legends, and a book on law. Jacob, shaken by his brother's experience, begins to collaborate on the fairy tales with Wilhelm. They are ultimately invited to receive honorary membership at the Berlin Royal Academy, which makes no mention of the tales in their invitation. Jacob prepares to make a speech deliberately insulting the Academy for snubbing Wilhelm. As their train pulls into the station, hordes of children arrive, chanting, "We want a story". Wilhelm begins, "Once upon a time, there were two brothers". The children cheer, and the film ends with a caption card that reads "…and they lived happily ever after". Cast Laurence Harvey - Wilhelm Grimm / The Cobbler ("The Cobbler and the Elves") Karlheinz Böhm - Jacob Grimm (as Karl Boehm) Claire Bloom - Dorothea Grimm Walter Slezak - Stossel Barbara Eden - Greta Heinrich Oskar Homolka - The Duke (as Oscar Homolka) Martita Hunt - Anna Richter (storyteller) Betty Garde - Miss Bettenhausen Bryan Russell - Friedrich Grimm Ian Wolfe - Gruber Walter Rilla - Priest Yvette Mimieux - The Princess ("The Dancing Princess") Russ Tamblyn - The Woodsman ("The Dancing Princess")/ Tom Thumb (in Wilhelm's dream) Jim Backus - The King ("The Dancing Princess") Beulah Bondi - The Gypsy ("The Dancing Princess") Terry-Thomas - Sir Ludwig ("The Singing Bone") Buddy Hackett - Hans ("The Singing Bone") Otto Kruger - The King at Ludwig's Trial ("The Singing Bone") Arnold Stang - Rumplestiltskin (in Wilhelm's dream) Stan Freberg, Thurl Ravenscroft and Dal McKennon - The Elves (Puppetoons voices) ("The Cobbler and the Elves") Peter Whitney - The Giant (uncredited) Tammy Marihugh - Pauline Grimm Cheerio Meredith - Mrs. Von Dittersdorf Willy Reichert - Painter (uncredited) Gregory Morton - Michael Dantino Production Development In the mid-1950s, George Pal left Paramount Studios, which had been his base for a number of years. In March 1956, he announced the formation of his own company, Galaxy Pictures, saying he would make six films, including an adaptation of The Time Machine written by David Duncan; Captain Cook, based on the novel Lost Eden; a film about Atlantis; and The Brothers Grimm, based on a script by David Harmon adapted from a biography of the brothers by Dr Hermann Gerstner. (Pal had bought the screen rights to Gerstner's biography in February 1956 and hired Harmon in March.) Pal signed an agreement with MGM to finance Galaxy's slate, the first film produced being Tom