Word: aerialist
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...plot is simply incredible--something about a girl aerialist who, when spurned by her sawdust impressario for a sick hippo, falls head over heels in love with a daring young man who falls head over heels off his 60 foot trapeze and does a triple somersault into the hospital...
...Determined to extend a ten-week itinerary into a full season, Charlton Heston, the circus' gruff but devoted manager, promises his reluctant bosses (including John Ringling North himself) to show a profit. He imports Sebastian the Great (Cornel Wilde), a daring high-trapeze artist, thereby queering himself with Aerialist Betty Hutton, who must move out of the center ring. Betty starts a performing feud with Wilde, goads him into a fall that cripples...
Family Fans. Betty's marriage (in Las Vegas on July 5, 1943) to Harry Haag James, the trumpeter son of a circus bandmaster and an aerialist mother, was all that a fan-magazine editor could ask for. James himself is no minor breadwinner ($100,036 in 1946). When he married Betty, the Grable fan clubs and the James fans merely merged into "The James Family Fan Clubs." When Betty had her first baby, her G.I. admirers promptly wrote their No. i pin-up girl to tell her all about their wives and their babies...
...Great Alberti and the Great Alzanas more than counterbalance the absent Great Wallendas. They even counterbalance the present Great Rose Gould, a highly publicized aerialist who does little more than hold on tightly to a rope as she plummets earthwards. Alberti stands on his head on a 50-feet pole and, as the audience watches in silent dismay, causes the pole to sway back and forth. Alzanas skips rope on a high wire, his father standing 40 feet below in the interest of safety, if you can call it that. He indulges one of history's most perverse senses...
...Mlle Elly Ardelty, an aerialist not only of daring but of great chic who stands on her head inside a swinging trapeze...