An attractive and enjoyable story about an unfortunate but sympathetic cobbler who turns out to be the celebrated Hans Christian Andersen . The opening scene of the movie describes it best : "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales" . This is a fictituous biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen who goes to Copenhagen along with a little boy , there they spend time and lot of adventures , featuring several of his stories , such as : Thumbelina , the Ugly Duckling, the King's New Clothes, and the Little Mermaid. The glorious story of the greatest storyteller of them all !
Musical comedy with some puerility , romance , emotion , sensibility , a lot of songs and spectacular musical numbers . Danny Kaye is superb as the famous storyteller , though resulting to be a completely fabricated fiction . Determined that he was going to make a film about the known storyteller , Samuel Goldwyn went through every conceivable permutation of filmmaker as William Wyler , stars as Gary Cooper and scripts : about 15 of'em , before ending up with this garish epic musical. The film is a Danny Kaye recital , he sings , dances , stooges , and puts faces and grimaces . It's a pretty amusing musical comedy with the master comedy actor and it displays much choreography , catching songs and musical spectacle . Although , here stands out the gorgeous Roland Petit's Ballets and the wonderful interpretation by the great ballerina Jeanmaire , she is really knock-out, specially at a ballet performance of "The Little Mermaid¨. Frank Loesser composed some charming songs for this glossy oversweet musical , such as : ¨Thumbelina¨ , ¨The Ugly Duckling¨ , ¨Anywhere I Wander¨ , ¨The Inch Worm¨ , ¨Wonderful Copenhagen¨ , ¨No Two People¨. And accompanying a colorful and brilliant cinematography in Technicolor by Harry Stradling Sr and there're remastered editions available with stereo sound and original trailer.
The picture was professional as well as competently directed by Charles Vidor and under his direction , all the dramatic and musical elements are adequately blended . Charles Vidor made two Rita Hayworth vehicles, the breezy musical Cover Girl (1944), and Vidor's principal masterpiece, the archetypal film noir : Gilda (1946). Rating : 6.5/10, above average . The flick will appeal musical comedy enthusiasts . Essential and indispensable seeing for Danny Kaye fans . This is a top-notch family entertainment. Well worth watching .
Musical comedy with some puerility , romance , emotion , sensibility , a lot of songs and spectacular musical numbers . Danny Kaye is superb as the famous storyteller , though resulting to be a completely fabricated fiction . Determined that he was going to make a film about the known storyteller , Samuel Goldwyn went through every conceivable permutation of filmmaker as William Wyler , stars as Gary Cooper and scripts : about 15 of'em , before ending up with this garish epic musical. The film is a Danny Kaye recital , he sings , dances , stooges , and puts faces and grimaces . It's a pretty amusing musical comedy with the master comedy actor and it displays much choreography , catching songs and musical spectacle . Although , here stands out the gorgeous Roland Petit's Ballets and the wonderful interpretation by the great ballerina Jeanmaire , she is really knock-out, specially at a ballet performance of "The Little Mermaid¨. Frank Loesser composed some charming songs for this glossy oversweet musical , such as : ¨Thumbelina¨ , ¨The Ugly Duckling¨ , ¨Anywhere I Wander¨ , ¨The Inch Worm¨ , ¨Wonderful Copenhagen¨ , ¨No Two People¨. And accompanying a colorful and brilliant cinematography in Technicolor by Harry Stradling Sr and there're remastered editions available with stereo sound and original trailer.
The picture was professional as well as competently directed by Charles Vidor and under his direction , all the dramatic and musical elements are adequately blended . Charles Vidor made two Rita Hayworth vehicles, the breezy musical Cover Girl (1944), and Vidor's principal masterpiece, the archetypal film noir : Gilda (1946). Rating : 6.5/10, above average . The flick will appeal musical comedy enthusiasts . Essential and indispensable seeing for Danny Kaye fans . This is a top-notch family entertainment. Well worth watching .