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Jane BarnellJane Barnell (1874-?) was a US bearded lady who used a stage name Lady Olga. Jane Barnell was born in North Carolina. According to later accounts, her mother sold her to the Great Orient Family Circus who later joined the larger one. The circus took her to Germany, where she grew ill in Berlin and was left to an orphanage where his father later found her. Later, as an adult, when she was working in her grandmother's farm, she met a circus strongman who invited her to join John Robinson Circus. She tried couple of stage names and eventually settled to Lady Olga Roderick. At that time her beard was 13 inches long. Lady Olga toured for a time with number of circuses, including the Ringling Brothers circus and later joined with Hubert's Museum in the New York Times Square. She later appeared in Tod Browning's movie Freaks but later regarded it "to be an insult to all freaks everywhere". Barnell was married three times and had two children. Barnell, Jane
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