The Mighty Barnum

The Mighty Barnum
Directed by	Walter Lang
Produced by	Darryl F. Zanuck
Written by	Gene Fowler (play and screenplay); Bess Meredyth (play and screenplay); John Huston (uncredited)
Starring	Wallace Beery; Adolphe Menjou; Virginia Bruce; Rochelle Hudson
Music by	Alfred Newman
Cinematography	J. Peverell Marley
Edited by	Barbara McLean
Production; company	Twentieth Century Pictures
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	December 23, 1934;
Running time	85 min.
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]

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