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The Daydreamer is a 1966 stop motion animated and live-action musical fantasy film produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. Directed by Jules Bass, it was written by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Romeo Muller, based on the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. It features songs by Jules Bass and Maury Laws. The film's opening features the cast in puppet and live form plus caricatures of the cast by Al Hirschfeld.

Plot

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A teenaged Hans Christian Andersen daydreams instead of studying for school. He runs away from home. Whenever he falls asleep, he dreams that he is in strange adventures with tailors, a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb, a mermaid, a devil boy in Eden, and others. In reality, as well as in his dreams, Hans is searching for the Garden of Paradise, which in reality, does not find. The dream sequences are puppet animation, complete with a puppet version of himself. These dreams become the basis for his fairy tale fictions, which he writes as an adult: The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, Big Claus and Little Claus, and The Garden of Paradise.

Musical numbers

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"Daydreamer" - Robert Goulet
"Overture" - Maury Laws
"Wishes and Teardrops" - The Little Mermaid
"Simply Wonderful" - The Emperor and His Three Minstrels
"Who Can Tell" - The Pieman of Odense
"Luck to Sell" - Chris
"Happy Guy" - Thumbelina, Chris and Chorus
"Isn't It Cozy?" - Three Bats and the Mole
"Luck to Sell"- Chris
"Finale (The Daydreamer)" - Chorus

Cast

Paul O'Keefe as "Chris" (Hans Christian Andersen)

Jack Gilford as Papa Andersen

Margaret Hamilton as Mrs. Klopplebobbler

Sessue Hayakawa as The Mole

Patty Duke as Thumbelina

Boris Karloff as The Rat

Hayley Mills as The Little Mermaid

Burl Ives as Father Neptune

Tallulah Bankhead as The Sea Witch

Victor Borge as The Second Tailor

Ed Wynn as The Emperor

Ray Bolger as The Pieman

Cyril Ritchard as The Sandman

Terry-Thomas as The First Tailor

Robert Harter as Big Claus the game warden

Additional voices

Billie Mae Richards

Larry D. Mann

James Daugherty

William Marine

Crew

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Director: Jules Bass

Writer/Producer: Arthur Rankin, Jr.

Executive Producer: Joseph E. Levine

Associate Producer: Larry Roemer

Adaptation from the Stories and Characters: Hans Christian Andersen

Music and Lyrics: Maury Laws and Jules Bass

Live Action Sequence Stager: Ezra Stone

Animagic Sequence Stager: Don Duga

Additional Dialogue: Romeo Muller

Recording Supervisor: Bernard Cowan

Assistant Director: Kizo Nagashima

Live Action Cinematography: Daniel Cavelli

Animagic Technician: Tadahito Mochinaga

Puppet Makers: Ichiro Komuro, Kyoko Kita (both uncredited)

Animation: Fumiko Magari, Hiroshi Tabata (both uncredited)

Emperor's Clothes: Oleg Cassini

Set Design: Maurice Gordon

Makeup: Phyllis Grens

Mobilux Effects: John Hoppe

Optical Effects: Coastal Films, Inc.

Production Manager: Sal Scoppa, Jr.

Choreography: Tony Mordente

Music Composer and Director: Maury Laws

Title Song Orchestration: Don Costa

Sound Recorders: Alan Mirchin, Eric Tomlinson, Peter Rage, Richard Gramaglia

Soundtrack

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A soundtrack album was issued by Columbia Records featuring all of the songs and the partial score from the film. In 2006, the album was reissued on CD by Percepto Records in a limited edition release that included four bonus tracks.

DVD

The Daydreamer has been released on DVD twice; in 2003 by Anchor Bay, and recently by Lionsgate in 2012 via Amazon.com as a MOD (Manufacture On Demand) disc.

References

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