Coming to Blu-Ray - The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)

I was so excited to see this announcement on the Blu Ray new releases coming up:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Wonderful-World-of-the-Brothers-Grimm-Blu-ray/134981

It's such a long and epic film with sequences of Grimm tales intermixed with drama about how the Brothers started writing and how they got inspired to write. 

I love this movie! It features Lawrence Harvey as one of the brothers, a fantastic George Pal puppetoons sequence about the Elves making shoes for the shoemaker, Great costumes and scenery, Arnold Stang as Rumpelstiltskin, Russ Tamblyn as Tom Thumb, Buddy Hacket as the Dragon Slayer, Barbara Eden, Claire Bloom, and Terry-Thomas. And an awesome musical score.

I saw this in Los Angeles/Hollywood on the big screen in 2012 at the Cinerama Dome Theater in honor of its 50th Anniversary and it was really cool to see the film projected from 3 cameras and see it the way it was meant to be seen! Russ Tamblyn was in the audience, I remember. 

It's a rare experience because there are hardly any Cinerama theaters/projectors anymore.

It's one of those films that might look terrible on a small screen/square TV in the olden days; that's probably why it hasn't been on TV much over the years, and may be one of the "forgotten films", which is a shame because it's a pretty cool movie. 

The next best thing is to watch this on a big-screen TV on DVD or Blu-Ray - even better. I hope the picture quality is good. 

This was shown on Turner Classic Movies a few times and I remember watching it on TV but honestly it is one of those movies that was made-for-cinerama and the 3-camera system. It's still fun to watch. I hope more people see it!

Ben Mankiewicz introduces the movie on TCM a few years ago:

[TV Memories] Lena and friends: musical performances on TV

Tonight I enjoyed these wonderful clips from Lena's television appearances over the years. Most of these I have never seen before. Thanks to all who posted these wonderful clips.

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Lena and Tony Bennett ("The Look of Love"/"My Funny Valentine") With Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Lawrence Harvey, Janis Paige (medley, 1962) With Dean Martin (1960s) With Dean Martin and Bing Crosby (1960s) With Perry Como (medley, 1960s) With Perry Como and Dean Martin (1964) And with Kermit: "It's Not Easy Bein' Green" (1970s)