Anna (Frozen) Disney considered collaborating with Samuel Goldwyn to produce a biography film of Hans Christian Andersen. However, the story and particularly the Snow Queen character proved to be too problematic to Disney and his animators. Namely one of the troubles they encountered was that the original story lacked necessary interaction between the main protagonist, Gerda (who later served as an inspiration for Anna), and the Snow Queen. Most obviously, Andersen's version did not feature any confrontation between them: when brave little Gerda enters the Snow Queen's ice castle and sheds her tears on Kay, the Snow Queen is nowhere to be
The King and the Mockingbird but in Andersen's tale the shepherdess is afraid of the wide world and the duo return; this is echoed in the movie where the statue predicts that they will return. The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird is a 1952 animated film based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It was known as La bergère et le ramoneur. The voice cast consisted of: Originally titled "La Bergère et le Ramoneur" ("The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep"), Grimault and Prévert began the film in 1948 (following their first collaboration, "Le Petit soldat" (The Little Soldier), also a Hans Christian Andersen adaptation),