The Greatest Show on Earth

Well I just wrote my whole blog and when I hit post it deleted it all. So now i have to start again and think I am just going to make it a short one since I don't feel like retyping all that I had before. And since I don't think anyone actually reads this it doesn't make a difference.
The Greatest Show on Earth is considered to be one of the biggest upsets in Oscar History. It beat what was the clear favorite High Noon. This is rumored to be because High Noon was written by Carl Foreman who had just been black listed by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. High Noon was considered to be a statement against blacklisting and some including John Wayne considered it an un-American movie. So the movie about a circus won.
Cecil B. Demille is considered to be the first feature length Hollywood director. He directed 1914's 72 minute movie The Squaw Man and went on to become a great director of several big epic movies including both the 1923 and 1956 versions of The Ten Commandments. The Greatest Show on Earth is by not his best movie. It is inconsistent and has a really bad love story. The train wreck scene which amazed audience's at the time by today's standards is pretty lame. Charlton Heston was one of the best parts about the movie in one of his first movies. Also, Jimmy Stewart in a bizarre role as Buttons the clown with a dark secret did a great job too. The other actors were kind of boring and some were just annoying.
Besides The Greatest Show on Earth and High Noon the other movie from 1952 that many people consider should have won but wasn't even nominated was Singin' in the Rain.
Other Notes
First televised Oscar ceremony
The theme song for High Noon won Best Original Song and was the first song from a non-musical movie to win.