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Fortunes Wheel - The Life and Legacy of the Fairview Lion Tamer (76 mins) 2015
Fortune’s Wheel is a documentary feature film about Bill Stephens, an ordinary young man in 1950s Ireland with an extraordinary ambition: to become an international circus star. It is also a love story about Bill and his young and beautiful wife Mai, from East Wall. Their double act, Jungle Capers, Bill Stephens and Lovely Partner, was a series of death-defying feats with a troupe of lions and dog…
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Contributors
- Joe Lee
- Bill Whelan
- Lorraine Kennedy
- Joe Tracy
- Martin Tracy
- Gerry Creighton Snr
- Herta Fossett
- Tom Duffy Snr
- Michael Ingoldsby
- Michael Doyle
- …
Creator
- Joe Lee
Subject
- History of Irish Circus
- Duffy’s Circus
- Fossett’s Circus
- Lion escape Fairview Dublin November 11 1951
- Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers
- Billy Carter Swing Band
- Bill Stephens
- Mai Tracy
Type of item
- Documentary Feature Film
- Moving Image
Date
- 1951 - 2015
- 1951/2015
Contributors
- Joe Lee
- Bill Whelan
- Lorraine Kennedy
- Joe Tracy
- Martin Tracy
- Gerry Creighton Snr
- Herta Fossett
- Tom Duffy Snr
- Michael Ingoldsby
- Michael Doyle
- …
Creator
- Joe Lee
Subject
- History of Irish Circus
- Duffy’s Circus
- Fossett’s Circus
- Lion escape Fairview Dublin November 11 1951
- Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers
- Billy Carter Swing Band
- Bill Stephens
- Mai Tracy
Type of item
- Documentary Feature Film
- Moving Image
Date
- 1951 - 2015
- 1951/2015
Providing institution
- Joe Lee Community Based Films
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Rights
- Copyright Joe Lee
Issue date
- 2015
Places
- Marino (Dublin, Ireland)
- Fairview (Dublin, Ireland)
- Ballybough (Dublin, Ireland)
- Dublin Zoo (Dublin, Ireland)
- Marino
- Republic of Ireland
Identifier
- #c534vb51f
Format
- image
- video
Providing country
- Ireland
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-01-10T08:54:36.784Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-01-10T09:02:18.669Z