Genres
Production Companies
Bavaria Film
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
WONDERFUL THRILLS! ADVENTURE! ROMANCE!
Overview
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."
Key Crew
Screenplay: David P. Harmon, Charles Beaumont, William Roberts
Director: George Pal, Henry Levin
Story: Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm
Director of Photography: Paul Vogel
Producer: George Pal
Top Cast
Laurence Harvey
Wilhelm Grimm / Cobbler (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
Karlheinz Böhm
Jacob Grimm
Claire Bloom
Dorothea Grimm
Walter Slezak
Stossel
Barbara Eden
Greta Heinrich
Oskar Homolka
The Duke ('The Dream')
Arnold Stang
Rumpelstiltskin
Martita Hunt
Anna Richter
Videos
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) Cinerama trailer
