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Hugh Jackman stars as circus founder P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman, but the real talent of Barnum's lifetime was the Swedish opera singer, Jenny Lind. Barnum brought her to the United...
The Jenny Lind tour was a barnstormer, taking in the modern equivalent of $21 million over a nine-month engagement and spawning an American mania for all things Lind: concert tickets, women’s...
In The Greatest Showman, Hugh Jackman's PT Barnum and Rebecca Ferguson's Jenny Lind are mired in scandal, but did the circus founder really cheat?
In the movie, P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) initially becomes infatuated with Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (Rebecca Ferguson), who quits the tour in a huff after he rejects her advances. This is complete fiction, as there is no evidence that the two ever had a romantic relationship.
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.
After Heth, Barnum found several other acts to tour—notably the coup of getting the world-famous Jenny Lind, “the Swedish Nightingale,” to travel across the Atlantic to make her critically ...
Jenny Lind drove a hard bargain with Barnum, demanding that he deposit the equivalent of nearly $200,000 in a London bank as an advance payment before she would sail to America. Barnum had to borrow the money, but he arranged for her to come to New York and embark on a concert tour of the United States.
On September 1, 1859, Jenny Lind, the greatest opera performer in the world, arrives from Europe to the United States for a triumphant national tour that set astonishing box-office records and...
Lind retired from opera performances in 1849, but agreed to a 150-show tour of America the following year, to be managed by the showman P. T. Barnum. A shrewd negotiator, she secured a fee of...
Unlike what is portrayed in The Greatest Showman, Lind did complete her tour, though not with Barnum. The two reportedly parted ways because of a business disagreement, not because of a...