Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)


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Cast & Crew.

Mary Costa
Princess Aurora (voice)

Bill Shirley
Prince Phillip (voice)

Eleanor Audley
Maleficent (voice)

Verna Felton
Flora / Queen Leah (voice)

Barbara Luddy
Merryweather (voice)

Barbara Jo Allen
Fauna (voice)

Taylor Holmes
King Stefan (voice)

Bill Thompson
King Hubert (voice)

Marvin Miller
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Candy Candido
Maleficent’s Goon (voice) (uncredited)

Pinto Colvig
Maleficent’s Goon (voice) (uncredited)

Bob Amsberry
Maleficent’s Goon (voice) (uncredited)

Charles Perrault
Novel / Story

Billy Bletcher
Maleficent's Goon

Les Clark
Director

Roy M. Brewer Jr.
Editor

Clyde Geronimi
Director

Erdman Penner
Adaptation / Screenplay

Wolfgang Reitherman
Director

Ken Peterson
Production Supervisor

Donald Halliday
Editor

Robert O. Cook
Sound Supervisor

Frank Thomas
Animation

Eric Larson
Animation
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Details.
Release DateFebruary 17, 1959
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 15m
Content RatingG
Budget$6,000,000
Box Office$51,600,000
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Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution. Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, the film follows Princess Aurora, who was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday. She is saved by three good fairies, who alter Aurora's curse so that she falls into a deep sleep and will be awakened by true love's kiss. The production was supervised by Clyde Geronimi, and was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Eric Larson, and Les Clark. It features the voices of Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Taylor Holmes, and Bill Thompson.
Sleeping Beauty began development in 1950. The film took nearly a decade and $6 million (equivalent to $64,719,178 in 2024) to produce, and was Disney's most expensive animated feature at the time. Its tapestry-like art style was devised by Eyvind Earle, who was inspired by pre-Renaissance European art; its score and songs, composed by George Bruns, were based on Pyotr Tchaikovsky's 1889 ballet. Sleeping Beauty was the first animated film to use the Super Technirama 70 widescreen process and was the second full-length animated feature filmed in anamorphic widescreen, following Lady and the Tramp (1955).
It was released in theaters on January 29, 1959, to mixed reviews from critics who praised its art direction and musical score, but criticized its plot and characters. The film was a box-office bomb in its initial release, grossing $5.3 million (equivalent to $57,168,607 in 2024), and losing $900,000 (equivalent to $9,707,877 in 2024) for the distributor. Many employees from the animation studio were laid off. Sleeping Beauty's re-releases have been successful, and it has become one of Disney's most artistically acclaimed features. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture at the 32nd Academy Awards.
Maleficent, a live-action reimagining of the film from Maleficent's perspective, was released in 2014, followed by a sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, in 2019. The latter year, Sleeping Beauty was selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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