The Title
What is the "Billy Rose" part of the title for?
"Pink is my signature color."
Shelby, Steel Magnolia's
Apparently (according to online reviews of this film that liked it way more than I did), Billy Rose did the stage version and a condition of the studio getting the adaptation rights for this crappy movie was that they have his name in the title.
3.5/10
Watch 'The Greatest Show on Earth' instead.
Ignatius J. Reilly sure was right about this film...
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"It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your *beep* ing telephone. Get real."
Yes, more on Billy Rose's stage version in the trivia section which includes"
"This was Doris Day's last appearance in a full-on musical - and one of the last of the lavishly-budgeted MGM musicals as well. Despite Day being ranked the #1 box office star at the time of its release, it was widely considered a box office failure."
IMO I wouldn't go as far as to define this movie as "crappy", but noticed it doesn't seem to have a standard 'target audience' like other early 60's movies....perhaps too much circus in it, and too 'light' for adults, and too many crap games for the kids????
Unsure why this was turned out to be a failure, perhaps audiences wanted Stephen Boyd to do a 'few laps' around the tent and didn't get 'em???? :)
"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."