The young girl in question was Gracee Nelson from El Paso, Texas, who was so heartbroken that her father would still be in Afghanistan for her father-daughter dance that her mother Lanya hired the Beast character to escort her instead.
Footage and photos of Gracee as Belle stood alongside the Beast soon started to go viral, and now you can check them out and try not to immediately bawl over them, below.
While the live-action version of Beauty And The Beast did a sublime job of recreating the magical dance between the two titular characters from the 1991 animated classic, it has now been trumped by a 5-year-old girl and an unknown man in a costume.