
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
Cast

Wallace Beery
Phineas T. Barnum

Adolphe Menjou
Bailey Walsh

Virginia Bruce
Jenny Lind

Rochelle Hudson
Ellen

Janet Beecher
Nancy Barnum

Tammany Young
Todd

Herman Bing
Farmer Schultz

Lucille La Verne
Joice Heth
George Brasno
Gen. Tom Thumb
Olive Brasno
Lavinia Thumb

May Boley
Bearded Lady, J. P. Skiff

Ian Wolfe
Swedish consul

Davison Clark
Horace Greeley

George MacQuarrie
Daniel Webster

Charles Judels
Maitre D'Hotel
Mark Strong
Man in Museum (uncredited)
Robert Dunbar
Mr. Vanderbilt (uncredited)
Martin Turner
Cannibal Man
Susanne Leach
Old Dowager (uncredited)
Crew

Walter Lang
Director
Gene Fowler
Screenplay, Theatre Play

Bess Meredyth
Screenplay, Theatre Play

Barbara McLean
Editor

Allen McNeil
Editor
J. Peverell Marley
Director of Photography
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer
Omar Kiam
Costume Design
Roger Heman Sr.
Sound Engineer
Frank Maher
Sound Engineer

Alfred Newman
Original Music Composer
Richard Day
Art Direction
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