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Shelley Duvall Faerie Tale Theatre

Does anyone remember this? My local library has the entire box DVD collection. I used to love watching these as a kid, so naturally I had to take it out. Brings back so many memories! For those who don't know, Shelley Duvall used to produce these fairy tale videos in the '80s starring some of the well-known actors of the day. For example, Jennifer Beals and Matthew Broderick played Cinderella and her prince respectively. Looking at them now, the productions look shabby, crude, and corny -- and maybe they were purposely intended to be. But I used to think they were the best movies around.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
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I used to have them all on VHS, but I sold them on line. I got big bucks for them, too.
PEACE.
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OMG. It's so funny that you should mention this! I was just thinking about these the other day and I looked them up. My world became ten times brighter when I realized that you can buy them on DVD. LOVED thses as a kid!
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Wow!! I totally remember watching that show! Do you know know where we could purchase any of the DVDs? Like online or something?
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Now we know the real reason Sueleen wears the bag over her head.
Rest in peace, Iflitifloat.
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Hey, they were not bootlegs if that is what you are implying. Bootlegs are illegal...you could get arrested for selling bootlegs.
PEACE.
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You can get them at Amazon. The individual episodes are only $7 each! Or you can order the whole collection. I'm really tempted to get them.
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wow i remember the Cinderella one... and i also had Little Red Riding Hood (played by Mary Steenburgen haha)! i remember watching the commercial that had after them for all of the episodes and thinking how much i wanted to see the others... but sadly i never got to re: Shelley Duvall Faerie Tale Theatre
::bust a move::
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I loved the Cinderella!! With Jenifer Beals in the title role! And Sleeping Beauty with Vincent Price as the mirror! And Thumbelina with Carrie Fisher and William Katt!!! I tihnk that box set is going on my Christmas list.
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I loved those as well. Robin Williams was great as the Frog Prince. I think Christopher Reeve was in one as well, but I don't remember which one.
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I don't remember Vincent Price being the mirror in Sleeping Beauty. Of course I really don't remember the mirror at all. That was also the one that Christpher Reeve was in as the prince who awakens Sleeping Beauty played beautifully by Bernadette Peters. I saw this again recently and was reminded how strong and virile Reeve was before his accident. I had been so used to seeing him in later years that I had almost forgotten the more Superman appearance. The funniest (and raciest) part about Sleeping Beauty was Bernadette's "other" role as Princess Debbie the gold-digging Arabian Princess. My god, it was hysterical but I had to keep asking myself "This is for children????". Completely looking over the fact that she had few clothes on and was obviously trying to get the prince into bed but when she made him pull the pearls off her bodice with his teeth, well I don't think my parents would have been happy had I been watching that when I was a kid. LOL
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The Dancing Princesses is my favorite. It's so sweet.
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
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I got my fairytales mixed up. Vincent Price was the mirror in Snow White. Elizabeth McGovern was Snow White in that one. I don't remember Sleeping Beauty. They must not have had that one at our video store when I was little. These are all just classics!
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I adored The Princess and the Pea with Liza Minnelli and Tom Conti. My sister and I still quote from it, and I still laugh when I think of his eyebrows.
"I have decided that the horizon is too far away. I decree that all the king's horses and all the king's men will take some very large ropes and pull the horizon closer to the castle. Let it be written, and let it be done."
Or something like that. Ah, childhood.
"Wilkins, after all these years, are you trying to be funny?"
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Well I think you would remember Sleeping Beauty as its the only time I've seen the story depicted as soft core porn. re: Shelley Duvall Faerie Tale Theatre
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One of my favorites was the Three Little Pigs with Billy Crystal as one of the piglets, and Jeff Goldblum as the Wolf.
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LOVE IT!
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
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i remember the Snow White one too!!! that was a good one!!




i should have remembered that one first... i watched that one the most!
::bust a move::
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KatyGrace, LOVE the avatar! I had to click on your profile so I could see it larger.
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Gah, the Rumplestiltskin one used to scare me. I LOVE Faerie Tale Theatre. I used to make my mother rent them over and over when we had our first VCR and Curtis Mathis was the one place in town to rent movies. It always cracked me up that Shelley Duvall cast herself as the beautiful queen in this one. :/
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
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Oh my gosh! I LOVE these movies!
"The Dancing Princesses" is one of my favorites, but I also love "Annie Oakley" and "The Princess and the Pea". I think I've seen a lot of the other ones, but I can't remember.
"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."

Wishes come true, not free.
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Speaking of Shelley Duvall, does anyone remember "Nightmare Classics"? The "Carmilla" one scared the heck out of me as a kid.

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