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3 unusual facts about Fairytale


FairyTale: A True Story

When she comes home after attending a meeting of the Theosophical Society, where she hears stories of angels and all sorts of ethereal beings, she finds Arthur reviewing the prints in disbelief, but she thinks they are real.

But a newsman soon identifies the beck near Cottingley, tracing the girls through the local school and besieging the family.

Photographing Fairies

FairyTale: A True Story, another 1997 film also inspired by the Cottingley Fairies


45 Minutes of Fairytale Endings

45 Minutes of Fairytale Endings is the debut album released in 2003 by the British metal band Zero Cipher.

Age of Conan: Unchained

The dance moves were made using motion capture on the dancer Hallgrim Hansegård, who is a backing dancer for the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009: "Fairytale" by Alexander Rybak.

Bombay Bicycle Club

The album included 11 acoustically recorded tracks, including "Swansea"; a cover of the Joanna Newsom song that appears on her album The Milk-Eyed Mender and "Fairytale Lullaby"; a cover of the John Martyn song that appears on the album London Conversation.

Château du Rivau

The Rivau fairytale gardens are also a treat for rose lovers and gardeners, as they display a collection of more than 300 roses from famous rose breeders such as André Eve or David Austin.

Constance Amiot

After a first self-produced album Whisperwood (2003), she next recorded an album in New York called Fairytale, (April 2007 on the Tôt ou tard label), with the participation of Jeff Pevar, Ben Wisch, Sean Pelton, François Moutin and the contribution of some lyrics by Jérôme Attal.

Goodge Street tube station

The station is the setting of the song "Sunny Goodge Street" from the 1965 album Fairytale by singer-songwriter Donovan.

Haibach, Lower Franconia

The community lies eastsoutheast of Aschaffenburg on the western edge of the Spessart (range) between Aschaffenburg and the “fairytale castle” of Mespelbrunn.

Hop-o'-My-Thumb

Heinrich Leutemann and Carl Offterdinger illustrated a German fairytale collection, Mein erstes Märchenbuch (My first Fairytale Book), published at the end of the 19th century.

John Allen Nelson

He married actress Justine Eyre in a four day fairytale wedding at Château de Farcheville outside Paris, France in September 2007 and they have a son born in August 2009.

Karin Hardt

After the war was followed by only a few more film appearances such as the Queen in Sleeping Beauty fairytale Genschows Fritz (1955), in addition to Horst Buchholz in A Streetcar Named Love (1957) and alongside Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961).

Lotrando a Zubejda

Written by Zdeněk Svěrák as adaptation of two fairytales - Doctors´ and Highwaymans´ fairytale from Karel Čapek fairytale book Niner Fairytales: And One More Thrown in for Good Measure

Louis Chedid

Chedid is also the composer of Pierre-Dominique Burgaud's "Le Soldat Rose" (The Pink Soldier, 2006), a fairytale musical whose songs have been interpreted by singers including -M-, Vanessa Paradis, Jeanne Cherhal, Francis Cabrel, Alain Souchon and Bénabar.

Monty Python's Personal Best

It then cuts to a fairytale starring the troupe ("The Princess With The Wooden Teeth" from Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus), which then cuts to a poolside interview of a cranky, senile old man (Cleese) by Dayna Devon, a reporter.

Most Beloved Sister

Most Beloved Sister (Allrakäraste Syster) is a 1949 fairytale by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.

North wind

Winter's Child (2009), Cameron Dokey's novel adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, "The Snow Queen", cites the North Wind as the main factor in the Snow Queen's transformation from a mortal to the titular Winter Child.

Pater Moeskroen

This CD is also heard by Dutch producer Peter Koelewijn and he had big plans with the song "Roodkapje", a 1991 interpretation of the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood.

Secret Beyond the Door

Secret Beyond the Door is a 1948 psychological thriller and modern updating of the Bluebeard fairytale, directed by Fritz Lang, produced by Lang's Diana Productions, and released by Universal Pictures.

Spiritual Beggars

The album featured artwork by the legendary artist Hans Arnold, depicting the members of the band in a fairytale world.

Steven Long

Every Woman's Nightmare: The Fairytale Marriage and Brutal Murder of Lori Hacking in 2006, published by St. Martin's Paperbacks, covers the Utah murder of housewife Lori Hacking, whose body was left in a city dump.

Stu Riddle

Their fairytale run would continue under Riddle and they defeated perennial USL Premier Development League powerhouse the Michigan Bucks on 26 July to advance to the national quarter finals where the Thunder Bay Chill would end the Outrage's season.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Rabbi Benjamin Blech described the book as "not just a lie and not just a fairytale, but a profanation".

The Fairy's Mistake

The Fairy's Mistake is based on the French fairytale Diamonds and Toads.

The People of Juvik

Originally released in Norway as I eventyre (literally, "in a fairytale") in 1921, and in America in 1933, the fourth book begins the story of Odin Setran which occupies the remaining three books.

The Princesses and the Frog

"The Princesses and the Frog" reveals Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) pursuing a fairytale romance with Louis Grimaldi (Hugo Becker) as she faces the challenge of winning the approval of Princess Sophie (Joanne Whalley) and possibly earns more than a royal approval, while Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) attempts to ruin Blair by airing out every scandal she can draw out.

The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep

Frederik Magle's album The song is a Fairytale (1994), with songs based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales performed by Thomas Eje and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen amongst others, includes an adaption of The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep.

The Three Clever Kings

"The Three Clever Kings" is a children’s fairytale from the anthology The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde that was written by Mary De Morgan.

Todrick Hall

In October 2013, Hall partnered with Scary Movie franchise co-creator Marlon Wayans to produce 30 short films, fairytale and pop culture parodies for What The Funny.

Warlock Moon

Warlock Moon is a 1973 horror-thriller feature film starring Laurie Walters, Joe Spano and Edna MacAfee which loosely follows the story of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale Hansel and Gretel.


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