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Sandor Raski portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1986 TV film Barnum. Ed Gale portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1995 TV film Tad. Josh Ryan Evans portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1999 TV film P.T. Barnum. Sam Humphrey portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 2017 musical film The Greatest Showman.
He made his film debut in the historical drama musical film The Greatest Showman, he played Charles Stratton, a dwarf performer who is also known by his stage name of General Tom Thumb. As he was taller than the real Tom Thumb, he had to walk on his knees and his voice was digitally altered to sound deeper. [citation needed] [5]
The Greatest Showman is a 2017 American biographical musical drama film directed by Michael Gracey from a screenplay by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon, based on an original story by Bicks. The film stars Hugh Jackman , Zac Efron , Michelle Williams , Rebecca Ferguson , and Zendaya .
The Oddities – including Tom Thumb, trapeze artist siblings Ann and WD (Zendaya and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), Dog Boy, a giant, a strongman, and more – are the heart and soul of this movie ...
He was born on May 21, 1841, in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. [2]Although normal for most of his childhood, Sprague began irreversibly losing weight at age 12 after feeling ill after swimming.
Barnum is an American musical with a book by Mark Bramble, lyrics by Michael Stewart, and music by Cy Coleman.It is based on the life of showman P. T. Barnum, covering the period from 1835 through 1880 in America and major cities of the world where Barnum took his performing companies.
Some museum-goers believed they were being "humbugged" by Barnum though. They thought that Nutt was really General Tom Thumb in disguise. [14] Nutt did look like the Tom Thumb of the past, but Thumb had aged and put on weight over the years—a fact museum-goers either forgot or ignored. [17]
By 1849, when Lind was in the middle of her third triumphant London season, the American showman P. T. Barnum had become aware of her success and the large audiences she attracted. He had toured Europe in 1845 and 1846 with his first great attraction, General Tom Thumb.