One major departure is the fact that the main character "Ariel" is so ... Jonas Collin. When Andersen began composing "The Little Mermaid" in 1836, he was "in a funk," according to literary ...

Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid has inspired countless adaptations ... musical showcase. The character of a sea witch offering dangerous deals traces back to Andersen’s original ...

Danish author Hans Christian Andersen wrote "The Little Mermaid," one of his many children's fairy tales. Andersen's version of the mermaid's tale was followed closely by Disney animators in the ...

20 female TV characters known for their incredible style Andersen gave us a mermaid who wanted to walk on land and a sea witch, but do you remember the part of The Little Mermaid where it feels ...

As she has with previous interpretations of classics, Zwerger (Alice in Wonderland) works from Bell's faithful translation of Andersen's ... in which the little mermaid, now a "child of the ...

Precious Avery remembers just how rare it was to see Black characters on television growing ... absorbed the trailer for the new “Little Mermaid” film. As turtles swam through coral reefs ...

Hauer-King also spoke to Marshall about making Prince Eric more of a three-dimensional character. Jonah Hauer-King portrays Prince Eric in “The Little Mermaid” live action film. "We wanted to ...

Meet the creatures that really are part of your world. Disney’s 1989 retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale The Little Mermaid brought a host of iconic characters into our lives. With the ...

despite a few key characters portrayed by performers of color. More recently, after the trailer dropped for Disney's live action reboot of The Little Mermaid, racists complained about Halle Bailey ...

Admirers of the beloved 1989 animated classic “The Little Mermaid” are justified to ... as the blandly handsome Prince Eric, he sells the character’s new power ballad in his what-the-boy ...

Disney released the character posters for its live-action "The Little Mermaid," and fans aren't jumping on board. As the saying goes, there's plenty of fish in the sea, but it seems there's only ...