Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emperor's Clothes has a crashing finale, but what crashes is whatever is left of a serious play. The play takes its name from the Hans Christian Andersen tale in which a small boy is the only person who dares to cry out that the parading Emperor has no clothes on. Tabori's play has all too many clothes on, but there is not much underneath...
Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish musical fairy tale about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...
...strikes natives in his anger at the sea is not concerned with reason. A man who sets out to battle demons of the deep which out-weigh and outwit him, with only his wife and bull-dog for company, cares little for security. He is an adventurer, and his tale is one of adventure...
Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish musical fairy tale in Technicolor, about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...
...Shields and his ruthlessness. Similarly, after the length and power of the second story, Shield's third betrayal is nearly an anti-climax. Dick Powcll, his victim, seems more the author of mystery stories than prize-winning novels and the plot of this sequence is but a soapy tale from radio serials. But Gloria Grahame, as a latter day Southern belle, drawls with a sultry sugared accent, more than covering any weaknesses in the episode...