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Sleeping Beauty (1959) 7.3
A snubbed malevolent fairy casts a curse on a princess that only a prince can break, with the help of three good fairies. Director:Clyde Geronimi |
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Mary Costa | ... |
Princess Aurora
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Bill Shirley | ... |
Prince Phillip
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Maleficent
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Flora /
Leah
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Barbara Luddy | ... |
Merryweather
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Barbara Jo Allen | ... |
Fauna
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Taylor Holmes | ... |
Stefan
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Bill Thompson | ... |
Hubert
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Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. Princess Aurora is cursed by the evil witch Maleficent - who declares that before Aurora reaches her 16th birthday she will die by pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning-wheel. To try to prevent this, the king places her into hiding, in the care of three good-natured - but not too bright - fairies. Written by Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
6 February 1959 (Brazil) See more »Also Known As:
La bella durmiente See more »Box Office
Budget:
$6,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$51,600,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Narrator: In a faraway land, long ago, there lived a King and his fair Queen. Many years they had longed for a child, and finally their wish was granted. A daughter was born, and they called her Aurora. Yes, they named her after the dawn, for she filled their lives with sunshine. Then a great holiday was proclaimed throughout the land, so that all of high or low estate could pay homage to the infant Princess. And our story begins on that most joyful day...
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(1958) (uncredited)
Music by George Bruns
Lyrics by Tom Adair
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Trivia
During the transition screen to Maleficent's castle, where Prince Philip has been taken, with the fog/clouds swirling about, you can see that the wisps make the faces of skulls. See more »Goofs
When the fairies change into peasant clothes, Merryweather does not speak the first half of her line, "And we can use our magic to help us." See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: In a faraway land, long ago, there lived a King and his fair Queen. Many years they had longed for a child, and finally their wish was granted. A daughter was born, and they called her Aurora. Yes, they named her after the dawn, for she filled their lives with sunshine. Then a great holiday was proclaimed throughout the land, so that all of high or low estate could pay homage to the infant Princess. And our story begins on that most joyful day...
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Crazy Credits
The opening credits say Technirama, but not Super Technirama 70, which is the process it was filmed in. See more »Connections
Edited into Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: Music for Everybody (1966) See more »Soundtracks
"Sing a Smiling Song"(1958) (uncredited)
Music by George Bruns
Lyrics by Tom Adair
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...which is that it may have been designed more for an adult audience than a children's. At any rate it was way ahead of its time in 1959. "Sleeping Beauty" was one of the movies I watched as a child, and its grandness overwhelmed me even at the age of ten. I couldn't be happier to see it finally in the DVD format. But watch closely; you'll notice many subtle, sophisticated things which other viewers have touched on in earlier reviews. The animation is almost surreal-- so incredibly lifelike that it abandons its cute, 'Disneyesque' pretensions from previous fairy tales. There are no talking mice, dogs or cats anywhere to be seen. Here the animals are silent, as animals are supposed to be. (I love the sequence with the forest animals as they are awakened by the singing of the barefoot princess and join up with her, like multiple chaperons, in harmonious whistles.) Even the fairy godmothers- who may initially appear as sugary stereotypes- spend so much time bickering (well, two of them do anyway) that you get to identify them as thoroughly fleshed out personalities. The adaptation of the original Perrault fairy tale is also impressive. An ingenious move was to have the prince and princess meet in the forest *first* and fall in love- unaware that they are already engaged to be married. Someone mentioned the chilling sequence which shows the princess, cloaked in an eerie green pallor, actually being lured to the fateful spinning wheel. So dark, so frightening- when was the last time you saw something like this in a Disney fairy tale? And then immediately afterwords is a cleansing sequence of unmatched beauty showing the fairies sailing through the sky like fireflies, magically dusting the rest of the castle to sleep. It is, of course, only matched by the film's finale which shows storm clouds, lightning, a forest of thorns, and a flame-spewing dragon-- all seamlessly bringing the story to a 75-minute conclusion. It stands, in my opinion, as Disney's masterpiece.