallace Beery as P.T. Barnum. The movie was written by Gene Fowler and Bess Meredyth, adapted from their play of the same name, and directed by Walter Lang. 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.[1]