Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
December 6, 1962Release Date
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
December 6, 1962Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Doris Day
Kitty Wonder
Jimmy Durante
Anthony 'Pop' Wonder
Stephen Boyd
Sam Rawlins
Martha Raye
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Dean Jagger
John Noble
Joseph Waring
Harry
Lynn Wood
Tina
Charles Watts
Ellis
James Chandler
Parsons
James Chandler
Parsons
Robert Burton
Madison
Wilson Wood
Hank
Norman Leavitt
Eddie
Charles Walters
Director
Grady Sutton
Driver
Ben Hecht
Writer
Charles MacArthur
Writer
Billy Barty
Joey The Circus Clown
Sidney Sheldon
Writer
John Burnside
3rd Deputy
John Astin
Pilot
Martin Melcher
Producer
Herman Belmonte
Parade Spectator
Joe Pasternak
Producer
William H. Daniels
Cinematographer
Jerry Schumacher
Roustabout
Richard W. Farrell
Editor
Paul Wexler
Sharpie
E. Preston Ames
Art Direction
Henry Grace
Set Decoration
Morton Haack
Costume Design
Hugh Hunt
Set Decoration
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Release DateDecember 6, 1962
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 5m
Content RatingNR
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Billy Rose's Jumbo is a 1962 American musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, and Martha Raye. An adaptation of the stage musical Jumbo produced by Billy Rose, the film was directed by Charles Walters, written by Sidney Sheldon, and featured Busby Berkeley's choreography. It was nominated for an Academy Award for the adaptation of its Rodgers and Hart score.
The Broadway show Jumbo opened on November 16, 1935, and was the last musical produced at the New York Hippodrome before it was demolished in 1939. Original producer Billy Rose stipulated that if a film version was ever made, he must be credited in the title, even if he were not personally involved. Both play and film feature songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, although the film borrows two songs from Rodgers and Hart shows other than Jumbo (including "This Can't Be Love", from The Boys from Syracuse). Despite featuring such Rodgers and Hart standards as "My Romance" and "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", neither the original play nor the film was especially successful. The film was Doris Day's last screen musical.
Stephen Boyd's singing voice was dubbed by Los Angeles studio singer, Jimmy Joyce. On April 2, 2007, Robert Osborne of TCM, introducing the MGM film Fearless Fagan (1952) directed by Stanley Donen, said that Donen was due to direct Jumbo right after Singin' in the Rain in 1952. However, MGM decided the script was not ready, so Jumbo was not filmed until 1962 with a different director and stars. Both play and film feature Durante leading a live elephant and being stopped by a police officer, who asks him, "What are you doing with that elephant?" Durante's reply, "What elephant?", was a show-stopper in 1935. This comedy bit was reprised in his role in Billy Rose's Jumbo and is likely to have contributed to the popularity of the idiom, the "elephant in the room".