The story of Lillian Leitzel, a trapeze artist who in the early 20th century was one of the biggest stars in the world as she performed for the Circus. Her tragic love affair with Alfredo Codona, one of the best trapeze artists to ever ...See moreThe story of Lillian Leitzel, a trapeze artist who in the early 20th century was one of the biggest stars in the world as she performed for the Circus. Her tragic love affair with Alfredo Codona, one of the best trapeze artists to ever exist, also was chronicled. The two were tempestuous artists, divas and madly in love. Their rise to fame is tracked, from the mud-caked small-town circuses to the big time, and their marriage and tragic deaths just a few years later.
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