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    Hans Christian Andersen

    1953 · Children · 2h

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  1. Hans Christian Andersen is a 1952 Hollywood musical film directed by Charles Vidor and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. The screenplay by Moss Hart and an uncredited Ben Hecht is based on a story by Myles Connolly.

  2. Hans Christian Andersen: Directed by Charles Vidor. With Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire, Joseph Walsh. The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen.

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    • Biography, Family, Musical
    • Charles Vidor
    • 1953-08-14
  3. The incredibly multi-talented Danny Kaye stars as Hans Christian Andersen, a young cobbler with a special gift for storytelling. Nominated for six Academy Awards.

  4. Imaginative cobbler Hans Christian Andersen (Danny Kaye) is asked to leave his hometown because his frequent stories are distracting the children from school. From there he moves to...

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    • Danny Kaye
    • Charles Vidor
    • Kids & Family, Musical
  5. Hans Christian Andersen was Goldwyn's last film for RKO. The film was released finally in Copenhagen on September 6, 1953; however, according to a October 3, 1953 Hollywood Citizen-News article, Hans Christian Andersen was not well received in the author's hometown of Odense, Denmark.

    • Charles Vidor
    • Danny Kaye
  6. A toned-down Danny Kaye stars in this "once upon a time" fairy tale about the greatest fairy tale spinner of all, Denmark's Hans Christian Andersen, creator of the Little Mermaid. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser yield some memorable tunes, my favorite being "Inchworm" sung by Kaye and the children in the film.

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  8. A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.

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