screenshots / 3 Ring Circus / 1954 Paramount Pictures Corporation


Comedy starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as two army buddies who join a circus after their discharge from the service.

Cast as the circus strongman is Robert McKibbon, who would appear the following year as a male harem dancer in the 1955 film Three for the Show.

Playing the lion-tamer, actor Sig Ruman had previously been cast as a German sergeant in the 1943 Johnny Weissmuller film Tarzan Triumphs.

In their November 30, 1952 appearance on television's The Colgate Comedy Hour, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed a comedy skit titled "School for Tarzans".

Filmed at the Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, California.