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15 unusual facts about Jack And The Beanstalk


Beanstalk Bunny

The cartoon's story is derived from the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk and stars Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck as Jack, and Elmer Fudd as the giant.

Castle Waiting

The series brings together characters from several classic fairy tales, such as Simple Simon and Iron Henry, as well as referencing several others such as Jack and the Beanstalk and Sleeping Beauty.

Helen Shapiro

She appeared in the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk at the Oldham Coliseum Theatre in 1983 and during her stay in the area made a number of guest appearances at Bury Hebrew Congregation, Bury.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Michael Davis directed the 1994 adaptation entitled Beanstalk, starring J. D. Daniels as Jack and Stuart Pankin as the Giant.

Avalon Family Entertainment's film entitled Jack and the Beanstalk (released on home video April 20, 2010) is a live-action adaptation starring Christopher Lloyd, Chevy Chase, James Earl Jones, Gilbert Gottfried, Katey Sagal, Wallace Shawn and Chloë Grace Moretz.

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Jack is left stranded in the giant world after the beanstalk dissolves, apparently cut down by someone back on Earth, and discovers that the giant Thunderdell (Bill Barretta) was an extremely benevolent person: kind, honest, and a loving friend and father who had also adopted Ondine and raised her as his own daughter.

Bill Barretta - Thunderdell: The original guardian of the Harp of Harmony and the Goose of Prosperity.

Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk

The film opens as if it's Jack and the Beanstalk, and finds Warner's famous "jackrabbit" (Bugs), already in the giant's lofty realm, chopping down gigantic carrots.

Jake Hendriks

2008 - Jack and the Beanstalk - "Hazlitt Theatre" Maidstone - 29 November 2008 - 4 January 2009.

Lauren Drummond

Drummond starred as Princess Mika in a modern version of the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk at The Sands Centre in Carlisle over Christmas 2008.

Mike Fischetti

From December 2009 to January 2010 he appeared in the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk at the Malvern Theatre, alongside Colin Baker and Sarah Thomas.

Once Upon a Girl

Her evidence is presented as a collection of pornographic animated shorts, those of Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood.

Phil Gallagher

In 2007, he appeared as Silly Billy (Jack's brother) in Jack and the Beanstalk, again at the Theatre Royal in Winchester.

Stephen Uppal

More recently, Uppal has played the role of Jack in the pantomime "Jack and the Beanstalk" at the Norwich Theatre Royal.

Una McLean

She starred in Jack and the Beanstalk alongside Jimmy Logan in his last pantomime appearance at King's Theatre, Glasgow as Wondergran, a show that also featured Alyson McInnes, John Ramage, and Euan McIver.


Belvoir Castle

In the 2001 Jim Henson production of Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, the castle is where the giant bones have been discovered.

Dorothy Ford

She continued her acting career, including roles in the Andy Hardy movie Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) and in Abbott and Costello's Jack and the Beanstalk (1952), until 1966, when she put in her final (and uncredited) performance in British film The Wrong Box.

Edwin S. Porter

In his Jack and the Beanstalk (1902) and Life of an American Fireman (1903) he followed earlier films by France's Georges Méliès and members of England's Brighton School, such as James Williamson.

The Hollowing

In addition to introducing Native American culture into Ryhope wood, mythagos about Jack (as in Jack and the Beanstalk), the Tower of Babel and Jason and the Argonauts appear, the last two of which involve variations on myths that are uncharacteristically non-English in origin.

Tom Shale

Making his first professional appearance in 1885, he was a regular in pantomime, playing 'Buttons' in Cinderella and King Stoneybrokish in Jack and the Beanstalk with George Robey and Barry Lupino.