Hans christian andersen film danny kaye biography

Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

Golden Globe Awards

Danny was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy.
The movie was nominated for Best Picture in a Musical/Comedy.

Academy Awards

6 nominations in the following categories: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color; Best Cinematography, Color; Best Costume Design, Color; Best Music, Original Song (“Thumbelina”); Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture; Best Sound, Recording.

Hans Christian Andersen is generally seen as one of Danny's most popular movies.

According to Kurt Singer's The Danny Kaye Story, most of the reviews for this movie were excellent, except for the "more important and intellectual magazines," which "pointed out the fallacies of the film." (pg 193) This film, though it comes across as a biographical film about the storyteller, is only -- as it says at the beginning of the film -- "a fairy-tale about this great spinner of fairy-tales." The Danes and some of the more i