Annie Jones, The Bearded Lady InThe Greatest Showman, Jackman's Barnum, searching for acts, hears a beautiful singing voice emanating from the window of a warehouse where women are taking in washing. Following the resplendent melody, he stumbles on its origin, a girl with a beard hiding behind...
The Greatest Showman: Directed by Michael Gracey. With Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya. Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
“This is Me,” the soundtrack’s breakout song, is a beautifully uplifting tribute to self-acceptance and self-love, as sung byKeala Settle,who plays the bearded lady in the blockbuster hit. Check out the full lyrics to “This Is Me,” which Settle performed at the 90th annual Oscar...
“The Greatest Showman” tells the story of P.T. Barnum, a 19th century entertainer born of modest means who longed to be accepted by the upper crust of society, but this strained musical is content to play to the cheap seats. Earnest in the extreme and armed with lethal amounts of raz...
(this never occurred in real life. Barnum was a humbug but not a thief). The museum is full of fake curiosities and wax figures until Barnum conceives of his “oddities show” starring Tom Thumb (Sam Humphrey), the bearded lady Lettie Lutz (Keala Settle), the Wheeler brother and sister...
the bearded lady, leads them in a rousing cry of defiance towards a man who only cares about them when it's convenient, which is a nice moment, sure. But that's still difficult to reconcile with the overall feel-good vibe in which Barnum's enterprises are actually deemed a "celebration...
“The world was ashamed of us, but you put us in the spotlight. You gave us a real family.”– The Bearded Lady Barnum’s story resonated deeply with me because I’ve lived the majority of my life in the shadow of shame. According to Research Professor Brené Brown, there is a stark...
earning the song a Grammy Award and recognition from leaders. In the film, the song is sung by the band of “freaks” in a Circus who have been locked out of an event with “normal” people. Keala Settle plays “the bearded lady” who powerfully leads the drumming, climactic anthem whi...
Sung by Keala Settle, who plays the bearded lady inThe Greatest Showman,“This is Me” is a rousing, defiant tale of self-acceptance. “It was really inspired by the group of oddities in the film, and what they came to represent and what [director] Michael [Gracey] talked about them re...
The Greatest Showman, a montage sequence that occasionally turns into a movie musical, steers clear of any contemporary resonance and ignores meaty themes. The first-time director Michael Gracey achieves an aggressively synthetic style through kinetic editing and tidy underdog stories, but none of th...