Hans Christian Andersen

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Hans Christian Andersen

film by Vidor [1952]

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Charles Vidor
Later films
…then made the family musical Hans Christian Andersen (1952), with Danny Kaye in the title role. Thunder in the East (1952) was an adventure movie starring Alan Ladd as a gunrunner in India and Deborah Kerr as the blind daughter of a missionary. With Rhapsody (1954), Vidor returned to the…
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…then made the family musical Hans Christian Andersen (1952), with Danny Kaye in the title role. Thunder in the East (1952) was an adventure movie starring Alan Ladd as a gunrunner in India and Deborah Kerr as the blind daughter of a missionary. With Rhapsody (1954), Vidor returned to the…
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Danny Kaye
…mistaken for the title character; Hans Christian Andersen (1952), featuring Kaye in a highly romanticized portrayal of the Danish master of fairy tales; White Christmas (1954), a perennial holiday favourite featuring Kaye and Bing Crosby as a song-and-dance team; The Court Jester (1956), a swashbuckler spoof and perhaps Kaye’s most-renowned…
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…mistaken for the title character; Hans Christian Andersen (1952), featuring Kaye in a highly romanticized portrayal of the Danish master of fairy tales; White Christmas (1954), a perennial holiday favourite featuring Kaye and Bing Crosby as a song-and-dance team; The Court Jester (1956), a swashbuckler spoof and perhaps Kaye’s most-renowned…
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