"Which 1952 Hollywood musical film starring Danny Kaye includes many most famous stories such as ""The Ugly Duckling"", ""Thumbelina"", ""The Emperor's New Clothes"" and ""The Little Mermaid""?"
Hans Christian Andersen (film) great spinner of fairy tales." Kaye, in the title role, portrays Andersen as a small-town cobbler with a childlike heart and a vivid imagination. A large part of the narrative is told through song and ballet and includes many of the real Andersen's most famous stories, such as "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbelina", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid". The film was an international success at the time of its release. In the 1830s, in the small Danish town of Odense, cobbler Hans Christian Andersen spends his day spinning fairy tales for the village children, teaching them lessons about
The Daydreamer (film) tiny girl no bigger than a thumb, a mermaid, a devil boy in Eden, and others. In reality, as well as in his dreams, Hans is searching for the Garden of Paradise, which in reality, he does not find. The dream sequences are puppet animation, complete with a puppet version of himself. These dreams become the basis for his fairy tale fictions, which he writes as an adult: "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "Little Claus and Big Claus", and "The Garden of Paradise". A soundtrack album was issued by Columbia Records featuring all of