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The Mighty Barnum is a american film of genre Biography directed by Walter Lang released in USA on 23 december 1934 with Wallace Beery
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
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Add to a movie listThe Mighty Barnum is a 1934 film starring Wallace Beery as P.T. Barnum. The movie was written by Gene Fowler and Bess Meredyth, 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.
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Wallace Beery
(Phineas T. Barnum)
Adolphe Menjou
(Bailey Walsh)
Virginia Bruce
(Jenny Lind)
Rochelle Hudson
(Ellen)
Janet Beecher
(Nancy Barnum)
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