He befriends Eva Green’s French trapeze artist Colette Marchant. As in the animation, Dumbo joins the clown act for a firefighter routine, and the production cast real circus performers from around ...

After being separated from his mother, Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts; it is up to his only friend, a mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.

Both the big-eared baby elephant and Holt wind up in the clown act where the little guy gets nicknamed Dumbo. A tickling feather reveals Dumbo’s hidden talent: he can use his enormous ears to fly. The ...

“Show ‘em. Fly, Dumbo. Fly.” The original Dumbo was released in October 1941. The titular character was forced to act as a clown in a circus and was made fun of because of his large ear ...

It's said that Disney mocked his striking workers by putting a scene in where a group of clowns ... s first acts was to quash a proposed sequel that was in the works. The premise: Dumbo and ...

Vandevere hopes to make Dumbo an accessory to the act of trapeze performer Colette ... Later, miserable Dumbo is forced to wear humiliating clown makeup and to leap from soaring heights without ...

In Tim Burton’s new live-action take on Dumbo, Colin Farrell plays Holt Farrier ... Holt is also a sad circus clown who is — and this is important — hot as all hell. Whatever the reason ...

As befits a movie that celebrates the circus, creating a live-action version of the animated classic “Dumbo” proved a high-wire balancing act ... among the "Dumbo" clowns that demand a ...

Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito and Eva Green star in Tim Burton's live-action remake of 'Dumbo,' the 1941 Disney ... and incorporate it into the clown act. But a whip-cracking circus ...