The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

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."

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  Laurence Harvey

  Wilhelm Grimm / Cobbler (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
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  Karlheinz Böhm

  Jacob Grimm
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  Claire Bloom

  Dorothea Grimm
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  Walter Slezak

  Stossel
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  Barbara Eden

  Greta Heinrich
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  Oskar Homolka

  The Duke ('The Dream')
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  Arnold Stang

  Rumpelstiltskin
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  Martita Hunt

  Anna Richter
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  Betty Garde

  Miss Bettenhausen
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  Bryan Russell

  Friedrich Grimm