Shelley Duvall died yesterday. I wanted to honor her with a call out to her contribution to keeping fairy tales relevant with her Faerie Tale Theatre series she produced in the 1980s. She later followed it up with two other series, Tall Tales & Legends and Bedtime Stories. She had a love for folk and fairy tales and consequently brought about interesting adaptations made with famous actors of the time working for scale--Robin Williams, Christopher Reeve, Susan Sarandon, Billy Crystal, just to name a few. Thanks, Shelley, for that contribution to retelling the tales for another few generations in fresh and often unexpected ways.
The 26 tales produced included:
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Beauty and the Beast
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
Cinderella
The Dancing Princesses
The Emperor's New Clothes
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Hansel and Gretel
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Little Mermaid
Little Red Riding Hood
The Nightingale
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Pinocchio
The Princess and the Pea
The Princess Who Had Never Laughed
Puss in Boots
Rapunzel
Rip Van Winkle
Rumpelstiltskin
Sleeping Beauty
The Snow Queen
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Tale of the Frog Prince
The Three Little Pigs
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