![]() While romantic tension between Lind and Barnum was completely fictionalized in The Greatest Showman, a few things about their relationship were accurately portrayed in the movie. ![]() As Entertainment Weekly reports, Lind gave 93 concerts in America, which earned her $350,000, and Vanity Fair suggests those earnings would equal something closer to $20 million today. According to Vanity Fair, it wasn't a strained relationship that caused the opera singer to end her tour with Barnum early but rather, the singer just grew tired of life on the road after traveling for nine months. While Lind's feelings for Barnum end up ruining the two performers' relationship in the movie, nothing of the sort happened in real life. ![]() ![]() In both the movie and real life, Barnum had a wife named Charity (Michelle Williams). The movie portrays Barnum as being infatuated by the talented singer (played by Rebecca Ferguson), which leads Lind herself to fall for her U.S. Even though Barnum's colorful life didn't exactly need added embellishments in the film, The Greatest Showman - which is in theaters now - creates a dramatized telling of the relationship. ![]() Barnum brought her to the United States for a hugely popular national tour, but Lind and Barnum's relationship in real life was much different than how the movie musical portrays it. Barnum in The Greatest Showman, but the real talent of Barnum's lifetime was the Swedish opera singer, Jenny Lind. Hugh Jackman stars as circus founder P.T. ![]()
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