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Esmeralda, a young gypsy girl, is seen dancing in front of an audience of people. Quasimodo, the deaf hunchback and bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, is crowned the King of Fools until Frollo catches up to him and takes him back to the church. Esmeralda is caught by a guard and seeks safety in Notre Dame.
Esmeralda (French: [ɛs.me.ʁɑl.da]), born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris).She is a French Roma girl (near the end of the book, it is revealed that her biological mother was a French woman).
Demi Moore as Esmeralda (singing voice by Heidi Mollenhauer), a young Romani woman (referred to as a "Gypsy" by many), who dwells within the streets of Paris. Tony Jay as Judge Claude Frollo , a powerful Parisian justice minister , who, after a series of sensitive circumstances, becomes the begrudged caretaker of the deformed Quasimodo.
Esmeralda has arranged this meeting expecting to marry her rescuer—unaware that Phoebus is already engaged, but intends to tell Esmeralda whatever she wants to hear to get a one-night stand. Just before Esmeralda is able to give her virginity to a shallow, vacuous man who does not love or respect her, Frollo, in a jealous rage, stabs Phoebus ...
Quasimodo (Anthony Quinn), the hunchback of Notre Dame Cathedral, falls in love with the gypsy Esmeralda (Gina Lollobrigida). When Esmeralda is condemned as a witch by Claude Frollo , the priest who longs for her, Quasimodo takes her into the cathedral to save her. But in a misguided rescue attempt, the people come to free her and Quasimodo ...
As a girl, she had a screen test in Hollywood, but her mother was advised to take her home because she had no potential to be an actress. [3] She was born Ruth Mae Miller but changed her name to avoid confusion with another actress, Ruth Miller, who was already active in film. [4] She attended Mary Institute in St. Louis. [2]
The song was intended to contrast with the song "Heaven's Light", which was sung by Quasimodo just moments earlier, expressing his desire for love and hope that Esmeralda may love him, while "Hellfire" focuses on Frollo's internal conflict between his feelings of lust for her and his hatred of the Romani people.
One of The Hunchback of Notre Dame's most poignant moments, [10] "God Help the Outcasts" is Esmeralda's only song. [11] Identified as the film's "prettiest" musical number, [12] the song occurs immediately after Esmeralda, relentlessly pursued by Judge Frollo, claims sanctuary in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral upon "see[ing] how ...