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"The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue, literally: the little seawoman) is a popular fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince.
Written originally as a ballet, the tale was first published in 1837 and has been adapted to various media including musical theatre and animated film.
The Little Mermaid lives in an underwater kingdom with her father the sea king; her grandmother; and her five elder sisters, each born one year apart. When a mermaid turns 15, she is allowed to swim to the surface to watch the world above, and as the sisters become old enough, one of them visits the surface every year. As each of them returns, the Little Mermaid listens longingly to their various descriptions of the surface and of human beings.
When the Little Mermaid's turn comes, she ventures to the surface, sees a ship with a handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a distance. A great storm hits, and the Little Mermaid saves the prince from a near-drowning. She delivers him unconscious to the shore near a temple. Here she waits until a young girl from the temple finds him. The prince never sees the Little Mermaid.
Actors: Matt Granger (actor), Kate Kroll (producer), Kate Kroll (writer), Kate Kroll (actress), Kate Kroll (director), Chris Hebert (actor), Mikey Granger (actor), Sandy Robson (editor), Tristan Risk (actress), Tristan Risk (writer), Matt Leaf (actor), Tim Hagberg (actor), Jarret Read (actor), Kirsten Hogan (actress), Melody Mangler (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Beth Crosby (actress), Grace Su (actress), Arden Cho (actress), Mariah Bonner (actress), Madia Hill (actress), Rodney Austin (actor), Eugene Lee Yang (director), Eugene Lee Yang (writer), Eugene Lee Yang (editor), Eugene Lee Yang (producer), Mike Montgomery (producer), Olivia Stuck (actress), Faris Matthews (actor), Andrew Oldershaw (actor), Hannah Schneider (actress),
Genres: Musical, Short,Actors: Debbie Wiseman (composer), James Fox (actor), Robert Halmi Jr. (producer), Philip Saville (director), Hans Christian Andersen (writer), Hugh Bonneville (actor), Alison Steadman (actress), Mathieu Carrière (actor), Geraldine James (actress), Steven Berkoff (actor), Simon Callow (actor), David V. Picker (producer), Mathias Braun (miscellaneous crew), Mathias Braun (miscellaneous crew), Jan Henrik Stahlberg (actor),
Plot: A fictionalized account of the young life of Hans Christian Andersen, a young man with a penchant for storytelling but struggles to find his place in the world and gain the affection of the woman he adores. Interspersed throughout are brief interludes of the stories that will make Hans famous (The Nightingale, The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen to name a few), which are intertwined with the events that surround his own life.
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Plot: Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature, a woman, to be the companion of the monster.
Keywords: based-on-novel, blindness, boulder, bread, cemetery, character-name-in-title, creator-creation-relationship, creature-feature, crypt, doctor-frankensteinThere you see her
Sitting there across the way
She don't got a lot to say
But there's something about her
And you don't know why
But you're dying to try
You wanna kiss the girl
Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
Possible she wants you too
There is one way to ask her
It don't take a word
Not a single word
Go on and kiss the girl
Sha la la la la la
My oh my
Look like the boy too shy
Ain't gonna kiss the girl
Sha la la la la la
Ain't that sad?
Ain't it a shame?
Too bad, he gonna miss the girl
Now's your moment
Floating in a blue lagoon
Boy you better do it soon
No time will be better
She don't say a word
And she won't say a word
Until you kiss the girl
Sha la la la la la
Don't be scared
You got the mood prepared
Go on and kiss the girl
Sha la la la la la
Don't stop now
Don't try to hide it how
You want to kiss the girl
Sha la la la la la
Float along
And listen to the song
The song say kiss the girl
Sha la la la la
The music play
Do what the music say
You got to kiss the girl
You've got to kiss the girl
You wanna kiss the girl
You've gotta kiss the girl