A Newspaper Strike And Snowstorm Cost Billy Rose's Jumbo From Being Box Office Smash
Billy Rose's Jumbo 1962 - Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Martha Ra - Bing video
This wonderful movie, you're passing
up watching, because something that had
happened sixty years ago.
MGMs Billy Rose's Jumbo was to
be a box office smash. Continue reading,
to see, why a brilliant movie, was being
ambushed because of two things MGM
had no control over and why you should
all the stars, in this monumental movie,
a place in your heart to see. Jumbo the
three-thousand-pound elephant is a star
as Kitty said played by Doris Day in this
famous musical movie with an all-star
cast. The top four are: Doris Day,
Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, and
Martha Raye. It will take time to find
the rest in the credits, but give me some
time, and I'll find as many listed in this
beautiful movie.
Did you know, Jumbo the elephant,
has feelings? Look at his eyes as he cries
real tears. He's a star just the rest the
cast is.
But I think all the animals are stars
too. Take for example the seals that get on
their ladder base, and climb up so they
can have the swirling red and white large
ball land on their noses.
What about the little dog that does,
summersault flips for Kitty in the
beginning of the movie. No, you can't
have a better movie. Why? this was
before computers, to make larger than
life 3D simulation. This was real, from
the brawny strong men hammering in
the large tent pins for the large tent to
house everyone, including the paying
customers and all the animals in their
cages. You're having your family miss,
a real treat of an actual circus, as was
done in 1935. It opened on Broadway
famous at Hippodrome, in New York
Jimmy Durante was the main star,
with the directors: John Murry-
Anderson and George Abbott.
The other stars were, Donald Novis
and Gloria Grafton.
Jumbo opened on 11/16/1935 and
closed on 04/18/1936 after 233 greats
performances. If you look, you will see,
the famous Hippodrome in New York.
This includes the inside as well.
This was shown in this building, in
1935, and the building was started in
1905 in New York. The building was
torn down. However, here's the very
picture of this building and the inside
too.
In New York, Billy Rose's Jumbo,
opened up at Radio City Musical Hall.
The main cast members: Doris Day,
Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, and
Martha Raye. (The rest the cast will
be added later.)
This didn't do well at the box office,
because in 1962 there was a newspaper
strike and a snowstorm, which deadly
combination cost it at the box office.
Your children will get a kick out the
animals, but Jumbo is a star, as
Doris Day would have said.
The movie is wonderful to watch.
Doris Day sings her heart out, while
helping others with their training. A
prime example, is encouraging a girl, to
get back on her swing. Kitty, (Day)
sings to her. he helps a young man, by
encouraging him, and he does it.
Yet most persons are programed by
the media. The media has neither has a
heart or feelings. It's mechanical, like a
robot. Jumbo has more heart and feelings,
then the media would ever have.
Give Billy Rose's Jumbo a fair shake,
see the elephant Jumbo be a comedian
and a star. Watch the seals balance the
large red and white swirl ball on their
nose.
This movie was only up for five weeks.
Think about Doris Day and the top
cast, who had their hearts crushed.
This was before computers, and you
watch strong men building the tent for the
circus. They are hammering the pins in,
and the big tent is raised.
Parents, this movie about the big
top circus struggling to stay afloat. It's
entertainment with accurate details
which includes everything you would
see in a circus.
Is that really fair? You don't watch
a seven-ton African bull elephant who
plays his own musical notes on his horn.
You miss a large elephant, play mad
elephant. (The Original Jumbo was
seven-ton African bull. I must find more
research, to find how much this weight
for this elephant. Yes, the downfall is
these teary-eyed African bulls, are very
docile. The original Jumbo drank much
whiskey with Scott. Yes, when Scott
forgot one night to share whiskey with
Jumbo to drink, he pulled out of his bed.
Jumbo was a real elephant with a very
tiny elephant Tom Thumb. However,
this was screen play, taken from real life.
They admit Tom Thumb for good reason.
Both on Broadway in 1935-1936 and
the musical Billy Rose's Jumbo in 1962,
have a happy ending. Please keep this
version in your mind. I know the true
story of Jumbo. Keeps this comical,
beautiful elephant in your mind and
heart. (If you're a Jumbo historian, I
advice you keep to yourself, and lock
in the back of your mind and throw
away the key. They wanted to make
this a happy ending. In my mind, I'll
keep the happy ending. Think of both,
your children and grandchildren. Give
them a happy story about a struggling
circus, that makes it through, even after
the storm rips through the large tent.
Everyone is alive including Jumbo.)
You miss Doris Day as ballerina, and
also, many acts from her white horse, to
standing up and getting up in the air.
You miss all her singing, as well as
a full cast Jimmy Dorante, as a clown,
ring master and more.
The cast is an all-star cast.
A storm rips the main tent, the girls
are human butterflies, which meant,
each woman, had to bite down on a bit
in mouth, while in the air as beautiful
butterflies. I have found not another
movie that shows this.
The men have positioned the nets for
one woman to jump at a time into the
net. Kitty (Doris Day), said she can
hold on get the other ladies first.
Kitty is saved by the character,
who's played by Stephen Boyd.
Kitty said:" I was really scared."
The character played by Stephen Boyd,
said" I was scared too."
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