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Listen: The World ProgramRingling Circus tent under DeMille's movie lights in Sarasota, Florida.
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N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 5
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General Note
The big top weighed twenty-one tons when dry, sixty-three tons when wet, and required seventy-three miles of rope.
The movie "Greatest show on earth" was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille. It starred Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston and James Stewart. The film would later win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1952.
Biographical Note
Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as "an American social history," which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. Steinmetz moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sarasota, Florida in 1941.
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