Big-eared baby elephant Dumbo may be the star of Walt Disney Co.'s remake of its 1941 animated movie classic but the film was shot without its adorable star ever making an appearance on set.

Dumbo, now in adorable CGI, is born into the Medici Bros. Circus to his mom, Mrs. Jumbo. But he’s not the perfect little baby elephant the attraction’s owner, Max (Danny DeVito), dreamed of.

LOS ANGELES – Let's talk about the elephant in the room. Dumbo never showed up to the set. But it wasn't a Hollywood diva thing. The big-eyed, bigger-eared flying pachyderm was created ...

Brooklyn’s most endearing flying spectacle returned to Dumbo on May 31, as thousands of tiny toy elephants parachuted from ...