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Hans Christian Andersen | Year: 1952 Classification: Musical Directed: - Charles Vidor Actors/Actresses: - Danny Kaye - Farley Granger Danny Kaye never disappoints For all the film's deficiencies, Danny Kaye, always an outstanding performer, manages to be engaging and quite delightful. The plot has little to do with Hans Christian Andersen, and is based quite loosely on some of his tales, not his far from whismsical life. Only the happiest parts of Andersen's least troubling stories are included (in musical adaptation) - there is no hint of the writer of the Little Match Girl or the Red Shoes. This is strictly a vehicle for a warm, kind-hearted, naive Danny Kaye portrayal. It is good entertainment, if taken as a Kaye act rather than for literary or artistic merit. Delicious performer, wonderful introduction to ballet! I fell hopelessly in love with Danny Kaye when I was 8 years old, and I'm still crazy about him many years later. . . no other performer of whom I'm aware has ever shown his unique combination of comic virtuousity, tenderness, silliness, physical bravado and dramatic depth. He could also really sing, not just comically but straightforwardly, in his naturally rich, sweet lyric-tenor voice. If you really listen to the "Inchworm" song, you will hear just how fine his voice really was. The ballet sequences in the movie transfixed me as an eight-year-old ballerina wannabe. Maybe they look hokey to present-day grownups, but I bet most kids would immediately understand. One of the best movies ever!!!! Correction I'd just like to make a correction on another customer review that I read of this movie. This was not Danny Kaye's last movie. I don't know what was, but in 1954, he did "White Christmas" with Bing Crosby, Vera Ellen and Rosemary Clooney. It's not a really important thing, I suppose, but I just wanted to make sure that the information was correct. Buy Hans Christian Andersen at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Hans Christian Andersen Search with the Priority Search Engine on Hans Christian Andersen This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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