In medieval Europe, Cinderella tended to triumph because she was clever and lucky. In the 19th century, the brothers Grimm, who recorded the version of the story that Americans are most likely to ...

The Grimm Brothers' prince insists on accompanying his newfound love home, to see who the hell she is. (Twice, mind you, since there are actually three balls in the original story.) Aschenputtel ...

The Cinderella figure of that story, Beauty, is drowned in a well by her ugly stepsister, then transformed into a sparrow, then back again into a girl. The Grimm’s Cinderella has perhaps the ...

Circa 1830: Cinderella, having tried on the glass slipper, produces its fellow. Etching by George Cruikshank as an illustration for Grimm's "Aschenputtel." (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...

A Jeff Koons art book, in an edition of 1,500, sold new for $1,000 in 2008, and has since fetched $4,500 at auction. Its other books, like The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm ($39.99), might not ...

Cinderella should fill the heart with child-like wonder, not leave it sinking at the childish humour. Until June 16, Royal Albert Hall (020 7589 8212, royalalberthall.com) ...

Many of the fairytales that we’re familiar with, such as Snow White, Cinderella, and Hansel and Gretel, originated in Germany and were collected by the Brothers Grimm. But Jacob and Wilhelm ...

Before Walt Disney's 1950 "Cinderella" movie, there were the Grimm Brothers, who wrote an earlier Cinderella tale in 1857. And before the Grimm Brothers, there was Charles Perroult's "Cinderella ...

Scott Green / NBC As the Oregon Art Beat crew learned, it takes a village of local talent to make Grimm. See how it all happens in "The Art of Grimm," at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 30 on OPB TV.