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"Rumpelstiltskin" (/ ˌ r ʌ m p əl ˈ s t ɪ l t s k ɪ n / RUMP-əl-STILT-skin; [1] German: Rumpelstilzchen [ˌʁʊmpl̩ˈʃtiːltsçn̩] ⓘ) is a German fairy tale [2] collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. [2] The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a woman's ...
Rumpelstiltskin then murders a passing biker and steals his motorcycle which he soon trades out for a tanker truck and continues pursuit as it leads into the mountainous outskirts of Bakersfield. After her car dies the following morning, Shelly flags down fellow motorist and chauvinistic "professional asshole" TV show host, Max Bergman whom, in ...
"The Story of the Three Calendars, Sons of Kings, and of Five Ladies of Bagdad" "The Story of the First Calendar, Son of a King" "The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied" "The Story of the Second Calendar, Son of a King" "The Story of the Third Calendar, Son of a King" "The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor" "First Voyage ...
Rumpelstiltskin was part of the Cannon Movie Tales series, a US$50 million project initiated by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus to adapt sixteen fairy tales into live action. [3] [4] The film featured Billy Barty in his only lead role (as the title character), [5] and also starred Amy Irving (as Katie, the miller's daughter) [3] and Clive Revill as the villainous King Mezzer.
Articles relating to Rumpelstiltskin (1812), a German fairy tale. It was collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales . The story is about a little imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a girl's firstborn child.
Multiple sources have identified the story of Epimenides as the earliest known variant of the "Rip Van Winkle" fairy tale. [17] [18] [20] [12] [21] The story of "Rip Van Winkle" itself is widely thought to have been based on Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal's German folktale "Peter Klaus", [5] [12] which is a shorter story set in a German ...
Rumpelstiltskin (German: Rumpelstilzchen) is a 1955 fantasy film directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf. It stars Werner Krüger as the title character. The film was released in the United States by K. Gordon Murray in 1965 and re-released by Paramount Pictures in 1974.
Shirley Temple's Storybook is a 1958–61 American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple.The series features adaptations of fairy tales like Mother Goose and other family-oriented stories performed by well-known actors, although one episode, an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables, was meant for older youngsters.