The Real Tom Thumb: PT Barnum's Smallest Superstar? Greatest Showman Documentary Timeline
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Erica
There's another explination to Minnie Straten. Charles had a couple of sisters. If one of them had fallen pregnant at that time it would have destroyed her future. I could see them, unable to have children, agreen to adopt the baby and agree to say it was theirs. But indent mortality rate was very high then. They would have been exprected to show her off because of their position. When she died, they would have been greif stricken. This was their child. Parents of adopted children don't love them less. The sister's future would have been in just as much danger, so yes, he signed the paper woek as the father. He was. But, after years an explination would have to be made. Where did the baby cone from. Again, protect the sister and keep their greif to themselves. I could see them saying the public doeant get this one. Making up thr story of the rentex babies so people would stop asking questions. Ita heart breaking when you think of it.
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There's another explination to Minnie Straten. Charles had a couple of sisters. If one of them had fallen pregnant at that time it would have destroyed her future. I could see them, unable to have children, agreen to adopt the baby and agree to say it was theirs. But indent mortality rate was very high then. They would have been exprected to show her off because of their position. When she died, they would have been greif stricken. This was their child. Parents of adopted children don't love them less. The sister's future would have been in just as much danger, so yes, he signed the paper woek as the father. He was. But, after years an explination would have to be made. Where did the baby cone from. Again, protect the sister and keep their greif to themselves. I could see them saying the public doeant get this one. Making up thr story of the rentex babies so people would stop asking questions. Ita heart breaking when you think of it.
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Darling
Coolest story! Just fascinating! This just goes to show that if you figure out what your God given talent is & use it to your advantage, you'll go far. Barnum didn't exploit him. He gave Charles a chance of a lifetime that he would have never gotten otherwise and Charles shined! THIS is what makes America special: The American Dream.
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Coolest story! Just fascinating! This just goes to show that if you figure out what your God given talent is & use it to your advantage, you'll go far. Barnum didn't exploit him. He gave Charles a chance of a lifetime that he would have never gotten otherwise and Charles shined! THIS is what makes America special: The American Dream.
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Chantell
We all sell what we got. Hotness, fatness, height, smallness, intelligence, vapidness, beauty, ugliness, ability, talent, etc. Whatever it is, we sell it because it is what we got. Why do we look at his condition and say it was wrong for him to sell his uniqueness when that is the heart of what showbusiness is?
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We all sell what we got. Hotness, fatness, height, smallness, intelligence, vapidness, beauty, ugliness, ability, talent, etc. Whatever it is, we sell it because it is what we got. Why do we look at his condition and say it was wrong for him to sell his uniqueness when that is the heart of what showbusiness is?
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tas
Tom Thumb was born 4. 3kg! A largish baby, there is NO way that his wife could have produced a baby. she would not have physically been able to birth or even grow a baby of any size inside her tiny body. she weighed 13kg as an adult.
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Tom Thumb was born 4. 3kg! A largish baby, there is NO way that his wife could have produced a baby. she would not have physically been able to birth or even grow a baby of any size inside her tiny body. she weighed 13kg as an adult.
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Tardis
Is it possible that Charles and Lavinia did indeed have a daughter but simply chose not want to take her on tour and so Barnum would hire babies to fill the role and when their actual daughter passed, the ruse ended?
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Is it possible that Charles and Lavinia did indeed have a daughter but simply chose not want to take her on tour and so Barnum would hire babies to fill the role and when their actual daughter passed, the ruse ended?
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education
So many questions. What happened with that baby? Where did she come from. If they loved her, why wouldn't Livina mention her in her autobiography? And what about Nutt? Did he and Livinia's sister get married?
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So many questions. What happened with that baby? Where did she come from. If they loved her, why wouldn't Livina mention her in her autobiography? And what about Nutt? Did he and Livinia's sister get married?
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Laura
This was utterly fabulous! Thank you SO much! I loved every minute of both parts. The end of all their lives and adventures was just about the best anyone could hope for. Lovely
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This was utterly fabulous! Thank you SO much! I loved every minute of both parts. The end of all their lives and adventures was just about the best anyone could hope for. Lovely
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Bill
what a horrible response to 'why the govt should give money to artists'.
the rest was brilliant. thank you.
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what a horrible response to 'why the govt should give money to artists'.
the rest was brilliant. thank you.
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Evan
Well if the baby was a stunt then the funeral was a stunt. Couldnt they have just buried an empty casket?
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Well if the baby was a stunt then the funeral was a stunt. Couldnt they have just buried an empty casket?
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CED
41: 52 when she (Stratton's wife) died in 1990 Am I the only one listening to what is actually being said?
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41: 52 when she (Stratton's wife) died in 1990 Am I the only one listening to what is actually being said?
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