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5r224 GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH wardrobe reference and script December 20, 1950 with lots of photos!

Date Sold 9/5/2010
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An Original Vintage Movie Script (measures 8 1/2" x 11" [22 x 28 cm], 327 pages) (Learn More)

Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth, the classic 1952 Cecil B. DeMille (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award) big top circus romantic love triangle melodrama ("Produced with the cooperation of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus"; "Mightiest Motion Pictures"; "Story by Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, and Frank Cavett"; "Screenplay by Fredric M. Frank, Barre Lyndon and Theodore St. John"; "The Most Dangerous Place In The World... For Lovers To Meet!"; "Actually filmed under the big top!"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde (as The Great Sebastian), Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame, James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart), Henry Wilcoxon, Lyle Bettger, Lawrence Tierney, Emmett Kelly (the real-life circus clown, perhaps the most famous one ever, in a cameo role, as himself!), Cucciola, Antoinette Concello, John Kellogg, John Ridgeley, Frank Wilcox, Bob Carson, Lillian Albertson, Julia Faye, and John Ringling North (in a cameo role as himself)
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Important Added Info: Note that this script is from December 20, 1950 and that the writers are not credited on this but that the movie credits Fredric M. Frank, Barre Lyndon and Theodore St. John. Note that this is a very unusual script! It was apparently used by wardrobe people on the set, for it is in a 3-ring binder, and along with the entire script, there is a very large first section of pages which give massive wardrobe notes on the lead characters and also many of the minor characters, and someone glued and taped in many black & white photos (of various sizes), of the characters in their costumes (on the appropriate pages)! Obviously, the wardrobe people used this book for reference while the movie was being made, so that they could insure that the actors were wearing the proper costume during each scene! See our photos of interior pages of this book to see how it was laid out.

Condition: very good. Some of the tape that was used to attach photos has darkened. There is a loose page inserted next to the cast listing page, which gives the actors who played the characters (it is interesting to note that on the cast listing page, Stewart's character is listed as "Koko", and someone crossed that out and wrote "Buttons", which ws the final character name!). There is also a loose page inserted into the script which gives the "call sheet" for Tuesday, June 5, 1951.
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