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7 comments:
Wade,
I think the top photo shows the entrance wardrobe for the web girls in the "Lovely Luawana Lady" aerial ballet in 1951.
This is the one they filmed for the movie and I recall Dorothy Lamour wearing this wardrobe while she sang the theme song.
Jack
Top Picture: GSOE Season - 1951
Aerial Spec: "Lovely Luawana" music by J.R. North, Lyrics, E. Ray Goetz...Check out the movie and you will see the entire aerial number.
Don't you recognize the first costume in this set? It looks to be the costume from the aerial number "lovely luawana lady" which was featured in the film the greatest show on earth. That would be 1951, correct?
Jack and Dave,
Thank you. I have to be honest and admit I have never watched the movie anymore then a few bits and pieces here and there. I would love a "circus movie" with a bit more fact and authenticity, on the other hand though.
Wade
Wade,
"The Greatest Show on Earth" has a plot that's sheer silly melodrama.
But I like the movie because of the scenes that show that mammoth circus on the move -- train being unloaded, tent erected, general scenes around the backyard.
That's what makes it a valuable document and a peek back at a world that no longer exists.
Jack
Jack,
From that perspective, yes it could be entertaining.
Wade
I was there, at the RB-B&B live performance in Wsshington D.C, that early spring evening in 1951, when "Luawana Lady" was filmed. I was four years old, and it was my first circus.
I was very impressed and remember it well - the ringmaster announced "sixty girls, on sixty poles, at the top of the tent!" Sixty seemed like an enormous number to me, and I was far more fascinated by their little xylophones (on which they played "Aloha Oe", not "Luawana Lady") than I was by Dorothy Lamour, who remained on the ground as best as I can recall.
I also was impressed by the trained bears, who went down a sliding board. Sadly, they don't appear in the movie.
But being awakened at MIDNIGHT in the car en route home to Alexandria was absolutely magical - I'd never been awake at midnight before, and thought I just might see Cinderella.
My parents and I sat above the performers' main entrance, according to my late mother, so we got a good look at everybody. Of course, the movie stars were unknown to me and the circus experience itself was the star.
Precious memories...
Susan in Ky
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