Fantasy Family Music Comedy
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
Directed by
Henry Levin, George Pal
Barbara Eden
Greta Heinrich
Billy Barty
The Court Jester (segment "The Dancing Princess") (uncredited)
Russ Tamblyn
The Woodsman (segment "The Dancing Princess") / Tom Thumb
Tammy Marihugh
Pauline Grimm
Claire Bloom
Dorothea Grimm
Darby Hinton
Little Boy
Yvette Mimieux
The Princess (segment "The Dancing Princess")
Walter Slezak
Stossel
Jim Backus
The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")
Peter Whitney
The Giant
Angelo Rossitto
Dwarf
Laurence Harvey
Wilhelm Grimm / Cobbler (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
Otto Kruger
The King (segment "The Singing Bone")
Ian Wolfe
Gruber
Karlheinz Böhm
Jacob Grimm
Jon Lormer
The Doctor
Oskar Homolka
The Duke ('The Dream')
Martita Hunt
Anna Richter
Buddy Hackett
Hans (segment "The Singing Bone")
Walter Brooke
The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
Arnold Stang
Rumpelstiltskin
Gregory Morton
Dantino
Terry-Thomas
Ludwig (segment "The Singing Bone")
Cheerio Meredith
Mrs. Von Dittersdorf
Beulah Bondi
The Gypsy (segment "The Dancing Princess")
Gene Roth
Berlin Royal Academy Representative at Train Station
Bryan Russell
Friedrich Grimm
Robert Foulk
The Hunter (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
Clinton Sundberg
The Prime Minister / Hans (singing voice)
Walter Rilla
Priest
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
Flower Vendor
Betty Garde
Miss Bettenhausen
Don Sahlin
'Little Billy' Rhodes
Grumpy the Dwarf
Stanley Fafara
Hansel
Sandra Bettin
The Ballerina (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
Sydney Smith
The Spokesman (segment "The Singing Bone")
Pamela Baird
Cinderella (uncredited)
Jeanine Cashell
Princess Aide ('The Dancing Princess') (uncredited)
Diana Driscoll
Gretel
True Ellison
Snow White
Ruthie Robinson
Little Red Riding Hood
Tom Holland

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