Sleeping Beauty is an American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault and Little Briar Rose by The Brothers Grimm. The 16th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, it was released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution. This was the last Disney adaptation of a fairy tale for some years because of its initial mixed critical reception and underperformance at the box office; the studio did not return to the genre until 30 years later, after Walt Disney died in 1966, with the release of The Little Mermaid (1989).
It features the voices of Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Bill Shirley, Taylor Holmes, and Bill Thompson.
The film was directed by Les Clark, Eric Larson, and Wolfgang Reitherman, under the supervision of Clyde Geronimi, with additional story work by Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, and Milt Banta. The film's musical score and songs, featuring the work of the Graunke Symphony Orchestra under the direction of George Bruns, are arrangements or adaptations of numbers from the 1890 Sleeping Beauty ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Along with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky's music composition was also popular in the film.
Sleeping Beauty was the first animated film to be photographed in the Super Technirama 70 widescreen process, as well as the second full-length animated feature film to be filmed in anamorphic widescreen, following Disney's own Lady and the Tramp four years earlier. The film was presented in Super Technirama 70 and 6-channel stereophonic sound in first-run engagements.
A live-action re-imagining produced by Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Robert Stromberg, and starring Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora, Brenton Thwaites as Prince Phillip, with Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, and Lesley Manville as the three good fairies, was released in 2014. It met with mixed reviews from critics, but was a commercial success and the fourth highest-grossing film of 2014, and the highest-grossing film starring Angelina Jolie.
Cast
| Image | Character | USA | Mex | Jap | Bra | Mex(2001) | Fra | Ita | Pol | Russ | Isr |
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Princess Aurora | Estrellita Díaz | Laura Ayala | ||||||||
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Prince Philip | Mario Filio | |||||||||
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Flora | Verna Felton | Fanny Schiller | Guadalupe Noel | Shafrira Zakai | ||||||
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Fauna | Magdalena Ruvalcaba | Ada Morales | Maïk Darah | Olga Golovanov | ||||||
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Merryweather | Carlota Solares | Masako Nozawa | ||||||||
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Maleficent | Rosario Muñoz Ledo | Toshiko Sawada | ||||||||
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King Stefan | Dagoberto de Cervantes | Ricardo Lezama | ||||||||
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Queen Leah | Verna Felton | Selma Lopes | Laura Ayala | |||||||
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King Hubert | Bill Thompson | Alberto Gavira | Emilio Guerrero | Roger Carel | Ariel Forman | |||||
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The Owl | Dal McKennon | |||||||||
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Diablo | Dal McKennon | |||||||||
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Maleficent's Goons | Pinto Colvig | Ismael Castro | ||||||||
| Luis Alfonso Padilla | |||||||||||
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Singer | ||||||||||
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Announcer Court | Francisco Colmenero | Luis Alfonso Padilla | ||||||||
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Narrator | Narciso Busquets | Francisco Colmenero |