Funniest Show on Earth
Funniest Show on Earth is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring May Britt.
It is the first Italian film in 3D.
It was filmed with a three- dimensional shooting system patented by Carlo Ponti and Dino De Laurentiis and called" PoDelVision"( from the initials of their surnames), which prescribed the simultaneous use of more cameras and then the printing of two identical copies of films: one for the left eye and one for the right eye.
The film is an explicit parody of Cecil B. DeMille's" The Greatest Show on Earth".
Theodore St. John
Theodore St John( 1906- 1956) was an American writer, actor and director of films, radio and theatre.
In 1953 he won a Best Motion Picture Story Oscar for 1952's" The Greatest Show on Earth".
He served in the army from 1942 to 1946.
He died in 1956 of self- inflicted stab wounds.
Isaac Bruce
Isaac Isidore Bruce( born November 10, 1972) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League( NFL).
He was drafted by the St.Louis Rams in the second round of the 1994 NFL Draft.
He played college football for the University of Memphis.
He is remembered as one of the members of ” The Greatest Show on Turf ”.
An All- Pro and four- time Pro Bowl selection, Bruce amassed 15,208 receiving yards in his career( fifth all- time).
He played the first 14 years with the Rams and won a Super Bowl ring with the team in Super Bowl XXXIV over the Tennessee Titans.
He also played for the San Francisco 49ers.
During his time with the Rams, he was the leading wide receiver of “ The Greatest Show on Turf ”.
An Event
An Event is a 1969 Yugoslav feature film directed by Vatroslav Mimica, based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
The Greatest Show on Earth (film)
The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in Technicolor, and released by Paramount Pictures.
Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum& Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring, and Charlton Heston as the circus manager running the show.
James Stewart also stars in a supporting role as a mysterious clown who never removes his make- up, even between shows, while Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame also play supporting roles.
In addition to the film actors, the real Ringling Bros. and Barnum& Bailey's Circus' 1951 troupe appears in the film, with its complement of 1400 people, hundreds of animals, and 60 railroad cars of equipment and tents.
The actors learned their respective circus roles and participated in the acts.
The film's storyline is supported by lavish production values, actual circus acts, and documentary, behind- the- rings looks at the massive logistics effort which made big top circuses possible.
The film won two Academy Awards, those being for Best Picture and Best Story, and was nominated for Best Costume Design, Best Director, and Best Film Editing.
It also won Golden Globe Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Director, and Best Motion Picture – Drama.
Lyle Bettger
Lyle Stathem Bettger( February 13, 1915 – September 24, 2003) was an American character actor who had roles in Hollywood films and television from the 1950s onward, often portraying villains.
One such role was the wrathfully jealous elephant handler Klaus from the Oscar- winning film" The Greatest Show on Earth"( 1952).
Vatroslav Mimica
Vatroslav Mimica( born 25 June 1923) is a Croatian film director and screenwriter.
Born in Omiš, Mimica had enrolled at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine before the outbreak of World War II.
In 1942 he joined Young Communist League of Yugoslavia( SKOJ) and in 1943 he went on to join the Yugoslav Partisans, becoming a member of their medical units.
After the war Mimica wrote literary and film reviews, and his career in filmmaking began in 1950 when he became the director of the Jadran Film production studio.
He had his directorial and screenwriting debut in the 1952 Yugoslav film" In the Storm"( Croatian:" U oluji") which starred Veljko Bulajić, Mia Oremović and Antun Nalis.
In the 1950s Mimica worked as a director and writer on a number of critically acclaimed animated films and became a prominent member of the Zagreb School of Animated Films( his 1958 animated short film" The LonerSamac") was awarded the Venice Grand Prix), along with authors such as Vlado Kristl and Academy Award- winning Dušan Vukotić.
In the 1960s Mimica moved away from animation( his last animated film was 1971 film" The FiremenVatrogasci")) and turned to directing feature films, starting with the 1961 Yugoslav- Italian film" Suleiman the Conqueror"( Italian:" Solimano il conquistatore") starring Edmund Purdom and Giorgia Moll.
His 1965 film" Prometheus of the IslandPrometej s otoka Viševice") won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the 1965 Pula Film Festival and earned Mimica a runner- up Silver Arena award for Best Director.
It was also entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival winning a Special Diploma.
The following year his 1966 film" Monday or TuesdayPonedjeljak ili utorak") also won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film and Mimica won the Golden Arena for Best Director.
Mimica made several other films through the 1970s, most notably the period films" Anno Domini 1573( Peasant revolt of 1573) Seljačka buna 1573." in Croatian- depicting the 16th century Croatian- Slovenian peasant revolt, and" The FalconBanović Strahinja"), set in 14th century Serbia, before retiring from filmmaking in 1981.
His son Sergio Mimica- Gezzan is an American film and television director.
Fritz Thiedemann
Fritz Thiedemann (3 March 1918 – 8 January 2000) was a German equestrian, considered to be one of the greatest show jumpers of his time.
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.
Between 1914 and 1958, he made a total of 70 features, both silent and sound films.
He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer- director in film history.
His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship.
His silent films were more diverse in genre, among which included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
De Mille began his career as a stage actor in 1900.
He later moved to writing and directing stage productions, some with Jesse Lasky, who was then a vaudeville producer.
DeMille's first film," The Squaw Man"( 1914), was also the first feature film shot in Hollywood.
Its interracial love story made it commercially successful and it first publicized Hollywood as the home of the U.S. film industry.
The continued success of his productions led to the founding of Paramount Pictures with Lasky and Adolph Zukor.
His first biblical epic," The Ten Commandments"( 1923), was both a critical and commercial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty- five years.
De Mille directed" The King of Kings"( 1927), a biography of Jesus, which gained approval for its sensitivity and reached more than 800 million viewers.
" The Sign of the Cross"( 1932) is said to be the first sound film to integrate all aspects of cinematic technique.
" Cleopatra"( 1934) was his first film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
After more than thirty years in film production, DeMille reached a pinnacle in his career with" Samson and Delilah"( 1949), a biblical epic which became the highest- grossing film of 1950.
Along with biblical and historical narratives, he also directed films oriented toward" neo-naturalism", which tried to portray the laws of man fighting the forces of nature.
He received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama" The Greatest Show on Earth"( 1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
His last and best known film," The Ten Commandments"( 1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the eighth- highest- grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation.
In addition to his Best Picture Awards, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d' Or( posthumously) for" Union Pacific"( 1939), a DGA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
He was the first recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was named in his honor.
DeMille's reputation as a filmmaker has grown over time and his work has influenced many other films and directors.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.

Question: Which film has the director who was born later, An Event or The Greatest Show On Earth (Film)?
Answer: An Event