"The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1986 film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1986 Australian/American fantasy animated film and an adaptation of the 1831 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. Claude Frollo is attempting alchemy, but cannot concentrate due to his thoughts of Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer. He informs Quasimodo, his hunchbacked and deaf servant, that he needs him to assist in kidnapping Esmeralda. In the Paris streets is the poet Gringoire, who also pines for Esmeralda, and laments his dilemma through poetry. Esmeralda herself passes by, and Quasimodo tries to kidnap her on Frollo's orders. Gringoire"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1923 American romantic drama film with horror elements starring Lon Chaney, directed by Wallace Worsley, and produced by Carl Laemmle and Irving Thalberg. The supporting cast includes Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Nigel de Brulier, and Brandon Hurst. The film was Universal's ""Super Jewel"" of 1923 and was their most successful silent film, grossing $3.5 million. The film is based on Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, and is notable for the grand sets that recall 15th century Paris as well as for Chaney's performance and make-up as"
"Claude Frollo ""Monseigneur"" Claude Frollo () is the main antagonist from Victor Hugo's 1831 novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" (known in French as ""Notre-Dame de Paris""). He is the Archdeacon of Notre Dame. Dom Claude Frollo is a pious and highly knowledgeable man who was orphaned along with his younger brother Jehan when their parents died of the plague. His studies led him to become the Archdeacon of Josas, which is his position during the events of the novel. He also has a small fief which brings him a little money, most of which goes to fund his brother's alcoholism."
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame (franchise) The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a Disney media franchise, commencing in 1996 with the release of ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" is one of the few Disney films of their Renaissance era of animation (along with ""The Rescuers Down Under"", ""The Lion King"", ""Hercules"", and ""Tarzan"") to not have a female protagonist featured in the Disney Princess franchise that was created in the early 2000s, due to its female protagonist Esmeralda not being classified as a princess. This has resulted in the franchise having to rely on films,"
"composed by Alan Menken. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (franchise) The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a Disney media franchise, commencing in 1996 with the release of ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" is one of the few Disney films of their Renaissance era of animation (along with ""The Rescuers Down Under"", ""The Lion King"", ""Hercules"", and ""Tarzan"") to not have a female protagonist featured in the Disney Princess franchise that was created in the early 2000s, due to its female protagonist Esmeralda not being classified as a princess. This has resulted in the franchise having"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1939 American film starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. Directed by William Dieterle and produced by Pandro S. Berman, the film is based on Victor Hugo's 1831 novel. In Paris, France during the Late Middle Ages, Louis XI, the King of France, and Jean Frollo, the King's Chief Justice of Paris, visit a printing shop. Frollo is determined to do everything in his power to protect Paris from anything he sees as evil, including the printing press and gypsies, who at the time are persecuted and"
"Quasimodo Quasimodo (from Quasimodo Sunday) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" (1831) by Victor Hugo. Quasimodo was born with a hunchback and feared by the townspeople as a sort of monster, but he finds sanctuary in an unlikely love that is fulfilled only in death. The role of Quasimodo has been played by many actors in film and stage adaptations, including Lon Chaney, Sr. (1923), Charles Laughton (1939) and Anthony Quinn (1956), as well as Tom Hulce in the 1996 Disney animated adaptation, and most recently Michael Arden in the 2016"
"Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) Esmeralda , born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" (or ""Notre Dame de Paris""). She is a French Roma girl (near the end of the book, it is revealed that her biological mother was a French woman). She constantly attracts men with her seductive dances, and is rarely seen without her clever goat Djali. She is around 16 years old and has a kind and generous heart. Esmeralda's birth-name was Agnès. She is the love child of Paquette Guybertaut, nicknamed 'la Chantefleurie', an orphaned minstrel's daughter who"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956 film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in French Notre-Dame de Paris) is a 1956 French-Italian film version of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, directed by Jean Delannoy and produced by Raymond Hakim and Robert Hakim. It stars US actor Anthony Quinn and Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida. The film is the first version of the novel to be made in color. In the tradition of many sword and sandal spectacles, Quinn and Lollobrigida are the only two actors in the film who actually speak in English; the rest of the cast is made up of French"
"Patsy Ruth Miller Patricia Ruth Miller (born Ruth Mae Miller, January 17, 1904 – July 16, 1995) was an American film actress who played Esmeralda in ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1923) opposite Lon Chaney. Miller was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. As a girl, she had a screen test in Hollywood, but her mother was advised to take her home because she had no potential to be an actress. She was born Ruth Mae Miller but changed her name to avoid confusion with another actress, Ruth Miller, who was already active in film. After being discovered by"
"and pulls him to safety, while Frollo falls to his death. Quasimodo is finally accepted into society by the citizens of Paris as they celebrate Frollo's death and the liberation of the city. In Disney's 2002 direct-to-video sequel, ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame II"", Quasimodo (again voiced by Hulce) reappears as the protagonist. He remains a bell-ringer, still living in Notre Dame with the gargoyles. He finds love in a beautiful circus performer named Madellaine (voiced by Jennifer Love Hewitt), who ultimately reveals that she is aware that the gargoyles are alive. His love for Madellaine is briefly strained when"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame II The Hunchback of Notre Dame II is a 2002 American animated romantic musical comedy-drama film and direct-to-video sequel to the 1996 Disney animated film ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". It was produced by Walt Disney Animation Japan and Walt Disney Television Animation and completed in 1997. Unlike many Disney film sequels, almost the entire key cast of the first film returned. It has a 30% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is set six years after the events of the original film and the death of Judge Claude Frollo. Captain Phoebus serves as"
"survive at the end, but she eventually comes to love Gringoire, and, again as in that film, it is strongly implied that they stay together after he rescues her. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982 film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (sometimes known as simply Hunchback) is a 1982 British-American TV movie based on the Victor Hugo novel. It was directed by Michael Tuchner and Alan Hume, and produced by Norman Rosemont and Malcolm J. Christopher. It starred Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Lesley-Anne Down and John Gielgud. The film was produced as part of the long-running ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"""
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame (soundtrack) The Hunchback of Notre Dame: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1996 Disney animated feature film, ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". It includes songs written by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz with vocals performed by Paul Kandel, David Ogden Stiers, Tony Jay, Tom Hulce, Heidi Mollenhauer, Jason Alexander, Mary Wickes, and Mary Stout, along with singles by All-4-One/Eternal, and the film's score composed by Alan Menken. The single ""Someday"" originally performed by male R&B band All-4-One on the United States release, was redone by British R&B girl group Eternal"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical) The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a musical based on the 1831 novel of the same name written by Victor Hugo with songs from the 1996 Walt Disney Animation Studios film adaptation. The musical premiered in 1999 in Berlin, Germany as Der Glöckner von Notre Dame (""""The Bellringer of Notre Dame""""). It was produced by Walt Disney Theatrical, the company's first musical to premiere outside the U.S. It ran for three years, becoming one of Berlin's longest-running musicals. The English-language musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame had its debut at La Jolla Playhouse in"
"video games, and other merchandise that includes its characters and story alone. York Vision argues the relatively less successful nature of this franchise is ""perhaps owing to the lack of a definable ‘Princess’ character,"" although some people classify her as a princess. ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" is a 1996 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released to theaters on June 21, 1996 by Walt Disney Pictures. The 34th Disney animated feature film, and the 7th Disney Renaissance, the film is based on Victor Hugo's 1831 novel of the same name. The plot centers"
"""Monsieur Trajin"". Adrian Glew also uncovered that both the hunchback and Hugo were living in the same town of Saint Germain-des-Pres in 1833, and in early drafts of ""Les Misérables"", Hugo named the main character ""Jean Trajin"" (the same name as the unnamed hunchbacked carver's employee), but later changed it to ""Jean Valjean"". Quasimodo Quasimodo (from Quasimodo Sunday) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" (1831) by Victor Hugo. Quasimodo was born with a hunchback and feared by the townspeople as a sort of monster, but he finds sanctuary in an unlikely"
"Louise LaPlanche Louise LaPlanche (September 6, 1919 – September 7, 2012) was an American actress most active during the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s to 1940s. LaPlanche made her film debut as in the 1923 silent film, ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". LaPlanche was the sister of Rosemary LaPlanche, who was crowned Miss America in 1941. LaPlanche was born September 6, 1919. She moved from Kansas to California with her mother and sister, Rosemary. LaPlanche made her film debut at the age of three years, portraying a gypsy girl in ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" in 1923. Both"
"Hunchback (video game) Hunchback is an arcade game developed by Century Electronics and published in 1983. The game is loosely based on the Victor Hugo novel ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" and the player controls Quasimodo. Set on top of a castle wall, the player must guide the Hunchback from left to right while avoiding obstacles on a series of non-scrolling screens. The goal of each screen is to ring the Church bell at the far right. Obstacles include pits which must be swung over on a long rope, ramparts which must be jumped (some of which contain knights with"
"The Bells of Notre Dame ""The Bells of Notre Dame"" is a song from the 1996 Disney film, ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", composed by Alan Menken, with lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. It is sung at the beginning of the film by the clown-like gypsy, Clopin. It is set mainly in the key of D minor. (However, the movie is edited up a semitone, therefore playing this piece in E-flat minor.) The song bears some similarity to the poem ""The Bells"" by Edgar Allan Poe, especially the repetition of the word ""bells"" during the crescendo. The song is reprised at"
"adapt ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" came from development executive David Stainton in 1993, who was inspired to turn Victor Hugo's novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" into an animated feature film after reading the Classics Illustrated comic book adaptation. Stainton then proposed the idea to then-studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg. Following ""Beauty and the Beast"", Gary Trousdale had taken the opportunity to take a break from directing, instead spending several months developing storyboards for ""The Lion King"". Following this, Trousdale and Kirk Wise subsequently attempted developing an animated feature based on the Greek myth of Orpheus titled ""A Song of the"
"on romance, violence, suspense, and sentimentality. In 1923, Universal Pictures started producing films with horror elements. This would become the first phase of the studio's Universal Classic Monsters series that would continue for three more decades. The first of these films was ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1923) starring Lon Chaney as the hunchback Quasimodo. The film was adapted from the classic French gothic novel of the same name written by Victor Hugo in 1833, about a horribly deformed bell ringer in the cathedral of Notre-Dame. The film elevated Chaney, already a well-known character actor, to full star status in"
"Lon Chaney Leonidas Frank ""Lon"" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American stage and film actor, make-up artist, director and screenwriter. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters, and his groundbreaking artistry with makeup. Chaney was known for his starring roles in such silent horror films as ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1923) and ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1925). His ability to transform himself using makeup techniques he developed earned him the nickname ""The Man of"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Dennis DeYoung album) The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a recording of music written by Dennis DeYoung for his musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". The musical was performed at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville to some very positive reviews. This recording was commercially released directly by DeYoung and is an early version of the score, with DeYoung performing all of the male parts and his sister-in-law Dawn Marie performing the female parts. Several songs are related to Styx and solo DeYoung releases. ""Beneath the Moon"" is a"
"also appeared in the straight-to-video sequel, ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame II"", as the host for the Festival of Love (Le Jour D'Amour, ""the day of love""), although he is no longer the narrator and plays a much smaller role. Clopin Trouillefou Clopin Trouillefou (, literally ""Lame Terror-Mad"") is a fictional character first created in the 1831 novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" by French author Victor Hugo, and subsequently adapted. In the story, Clopin disrupts Pierre Gringoire's play, begging the audience for money. Later that night, Gringoire runs into him once again in the Court of Miracles, where Clopin is"
"19th-century example of the romantic-historical novel. Victor Hugo began writing ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" in 1829, largely to make his contemporaries more aware of the value of the Gothic architecture, which was neglected and often destroyed to be replaced by new buildings, or defaced by replacement of parts of buildings in a newer style. The action takes place in 1482 and the title refers to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, on which the story is centred. Alexandre Dumas also wrote several popular historical fiction novels, including ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" and ""The Three Musketeers"". George Saintsbury stated: """"Monte"
"woman in her 20s, not a 16-year-old girl as in Hugo's novel. Among the actresses who have played her over the years are: Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) Esmeralda , born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" (or ""Notre Dame de Paris""). She is a French Roma girl (near the end of the book, it is revealed that her biological mother was a French woman). She constantly attracts men with her seductive dances, and is rarely seen without her clever goat Djali. She is around 16 years old and has a kind"
"On the morning of January 6th, 1482, the day of the Feast of Fools, a chorus of congregants gather for a sermon by Claude Frollo, archdeacon of Notre Dame. They begin to narrate his backstory and that of the eponymous ‘hunchback of Notre Dame’. Years prior, orphaned brothers Jehan and Claude Frollo were taken in at Notre Dame. Jehan grows to be mischievous and deviant while Claude remains pious, reluctantly covering for his brother's misdeeds. After Jehan is caught with a gypsy woman named Florika in his room, he is expelled from Notre Dame, leaving with Florika and not being"
"Hunchback of Notre Dame"" went underway in the summer of 1993. In October 1993, directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, art director David Goetz, Roy Conli, Ed Ghertner, Will Finn, Alan Menken, and Stephen Schwartz took a trip to Paris, France for ten days; three days were devoted to exploring Notre Dame including a private tour of rarely glimpsed sites as actual passageways, stairwells, towers, and a hidden room within which Hugo set his actions. Also included were visits to the Palace of Justice and an original location of the Court of Miracles. Writer Tab Murphy was brought on board"
"Captain Phoebus ""Capitaine"" Phœbus de Châteaupers is a fictional character and one of the main antagonists in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"". He is the Captain of the King Louis XI's Archers. His name comes from Phoebus, the Greek god of the sun (also called Apollo). In the original novel, Phoebus is an antagonist. Despite being of noble birth and very handsome, he is also vain, untrustworthy, and a womanizer. He saves Esmeralda from Quasimodo and she falls in love with him. Phoebus makes a convincing show of returning her affections, but merely wants a night of"
"Clopin Trouillefou Clopin Trouillefou (, literally ""Lame Terror-Mad"") is a fictional character first created in the 1831 novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" by French author Victor Hugo, and subsequently adapted. In the story, Clopin disrupts Pierre Gringoire's play, begging the audience for money. Later that night, Gringoire runs into him once again in the Court of Miracles, where Clopin is revealed not as a beggar, but as the King of Truands (the criminals and outcasts of Paris). He prepares to execute Gringoire for trespassing, until the beautiful Esmeralda agrees to marry him in order to save him. Near the end"
"age of 30, a non-smokers lung cancer diagnosis at the age of 60, and colon cancer when she was 90 years old. Louise LaPlanche Louise LaPlanche (September 6, 1919 – September 7, 2012) was an American actress most active during the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s to 1940s. LaPlanche made her film debut as in the 1923 silent film, ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". LaPlanche was the sister of Rosemary LaPlanche, who was crowned Miss America in 1941. LaPlanche was born September 6, 1919. She moved from Kansas to California with her mother and sister, Rosemary. LaPlanche made"
"body, your voice, your speech."" In addition to studying at the Playhouse, O'Brien took classes with the Columbia Laboratory Players group, which emphasized training in Shakespeare. O'Brien began working in summer stock in Yonkers. He made his first Broadway appearance at age 21 in ""Daughters of Atreus"". He played a grave digger in ""Hamlet"", went on tour with ""Parnell"", then appeared in Maxwell Anderson's ""The Star Wagon"", starring Lillian Gish and Burgess Meredith. O'Brien's theatre work attracted the attention of Pandro Berman at RKO, who offered him a role as the romantic lead in ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1939)."