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Sleeping Beauty (75 min)
Synopsis: The princess Aurora is born amid much joy at the palace. As the three good fairies, Fauna, Flora and Merryweather bestow their gifts, the evil Maleficent, jealous at not being invited, places a curse on the child. Before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, Aurora will prick her finger on a spinning wheel, and die. Merryweather softens the spell by providing that Aurora will fall into a deep sleep, from which she will awaken upon true love’s kiss. Determined to outwit the curse, the king and queen send Aurora to live as a peasant with the three fairies, in human form. Walking through the woods on her sixteenth birthday, she meets and falls in love with Prince Phillip, whom she declares she has met before, “Once Upon a Dream.” Later that day, Maleficent lures Aurora to a spinning wheel, where she pricks her finger and falls into a deep sleep. With the help of the three good fairies, Phillip must battle Maleficent to save Aurora.
Cast: Mary Costa (Princess Aurora); Bill Shirley (Prince Phillip); Eleanor Audley (Maleficent); Verna Felton (Flora); Barbara Luddy (Merryweather); Barbara Jo Allen (Fauna); Taylor Holmes (King Stefan); Bill Thompson (King Hubert);
Songs: “Hail to the Princess Aurora,” “I Wonder,” “Once Upon a Dream,” “Skumps,” “Sleeping Beauty,”
Supervising director: Clyde Geronimi.
Released January 29, 1959.
US Theatrical Reissues: June 10, 1970; September 28, 1979; March 7, 1986; and September 10, 1995
US Home Media Releases: October 14, 1986 (VHS/LD); September 16, 1997 (VHS/LD); September 9, 2003 (DVD/VHS); October 7, 2008 (DVD/BR); October 7, 2014 (BR/DVD); September 24, 2019 (BR); January 14, 2020 (DVD);
Trivia:
• Frames: 108,000
• The first Disney film produced in 70mm format (Technirama 70.)
• The style of the film was based on the work of artist Eyvind Earle.
• George Bruns’s orchestral score, which was nominated for an Academy Award, expertly blended famous themes from Tchaikovsky’s ballet.
• Based upon the Charles Perrault version of “Sleeping Beauty”
• With a budget that exceeded $6 million in 1959, this was Walt Disney’s most lavish and expensive animated feature to date.
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