The Daydreamer
Cover of the 2003 DVD release.
Directed by	Jules Bass
Produced by	Joseph E. Levine Arthur Rankin, Jr. Larry Roemer
Written by	Romeo Muller Arthur Rankin, Jr. Hans Christian Andersen (stories)
Starring	Paul O'Keefe Jack Gilford Ray Bolger Margaret Hamilton Burl Ives Hayley Mills
Music by	Maury Laws
Cinematography	Daniel Cavelli Tadahito Mochinaga
Distributed by	Embassy Pictures Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release date(s)	June 1966
Running time	101 min.
Country	US
Language	English

The Daydreamer is a 1966 Rankin/Bass stop-motion puppet animation and live-action musical fantasy film. 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.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Soundtrack 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Plot

Teen-aged 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. 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, and The Garden of Paradise.

Songs: Does Anyone Have Some Luck To Sell? and Who Can Tell A Wise Man from a Fool?

[edit] 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 Zenith
• Ed Wynn as The Emperor
• Ray Bolger as The Pieman

[edit] Soundtrack

A soundtrack album was issued by Columbia Records^[1] 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.^[2]

[edit] See also

• List of stop-motion films

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The Daydreamer at the Internet Movie Database
• The Daydreamer at Allmovie
• The Daydreamer at Rotten Tomatoes