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."
Laurence Harvey
Karlheinz Böhm
Claire Bloom
Walter Slezak
Barbara Eden
Oskar Homolka
Arnold Stang
Martita Hunt
Betty Garde
Bryan Russell
Ian Wolfe
Tammy Marihugh
Cheerio Meredith
Walter Rilla
Yvette Mimieux
Russ Tamblyn
Jim Backus
Beulah Bondi
Clinton Sundberg
Walter Brooke
Sandra Bettin
Robert Foulk
Terry-Thomas
Buddy Hackett
Otto Kruger
Robert Crawford Jr.
Sydney Smith
Pamela Baird
Billy Barty
Jeanine Cashell
Diana Driscoll
True Ellison
Stanley Fafara
Darby Hinton
Jon Lormer
Gregory Morton
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
'Little Billy' Rhodes
Ruthie Robinson
Angelo Rossitto
Gene Roth
Peter Whitney