The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye

rdf:langString The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye

rdf:langString Akikazu Kono

rdf:langString Jules Bass

rdf:langString Denmark

rdf:langString Japan

rdf:langString United States

rdf:langString Irwin Goldress

rdf:langString Animated TV special

rdf:langString English

rdf:langString Arthur Rankin, Jr.

rdf:langString Jules Bass

rdf:langString Associate Producer:

rdf:langString Herbert Bonis

rdf:langString Gary Shapiro

rdf:langString The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes is an animated television special broadcast on ABC on Monday night, February 21, 1972. The special was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, a former division of Tomorrow Entertainment, using their "Animagic" stop-motion puppetry technique in Japan, along with some live-action footage shot in Denmark. The special, a musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fable The Emperor's New Clothes, starred Danny Kaye as the voice of the narrator and main character, Marmaduke. Kaye was strongly associated with the author, having previously played the title role in the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen. The cast also included Cyril Ritchard, Imogene Coca, Allen Swift and Bob McFadden. Kaye sang five original songs written by Maury Laws and Jules Bass: "Come Along with Me", "Clothes Make the Man" with Swift, "The Tailor's Song", "Creation", and "All You Need Is Money to Be Rich" with Coca, while Ritchard sang "I See What I Want to See". Presented under the banner of The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye, the special was a pilot for a series of planned specials. Cartoonist Jack Davis, who designed characters for the special, also had concept drawings for further specials, which can be glimpsed in the making-of documentary on the 30th anniversary DVD release by Sony Wonder and Classic Media in 2002. No further specials were ever produced.