1h 29min | Musical, Family, Fantasy | TV Movie 26 November 1957 | Color, fs
Director: Bretaigne Windust
Stars: Van Johnson, Claude Rains, Lori Nelson, Jim Backus, Kay Starr.
Ward Ellis ... choreographer
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050842/
Watched on AmazonPrime, poor visuals; also on a megapack.
This has theatrical posters because they did release it in '66 per the Wikipedia article. Recorded as a film before the 1st broadcast.
I wonder who doubled VJ (b. '16) in the opening dance sequence. It's a lot more athletic than I've seen him do before, even when he was younger (1st film in '40).
CR (b. '89) looks every minute of his age, maybe more.
12 songs in the Soundtracks, all with music from various Edvard Grieg's works. Much (all?) of the dialog is also spoken in verse.
Perhaps if you watched this as a child during annual viewings you'd become attached to it.
As is, with the poor visual quality, it doesn't endear itself to me. Like the music, but not compellingly.
Hal Stanley Prod., distr. NBC, dir. Windust; 6
