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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