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Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish fairy tale, set to music, about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...
...COMPLETE ANDERSEN (1,239 PP) -Heritage Press ($6.95). All the old magic of Hans Christian Andersen in one handsome volume, newly translated by Danish-born Actor Jean Hersholt, plus three tales never published before...
Hans Christian Andersen (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is an unusual cinebiography in that it candidly disclaims having anything to do with the facts of its subject's life. A foreword to the picture announces: "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 this great spinner of fairy tales...
Moss Hart's scenario follows Cobbler Andersen (Danny Kaye) from the village of Odense, where he lures the children from school with his beguiling stories, to Copenhagen, where he falls in love with a beautiful ballerina (Jeanmaire). In time, Andersen comes to realize that the ballerina is really in love with her ballet-master husband (Farley Granger). So he returns to Odense to continue telling his tales to tykes, but not before he has written a story for a ballet, The Little Mermaid, and Jeanmaire has danced it with crashing success...
...tinseled and highly colored as Andersen's children's stories were simple, direct and unadorned, the picture is Veteran Producer Goldwyn's 88th film in 38 years of moviemaking. It is also his biggest and most expensive (109 shooting days, $4,000,000 budget) production. The picture has mammoth sets-e.g., a Copenhagen square complete with shops, canal, bridge, market and opera house. It has four lavish ballets, among them the 17-minute-long Little Mermaid number, danced by lively, poodle-topped French Ballerina Jeanmaire, Choreographer Roland Petit of the Ballets de Paris, and a chorus...