"Thumbelina (1994 film) Thumbelina (also known as Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina) is a 1994 American animated musical fantasy film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, based on the book of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen and starring the voices of Jodi Benson, Gary Imhoff and Joe Lynch, with supporting roles from Gino Conforti, Gilbert Gottfried, Carol Channing and John Hurt. The film was produced by Don Bluth Ireland Ltd., and was released to movie theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures under their Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label on March 30, 1994. The film opens with a friendly swallow"
"use to clothe our fears, the fabric cannot protect us from them."" Various adaptations of the tale have appeared since its first publication. 1919 Russian film directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, a 1987 musical starring Sid Caesar, and numerous short stories, plays, spoofs, and animated films. In 1953, theatrical short titled The Emperor's New Clothe, Produced by UPA In 1961, Croatian film (80') directed by Ante Babaja, writer Božidar Violić (see IMDB). In 1972, Rankin/Bass Productions adapted the tale as the first and only musical episode of ABC series ""The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye"" series, featuring Danny Kaye, Cyril Ritchard,"
"Million Dollar Mermaid Million Dollar Mermaid (also known as The One Piece Bathing Suit in the UK) is a 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer biographical musical film of the life of Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. from a screenplay by Everett Freeman. The music score was by Adolph Deutsch, the cinematography by George Folsey and the choreography by Busby Berkeley. George Folsey received a 1953 Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography, Color. The film stars Esther Williams, Victor Mature, and Walter Pidgeon, with David Brian and Donna Corcoran. In the late 19th"
"animate Andersen's fairy tales. The animated sequences would be based on some of Andersen's best known works, such as ""The Little Mermaid"", ""The Little Match Girl"", ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"", ""The Snow Queen"", ""Thumbelina"", ""The Ugly Duckling"", ""The Red Shoes"", and ""The Emperor's New Clothes"". However, the studio encountered difficulty with ""The Snow Queen"", as it could not find a way to adapt and relate the Snow Queen character to modern audiences. Even as far back as the 1930s and 1940s, it was clear that the source material contained great cinematic possibilities, but the Snow Queen character proved to be"
"her in the resort's fish pond, hijinks ensue. ""Million Dollar Mermaid"" (also known as ""The One Piece Bathing Suit"" in the UK) is a 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer biographical musical film of the life of Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman, played by Esther Williams. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. from a screenplay by Everett Freeman. The music score was by Adolph Deutsch, the cinematography by George J. Folsey and the choreography by Busby Berkeley. ""Million Dollar Mermaid"" not only became Esther Williams' nickname around Hollywood, but it became the title of her autobiography (New York:"
"the story was inspired in part by Andersen's friend Jenny Lind. ""The Ugly Duckling"" became one of Andersen's best loved tales and was reprinted around the world. The tale was adapted to a variety of media. Films based on the tale include two ""Silly Symphonies"" animated shorts produced by Walt Disney called ""The Ugly Duckling"". The first was produced in 1931 in black and white, and a remake in 1939 in Technicolor. The latter film won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), and was the last Silly Symphony to be made. The main difference between the Andersen"
"(1947), ""This Time for Keeps"" (1947), ""Pagan Love Song"" (1950) and ""Easy to Love"" (1953). The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The movie and its star are referenced in ""Hail, Caesar!"" Million Dollar Mermaid Million Dollar Mermaid (also known as The One Piece Bathing Suit in the UK) is a 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer biographical musical film of the life of Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. from a screenplay by Everett Freeman. The music score was by Adolph Deutsch, the cinematography by George Folsey and"
"and Me!"", and later produced a children's CG television series ""Ugly Duckling Junior"" which featured the same characters as the movie. The 1954 Tom and Jerry cartoon ""Downhearted Duckling"" is also based on the famous story. The tale has seen various musical adaptations. In 1914, the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev composed a work for voice and piano based on Nina Meshcherskaya's adaptation of the tale and, in 1932, arranged the work for voice and orchestra. This was transcribed by Lev Konov in 1996, and his opera was a great success in Russia. Other musical versions include the song “The Ugly"
"""Mary Poppins"" and ""The Jungle Book"", two of Disney's biggest hits of all time. The phenomenal box-office performance of ""The Sound of Music"" gave the major Hollywood studios more confidence to produce lengthy, large-budget musicals. Despite the resounding success of some of these films, Hollywood also produced a large number of musical flops in the late 1960s and early 1970s which appeared to seriously misjudge public taste. The commercially and/or critically unsuccessful films included ""Camelot"", ""Finian's Rainbow"", ""Hello Dolly!"", ""Sweet Charity"", ""Doctor Dolittle"", ""Star!"", ""Darling Lili"", ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"", ""Paint Your Wagon"", ""Song of Norway"", ""On a Clear Day You"
"of the 1950s include:""Guys and Dolls"", ""Wonderful Town"", ""Kismet"", ""The Pajama Game"", ""Fanny"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Silk Stockings"", ""Damn Yankees"", ""Bells Are Ringing"", ""Candide"", ""The Most Happy Fella"", ""The Music Man"", and ""West Side Story"" among others. During the 1950s, some important and award-winning dramas included: ""The Rose Tattoo"" by Tennessee Williams, ""The Crucible"" by Arthur Miller, ""Picnic"" by William Inge, ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"" adapted from the novel by Vern Sneider by John Patrick, ""The Desperate Hours"" by Joseph Hayes, ""The Diary of Anne Frank"" adapted from the book by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, ""Bus Stop"" by"
"""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937), ""Pinocchio"", ""Fantasia"" (both 1940), ""Dumbo"" (1941), and ""Bambi"" (1942), furthered the development of animated film. New animated and live-action films followed after World War II, including the critically successful ""Cinderella"" (1950) and ""Mary Poppins"" (1964), the latter of which received five Academy Awards. In the 1950s, Disney expanded into the amusement park industry, and in 1955 he opened Disneyland. To fund the project he diversified into television programs, such as ""Walt Disney's Disneyland"" and ""The Mickey Mouse Club""; he was also involved in planning the 1959 Moscow Fair, the 1960 Winter Olympics, and"
"""Starlight Express"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", ""Monty Python's Spamalot"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""West Side Story"", ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"", ""The Rocky Horror Show"", ""Fame - The Musical"", ""Never Forget"", ""Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical"", ""Cabaret"", ""Blood Brothers"", ""Saturday Night Fever"", ""Carousel"", ""Footloose - The Musical"", ""Grease"", ""Anything Goes"", ""Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake"", ""Our House"", ""Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story"", ""Carousel"", ""Tap Dogs"", ""Taboo"", ""Flashdance - The Musical"", ""Annie"", ""Annie Get Your Gun"", """", ""Dancing in the Streets"", ""Sister Act"", ""An Inspector Calls"", ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"", ""Rock of Ages"", ""Chicago"","
"Clark, ""Pollyanna"" (1920) starring Mary Pickford, ""Don't Call Me Little Girl"" (1921) starring Mary Miles Minter, ""Topsy and Eva"" (1927) starring Rosetta Duncan and Vivian Duncan, and ""The Prince and the Pauper"" (1937, based on the book by Mark Twain). Songs by Cushing included ""L'amour, toujours, l'amour"" (1922, music by Rudolf Friml), which was on several film soundtracks, and """"Love's Own Sweet Song (Sari Waltz)"" (1947). Her ""Topsy and Eva"" was among the first American musicals adapted for early television; a one-hour version aired in July 1939. ""Possibly because the program was so racist, history has chosen to forget this"
"with seven of the Tom and Jerry shorts going on to win the Academy Award: ""The Yankee Doodle Mouse"" (1943), ""Mouse Trouble"" (1944), ""Quiet Please!"" (1945), ""The Cat Concerto"" (1946), ""The Little Orphan"" (1948), ""The Two Mouseketeers"" (1951), and ""Johann Mouse"" (1952). Tom and Jerry was eventually tied with ""Disney's Silly Symphonies"" as the most-awarded theatrical cartoon series. Hanna and Barbera also produced/directed for ""MGM cartoon studio"" half a dozen ""one-shot theatrical shorts"" besides ""Tom and Jerry series"", including ""Gallopin' Gals"" (1940), ""Officer Pooch"" (1941), ""War Dogs"" (1943) and ""Good Will to Men"" (1955). Fred Quimby retired in 1955, with"
"starring Gertrude Lawrence as Anna and the mostly unknown Yul Brynner as the king. This musical featured the hit songs ""I Whistle a Happy Tune"", ""Hello, Young Lovers"", ""Getting to Know You"", ""We Kiss in a Shadow"", ""Something Wonderful"", ""I Have Dreamed"", and ""Shall We Dance?"" It was adapted for film in 1956 with Brynner re-creating his role opposite Deborah Kerr (whose singing was largely dubbed by Marni Nixon). Brynner won an Oscar as Best Actor for his portrayal, and Kerr was nominated as Best Actress. Brynner reprised the role twice on Broadway in 1977 and 1985 and in a"
"her money so the king sends out count Danilo to seduce her. According to MGM records the film made $2,232,000 in the US and Canada and $2,268,000 overseas resulting in a profit of $27,000. The Merry Widow (1952 film) The Merry Widow is a 1952 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It starred Lana Turner (singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin) and Fernando Lamas. The film received two Academy Award nominations: for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Color (Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams) and Best Costume Design, Color."
"popular musicals of the 1950s include ""Love Me Tender"" which starred Elvis Presley, ""High Society"", ""An American in Paris"", ""Singin' in the Rain"", ""Guys and Dolls"", ""The Band Wagon"", ""Show Boat"", ""Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"", ""Gigi"", ""Daddy Long Legs"", ""Funny Face"", ""Calamity Jane"", ""Porgy and Bess"", ""Carmen Jones"", and many others. The Walt Disney Studios enjoyed a decade of prosperity with animated feature-length films ""Cinderella"", ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Lady and the Tramp"" (Disney's first wide-screen animated film), and ""Sleeping Beauty"". The studio began producing live-action period and historical films such as ""The Sword and the Rose"", ""Davy"
"on the songs of Queen). Live-action film musicals were nearly dead in the 1980s and early 1990s, with exceptions of ""Victor/Victoria"", ""Little Shop of Horrors"" and the 1996 film of ""Evita"". In the new century, Baz Luhrmann began a revival of the film musical with ""Moulin Rouge!"" (2001). This was followed by ""Chicago"" (2002); ""Phantom of the Opera"" (2004); ""Dreamgirls"" (2006); ""Hairspray"", ""Enchanted"" and """" (all in 2007); ""Mamma Mia!"" (2008); ""Nine"" (2009); ""Les Misérables"" and ""Pitch Perfect"" (both in 2012), ""Into The Woods"" (2014) and ""La La Land"" (2016), among others. Dr. Seuss's ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"" (2000)"
"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"
"Other successful animated musicals included ""Aladdin"", ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", and ""Pocahontas"" from Disney proper, ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" from Disney division Touchstone Pictures, ""The Prince of Egypt"" from DreamWorks, ""Anastasia"" from Fox and Don Bluth, and """" from Paramount. (""Beauty and the Beast"" and ""The Lion King"" were adapted for the stage after their blockbuster success.) In the 21st century, movie musicals were reborn with darker musicals, epic drama musicals and comedy-drama musicals such as ""Moulin Rouge!"", ""Chicago"", ""Dreamgirls"", """", ""Les Misérables"", and ""La La Land"" all of which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture"
"Ugly Duckling). In 2010, Garri Bardin directed a feature-length stop-motion musical of the story set to Tchaikovsky's ballet music. In 2012, a musical adaptation of the story, with ten original songs, was released by JJ’s Tunes & Tales. The album, titled “The Ugly Duckling: Story with Songs” contains both songs and spoken narration, and was released independently on CD Baby and iTunes. Examples of song titles include: Hatching of the Eggs; A Better Place; Song of the Swans; What’s the Matter with You; It’s a Big, Big World; Pretty Good Place to Live. ""GivingTales"" – in 2015 a storytelling app"
"directed by Amon Miyamoto. It premiered at the Kennedy Center in February 2008. The musical is suggested by a Japanese story, about Boonah, the tree-climbing frog. He wrote the lyrics and book with Jeffrey Hatcher for the musical ""Lucky Duck"", with music by Henry Krieger. It premiered Off-Broadway at the New Victory Theater in March 2012. The musical starts where the fairy tale ""The Ugly Duckling"" ends, ""showing what happens once one becomes beautiful."" It premiered at TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, California, in 2000, then called ""Everything's Ducky"". He wrote the book and lyrics for the musical ""The Last Smoker in"
"""Pan and the Young Shepherd"" by Maurice Hewlett. In 1926, he collaborated with Laurence Stallings on ""Deep River"", a voodoo-themed opera set in New Orleans in 1835. It opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on October 4 and ran for 32 performances. Harling began his Hollywood career in 1928. His film credits include ""The Vagabond King"", ""This Is the Night"", ""So Big!"", ""A Bill of Divorcement"", ""Blonde Venus"", ""A Farewell to Arms"", ""The Bitter Tea of General Yen"", ""Monte Carlo"", ""Souls at Sea"", and ""Penny Serenade"". Harling won the Academy Award for Best Music Scoring for ""Stagecoach"" (1939) and"
"1952, when it was replaced by ""My Cousin Rachel"". It moved back to first place on May 25, 1952, and remained another 15 weeks, before being supplanted by ""The Silver Chalice"", and last appeared on August 23, 1953, after 122 weeks on the list. In 1954 Columbia Pictures released the film ""The Caine Mutiny"" starring Humphrey Bogart as Queeg in a widely acclaimed performance that earned him the third and final Academy Award nomination of his career. After the novel's success, Wouk adapted the court-martial sequence into a full-length, two-act Broadway play, ""The Caine Mutiny Court Martial"". Directed by Charles"
"was not well-received upon its original release. Lucky Me (film) Lucky Me is an American musical comedy film which stars Doris Day, Robert Cummings, and Phil Silvers, and features Eddie Foy, Jr., Nancy Walker, and Martha Hyer. Made and released in 1954, it was the first musical film made in CinemaScope, and filmed in Warner Color. Candy Williams (Doris Day) is a member of a struggling Vaudeville troupe that is stranded in Miami when creditors take all their money. After the troupe's leader Hap Schneider (Phil Silvers) tries to scam a restaurant out of dinner, they are forced to work"
"film ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"". As staged in the film ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"" (1942), starring James Cagney, this sentimental song is lightened by a scene in which her luggage springs open. Her male admirers politely gather her bloomers and petticoats, and repack for the blushing Mary, while they continue singing. Forty-five Minutes from Broadway Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about New Rochelle, New York. The title refers to the 45-minute train ride from New Rochelle to Broadway. The musical debuted on January 1, 1906 at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway and ran"
"(1995) and (2011), ""Cinderella"" (1996), ""Bye Bye Birdie"" (1997), ""Oliver!"" (1998) and (2009), ""Guys and Dolls"" (1999), ""The Music Man"" (2000), ""Mame"" (2001), ""Grease"" (2003), ""Hello, Dolly!"" (2005), ""Damn Yankees"" (2006), ""West Side Story"" (2007), ""City of Angels"" (2008), ""Crazy for You"" (2012), ""Seussical"" (2013), ""Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"" (2015), ""Mary Poppins (musical) "" (2016) "" Shrek the Musical "" (2017), and "" The Little Mermaid (musical) "" (2018) East Rockaway High School East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School (often abbreviated ERHS) is a co-educational six-year secondary school in East Rockaway, New York, and the sole high school in"
"Dumbbells in Ermine Dumbbells in Ermine is a 1930 American early talkie pre-Code comedy film based on the 1925 play ""Weak Sisters"" by Lynn Starling. The film stars Robert Armstrong and Barbara Kent, and features Beryl Mercer, James Gleason, and Claude Gillingwater. In a small town in Virginia, Barbara Kent, is being forced into a marriage with a missionary reformer by her socially prominent parents. Kent meets Robert Armstrong, a prizefighter, and falls in love with him. Armstrong's manager, played by James Gleason, tries to dissuade Armstrong from the relationship. Nevertheless, Kent's grandmother, played by Beryl Mercer, and her uncle,"
"as an organization for once famous child stars. The 'members' (all of whom portrayed themselves) really were Hollywood 'has-beens', and this was among the last films many of these performers appeared in. Members include actor/singer Bobby Breen, four-year-old ""Baby Sandy"" (Universal Pictures' answer to Shirley Temple), former ""Our Gang"" stars Carl ""Alfalfa"" Switzer and George ""Spanky"" McFarland (reunited on film for the final time), musicians ""Butch"" and ""Buddy"" (Kenneth Brown and Billy Lenhart), actress Cora Sue Collins, actor Robert Coogan, dancer Grace Costello, drummer Karl Kiffe and the Faulkner Orchestra. Johnny Doughboy Johnny Doughboy is a 1942 film directed by"
"film ""Hans Christian Andersen"" starring Danny Kaye where the ballet scene for ""The Little Mermaid"" is danced near the end of the film (starting around 1:23 min). Frederick Ashton used the Sonata for his 1963 ballet ""Marguerite and Armand"", created for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, based on ""The Lady of the Camellias"" by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The original performances used an orchestral transcription of the Sonata by Humphrey Searle. An organ transcription of the Sonata was made in 1984 by Bernhard Haas. There is also a transcription of the Sonata for solo cello made by cellist Johann Sebastian Paetsch"
"A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes: ""Cinderella"" (1950) - Ilene Woods 19. Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo: ""Cinderella"" (1950) - Verna Felton/Ilene Woods/James McDonald 20. I'm Late: ""Alice In Wonderland"" (1951) - Bill Thompson/Kathryn Beaumont 21. The Unbirthday Song: ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1951) - Jerry Colonna/Ed Wynn/Kathryn Beaumont 22. The Second Star To The Right: ""Peter Pan"" (1953) - The Jud Conlon Chor 23. You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!: ""Peter Pan"" (1953) - Bobby Driscoll/Kathryn Beaumont/Paul Collins/Tommy Luske 24. Bella Notte: ""Lady And The Tramp"" (1955) - Bill Hamlin/Oliver Wallace 25. Once Upon A Dream: ""Sleeping Beauty"" (1959)"
"Trip to Bountiful"" (1953) starring Lillian Gish, Jo Van Fleet and Eva Marie Saint, ""The Traveling Lady"" (1954) with Kim Stanley, Tennessee Williams' ""27 Wagons Full of Cotton"" (1955) with Maureen Stapleton, ""Sunrise at Campobello"" (1958) which won him the Tony Award for Best Direction, the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical ""The Sound of Music"" (1959) starring Mary Martin, which earned him another Tony nomination, ""Daughter of Silence"" (1961), ""Lord Pengo"" (1962) with Charles Boyer and Agnes Moorehead, ""Jennie"" (1963) with Mary Martin and ""Catch Me if You Can"". He also restaged the 1954 Mary Martin ""Peter Pan"""
"box office disaster. Wilcox formed a new production company, Everest, and made two musicals with Neagle and Errol Flynn: ""Lilacs in the Spring"" (1954), based on ""The Glorious Years"", and ""King's Rhapsody"" (1955), based on a musical by Ivor Novello. Both flopped and plans to make a third Novello film, ""Perchance to Dream"" did not happen. Wilcox had a hit with ""My Teenage Daughter"" (1956), a story of Neagle dealing with a juvenile delinquent daughter played by Sylvia Syms. Less successful was ""These Dangerous Years"" (1957), produced by Neagle and directed by Wilcox, starring George Baker and Frankie Vaughan, and"