February 2021 -

When Fairy Tale Grows Up: How Shirley Temple Failed to Make a Career off Fairy Tales

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Fairy tales are tightly entwined with children’s media, so it’s to be expected that the most famous child star of all time, Shirley Temple, would have connections to them. In 1939, Temple was chosen to present Walt Disney with an Oscar for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (feat. seven mini Oscars alongside the big …

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A Valentine’s Day Look at Interspecies Romance in Fairy Tale

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Life has never been easy for lovers in fairy tales, where poison apples and conniving stepmothers get in the way of a perfectly wholesome elopement. But most problems pale in face of one stock love trope: interspecies romance. When one lover is a mermaid, hedgehog, or dragon, they usually need to take on a human …

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