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Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a 1959 American fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions, adapted from the Darby O'Gill stories of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh. Directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Lawrence Edward Watkin , the film stars Albert Sharpe as O'Gill alongside Janet Munro , Sean Connery , and Jimmy O'Dea .
English: Frontispiece (scan) of the book, "Darby O'Gill and the Good People" by Herminie Templeton Kavanaugh. Illustration by John R. Neill Illustration by John R. Neill Date
In the film, O'Gill is an aging groundskeeper who engages in a friendly battle of wits with a leprechaun king, and is played by the actor Albert Sharpe. [1] One of the VeggieTales videos, The Wonderful Wizard Of Ha's, has a protagonist whose name is Darby O'Gill (played by Junior Asparagus), but the story itself is mainly a retelling of The ...
Janet Munro (born Janet Neilson Horsburgh; 28 September 1934 – 6 December 1972) was a British actress.She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for her performance in the film Life for Ruth (1962).
Her best known work, Darby O'Gill and the Good People (ISBN 0-9666701-0-8), was first published as a series of stories under the name Herminie Templeton in McClure's magazine in 1901–1902, before being published as a book in the United States in 1903. A second edition, published a year before her death, was under the name Herminie T. Kavanagh.
Also, when Darby O'Gill recalled the rhyme, he changed the words, "So that's good of you. Three wishes I'll grant you, great wishes and small, but if you wish a fourth, then you get none at all." PatrickLMT ( talk ) 10:32, 19 March 2009 (UTC) [ reply ]
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The Disney film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)—based on Herminie Templeton Kavanagh's Darby O'Gill books—which features a leprechaun king, is a work in which Fergus mac Léti was "featured parenthetically". [46] In the film, the captured leprechaun king grants three wishes, like Fergus in the saga.