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Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)

October 20, 2023

Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, it is the 16th Disney animated feature film. The production was supervised by Clyde Geronimi, and was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Eric Larson, and Les Clark. With the voices of Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Taylor Holmes, and Bill Thompson, the film follows Princess Aurora, who was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from a prick from the spindle of a spinning wheel. She is saved by three good fairies, who alter the curse so that the princess falls into a deep sleep and is awakened by true love's kiss.

Sleeping Beauty
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Story by
Based onSleeping Beauty
by Charles Perrault
Produced byWalt Disney
Starring
Edited by
  • Roy M. Brewer Jr.
  • Donald Halliday
Music byGeorge Bruns
Production
company
Distributed byBuena Vista Distribution
Release date
  • January 29, 1959 (1959-01-29)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6 million[1]
Box office$51.6 million (United States and Canada)[2]

Sleeping Beauty began development in 1950. The film took nearly a decade and $6 million 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, was 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).[3]

It was released in theaters on January 29, 1959, to mixed reviews from critics who praised its art direction and musical score and criticized its plot and characters. The film was a box-office bomb in its initial release, grossing $5.3 million. Sleeping Beauty's re-releases have been successful, however,[4] 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.

A live-action reimagining of the film from Maleficent's perspective was released in 2014, followed by a sequel in 2019. That year, Sleeping Beauty was selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Plot Edit

King Stefan and Queen Leah,[a] rulers of a European kingdom, welcome the birth of their daughter Aurora after many years of childlessness. They proclaim a holiday for their subjects to pay homage to the princess, and she is betrothed to Prince Phillip (the son of Stefan's friend, King Hubert) at her christening to unite their kingdoms. Among the guests are three good fairies, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. Flora and Fauna bless Aurora with beauty and song, but Merryweather's gift is interrupted by the arrival of the evil fairy Maleficent. As revenge for not being invited, she curses the princess: before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die.

Although her magic is not as powerful as Maleficent's, Merryweather uses her blessing to weaken the curse; Aurora will fall into a deep sleep instead of dying, and will only awaken with true love's kiss. King Stefan orders all the kingdom's spinning wheels burned as a precaution, and the fairies come up with the idea of hiding Aurora in a forest cottage so she lives in safety until her sixteenth birthday. At their urging, Stefan and Leah reluctantly let them take their daughter away.

Years later, Aurora (renamed Briar Rose) has become a beautiful young woman. On her sixteenth birthday, the fairies send her to gather berries so they can prepare a surprise party. In the forest, Aurora sees her animal friends and begins to sing; this attracts the attention of Phillip, now a handsome young man. They meet, and immediately fall in love; Aurora invites Phillip to the cottage that evening. Flora and Merryweather argue about the color of Aurora's birthday gown; this attracts the attention of Maleficent's raven, Diablo,[b] who learns the princess' whereabouts. Back at home, Aurora tells her guardians that she has fallen in love; they tell her that she is a princess, already betrothed to a prince, and must never see the man she met again. Meanwhile, Phillip tells his father about the peasant girl he met and wants to marry, despite his prearranged marriage. King Hubert unsuccessfully tries to dissuade him.

Shortly before sunset, the fairies bring Aurora to the castle for her birthday celebration. Maleficent appears and lures her away from them to a tower room, where Aurora pricks her finger on a spinning-wheel spindle. The fairies place the sleeping Aurora in the highest tower and cast a spell on the people in the castle, causing them to sleep until their princess awakens. Flora overhears a sleepy conversation between the kings, and realizes that Phillip is the man with whom Aurora has fallen in love. The fairies rush to the cottage, only to learn that Phillip has been abducted by Maleficent and her goons.

At her domain, the Forbidden Mountain, Maleficent reveals Aurora's identity to Phillip. She plans to lock him away for a century until he is on the verge of death before releasing him to meet Aurora, who will not have aged a single day. The fairies rescue Phillip and arm him with the magical Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue. Maleficent surrounds Stefan's castle with a forest of thorns to stop Phillip, but he breaks through it. She then appears in front of him and transforms into a giant, fire-breathing dragon. They fight, and Phillip kills Maleficent by thrusting his sword into her heart.

Phillip awakens Aurora with a kiss, breaking the spell and awakening the kingdom. They descend to the ballroom, where Aurora reunites with her parents and happily waltzes with Phillip while Flora and Merryweather continue arguing about the color of her dress.

Voice cast Edit

Main article: List of Disney's Sleeping Beauty characters
 
Characters from the film: (left to right) forest animals, the Goons, Maleficent, Diablo, Prince Phillip, Princess Aurora, Flora, Queen Leah, Fauna, Merryweather, King Stefan, King Hubert, Samson, and the Lackey.
  • Mary Costa as Princess Aurora,[6] also known as Briar Rose and Sleeping Beauty, a dreamy and romantic daughter of King Stefan and Queen Leah who is cursed by Maleficent.[7]
  • Bill Shirley as Prince Phillip,[8] King Hubert's laid-back and courageous son and Aurora's "true love" to whom she was betrothed. He is occasionally accompanied by his horse, Samson.[9]
  • Eleanor Audley as Maleficent,[10] a powerful dark fairy and self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" who casts a deadly curse on Aurora.[11] She is frequently accompanied by her raven, Diablo.[5]
  • Verna Felton as Flora,[12] Aurora's bossy and headstrong fairy godmother and guardian, who is the leader of the Three Good Fairies. Her signature color is red.[13]
  • Barbara Luddy as Merryweather,[14] Aurora's feisty and short-tempered fairy godmother and guardian, who challenges Flora's leadership. Her signature color is blue.[15]
  • Barbara Jo Allen as Fauna,[16] Aurora's gentle and flighty fairy godmother and guardian, who is a peacemaker between Flora and Merryweather. Her signature color is green.[17]
  • Taylor Holmes as King Stefan,[18] Aurora's regal, soft-spoken father and Queen Leah's husband.[19]
  • Bill Thompson as King Hubert,[18] Phillip's jolly, boisterous father and Stefan's lifelong friend.[20]

Candy Candido, Pinto Colvig, and Bob Amsberry voiced the Goons, Maleficent's bumbling-but-menacing henchmen.[16][21] Dallas McKennon voiced the Owl, one of Aurora's animal friends.[21] Marvin Miller was the film's narrator.[22]

Production Edit

Early development Edit

Walt Disney first considered making an animated version of Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty in 1938.[23] Preliminary artwork was submitted by Joe Grant, but the project did not move forward.[24] In January 1950, after a preview audience's positive response to Cinderella,[24] Disney registered Sleeping Beauty as a planned production title with the Motion Picture Association of America;[25] in November of that year, he told the Los Angeles Times that development of the film had begun.[26] Disney envisioned Sleeping Beauty as his masterpiece and the ultimate in animated filmmaking,[27] and was willing to pool all resources needed to achieve that.[23] Recognizing the difficulty of producing another fairy-tale feature which would not be too reminiscent of his previous films, notably Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Cinderella (1950),[22] he repeatedly told his staff during production that it had to be different.[28]

Key early story work was done by Ted Sears, Winston Hibler, and Bill Peet, who were joined by other story artists as production continued.[29] They decided to discard the second half of the Perrault's story, which describes a sleeping beauty married to a strange prince, and focus on its first half;[30] this ensured the development of a more convincing relationship between the characters.[29] The earliest known story outline was written by April 1951, featuring a climactic wake-up kiss and the encounter between prince and princess before she succumbs to the curse. It also included the names of the fairies, who had been reduced from eight to four, and their corresponding magical abilities: Tranquility, the Fairy of Dreams; Fernadell, the Fairy of the Forest; Merryweather, the Fairy of the Elements; and Maleficent, the Fairy of Darkness.[31] The story artists significantly expanded the fairies' roles, turning the good fairies into comical companions and guardians of the princess[32] and the evil fairy into a more powerful villain.[33]

In this version of the story, Maleficent would conjure an indestructible spinning wheel which the king and queen would unsuccessfully try to get rid of; they would be forced to hide their daughter in the castle walls and never let her out.[31] The princess was envisioned as a "poor little rich girl", burdened by her royal pedigree and dreaming of exploring the world outside the castle – similar to Jasmine in Aladdin (1992).[24] Shortly before her sixteenth birthday, the princess was to switch clothes with her maidservant and secretly escape to a nearby forest[31] or country fair[34] where she would meet and fall in love with the prince. He would travel to a faraway land and return a few years later to fight Maleficent with the help of the good fairies, find the sleeping princess and wake her up with the kiss.[31] Story ideas of that period also included the good fairies attempting to surround the castle with a protective circle[34] and Maleficent's comically-incompetent vulture sidekick,[35] although the earlier outline depicted him as a huge, sinister falcon.[31]

Rewriting Edit

We had a lot of problems. We were fighting to break away from what we had done in the past. Sleeping Beauty was tough, because it had many of the elements we had already used in Snow White and Cinderella. You've got to give the creators new things to work with so they'll be able to keep their enthusiasm up. You're in trouble if they start saying, "Haven't we done this before?" We had to find out what we had and whether it would please the public. I'm never sure myself what they're going to buy.

—Walt Disney on the difficulties of adapting Sleeping Beauty as an animated feature[36]

By June 1952, the full storyboard of Sleeping Beauty was completed; Disney rejected it, however, saying that its approach was too similar to his studio's earlier films.[37] The story artists discarded the original version and started from scratch. However, they decided to retain several story points from earlier suggestions,[24] including the prince's acquaintance with the princess before the curse is fulfilled[38] and a shorter sleep.[24] The story team initially worked out an elaborate sequence in which the characters meet during a treasure hunt, but abandoned it, feeling that it became too drawn-out and drifted from the central storyline. It was written instead that the prince and princess would meet in the forest by chance,[30] which had been introduced in the 1951 outline.[31] Striving for more serious storytelling,[24] Disney decided to cut several gags and comic scenes with the Three Good Fairies which he felt were too "slapsticky" and more appropriate for Donald Duck shorts;[39] in one, the fairies (who had been renamed Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather) try to bake a birthday cake for the princess and accidentally blow up the oven.[39] The good fairies were originally intended to rule the domains indicated by their names; Flora would be in charge of flowers and plants, Fauna was to oversee the animals and birds, and Merryweather would control the climate. Disney discarded this idea as well, feeling that it did not advance the central storyline.[9]

Part of the difficulty was in differentiating Disney's third princess, who had been named Aurora, from Snow White and Cinderella.[24] The story artists came up with an idea of the fairies raising her in a forest cottage,[38] with Aurora unaware of her background or the danger she faced. She was also given a different personality – "a freshness and a modern sensibility" – to make her more appealing to audiences.[24] In earlier versions of the story, Aurora would encounter Maleficent, who would trick her into pricking the finger on the spindle.[40] However, Disney felt that the "eerie, haunting presentation of a victim powerless in the hands of evil" would be a better, stronger choice, and the scene was rewritten to have Maleficent lure Aurora with hypnosis.[41] The improvement of his animators' skill in drafting a realistic male figure prompted Disney to expand the role of the prince, who had been named Phillip.[24] To establish him as Aurora's "true love", the story artists developed a plot in which Maleficent kidnaps Phillip and plans to keep him prisoner in her castle for a century (which was also a reference to the 100-year slumber in Perrault's story).[42] Several story elements originated from discarded ideas for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Cinderella (1950), including the prince and princess dancing on a cloud (Disney's favorite concept)[43] and Phillip's escape from Maleficent's domain.[44] More story sessions were held for Sleeping Beauty than for any previous Disney animated production.[43]

Casting Edit

 
Mary Costa worked closely with Marc Davis, Aurora's supervising animator, who incorporated her features into the character.[45]

Disney spent three years searching for an "ethereal" voice for Princess Aurora,[25] and considered shelving the project[46] before Mary Costa was cast in June 1952.[47] She was invited to audition by Walter Schumann, who heard her singing at a dinner party for the entertainment industry.[48] Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Costa had a strong Southern accent which nearly prevented her from being cast until she proved that she could sustain a British accent.[49] Disney contacted Costa within hours of her audition to confirm that she had the role[50] and communicated with her at least twice a week[51] for nine months[46] with advice or guidance by telephone,[52] since he did not want her personality or appearance to influence his vision of the character.[53] Before Costa was cast, LP records by forty female singers were heard by the story artists; fifteen of them auditioned.[54] Costa recorded for three years, from 1952 to 1955.[46]

Twenty singers auditioned for the role of Prince Phillip and Bill Shirley, who had a high baritone voice and experience in light opera, was the final choice. Before he and Costa were selected, they made audition records together to determine if their voices complemented each other; Disney was convinced that they did, and approved the casting.[55] Many actors auditioned for the role of King Stefan, and Taylor Holmes was cast due to his "bemused, but dignified" voice.[43] Sleeping Beauty was the final performance for Holmes, who died eight months after the film's release. An early character outline for King Hubert described him as "built like Bill Thompson, fat and square ... lovable but hot-tempered ... gets in his own trap then explodes ... sincere". Thompson, who had voiced the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Mr. Smee in Peter Pan (1953),[56] got the role.[16]

Disney personally suggested Eleanor Audley, who had voiced Lady Tremaine in Cinderella (1950), for Maleficent.[37] Audley initially refused, since she had tuberculosis and was unsure if she was strong enough for recording sessions, but reconsidered when she began feeling better.[22] About her voice work for the character, Audley later said that she "tried to do a lot of contrasting to be both sweet and nasty at the same time".[43] The character outline for Flora described her as "the matriarch type, large and dominating ... talks with a great deal of authority, is the practical one of the Good Fairies—the 'Doc' type";[16] this prompted Disney to cast Verna Felton,[14] who had voiced similar characters in Dumbo (1941), Cinderella (1950), and Alice in Wonderland (1951).[49] Disney chose Barbara Jo Allen for Fauna, who had been frequently compared by the story artists to Jo Allen's character Vera Vague in The Bob Hope Show;[16] Barbara Luddy, who had voiced Lady in Lady and the Tramp (1955), was cast as Merryweather.[14]

Production delays Edit

It was very difficult for him to put his mind on this picture. I think mainly because Walt was working on Disneyland, he was occupied with that ... He just didn't have time or energy to come in as often as we'd like him to. He come in if we pressed him, but otherwise he'd just say "Well, I think you're doing okay. Why don't you go ahead, and I'll come in later" ... He just didn't have the creative juices going on this picture than he did on most of them.

—Ollie Johnston, on Walt Disney's involvement in the film's production[24]

By mid-1952,[57] Disney had planned to release Sleeping Beauty on Christmas in 1955.[58] Production began in July 1953,[59] when supervising director Wilfred Jackson recorded the dialogue, assembled a story reel, and was to begin preliminary animation for a pilot scene in which Aurora and Phillip meet in the forest. The scene was extensively rewritten over the next few months due to a lukewarm response from Disney; Jackson had a heart attack in December 1953 and was replaced by Eric Larson,[57] whose unit would animate the forest scene.[60] The film was scheduled for a February 1957 release by April 1954,[57] and was later postponed to Christmas 1957.[58] By July 1954, Disney began building the Disneyland theme park and developing a number of television series, including Disneyland and The Mickey Mouse Club. Most of the studio personnel who were working on Sleeping Beauty at that time were assigned to develop those projects, and the film's production was suspended. During its dormancy, the project was given to Erdman Penner and Joe Rinaldi for further development,[38] and the castle at Disneyland was called Sleeping Beauty Castle to promote the film.[61]

Production of Sleeping Beauty resumed in December 1956,[38] with its release rescheduled for Christmas 1958.[58] Although Disney insisted on overseeing every aspect of the film,[62] he remained focused on Disneyland;[63] animators such as Milt Kahl blamed him for the many delays. According to studio executive Harry Tytle, Disney expressed disinterest in the project after an August 1957 screening of finished footage; he "seemed to be tired, had so much on his mind. He didn't give this the treatment he would have in years past, where he'd go in for a couple of days and fine-tooth comb the whole picture ... His comments were general rather than specific."[58] Production delays led to a significant increase in the film's budget; the $10,000 forest scene, which took several years to complete,[64] exceeded its budget and displeased Disney.[22] Relatively late in production, he replaced supervising director Larson with Clyde Geronimi.[65] A quota system was introduced to keep costs down, with animators required to create a specified number of drawings per day.[66]

Animation Edit

Art direction Edit

To distinguish Sleeping Beauty from his previous features,[67] Disney decided to take a different approach to the film's visual design.[22] After one of the story meetings, he told Larson that he needed a "moving illustration" and did not care how long it would take.[68] By December 1952,[69] Kay Nielsen – whose sketches were the basis for the Night on Bald Mountain segment in Fantasia (1940) – was the first to create styling sketches for the film[70] which suggested an "ethereal depiction of the Middle Ages".[71] Although he was impressed with his artwork, Ken Anderson (the film's production designer)[72] felt that Nielsen's soft pastel paintings would be difficult to translate into animation. Disney tasked John Hench to help interpret Nielsen's artwork with opaque cel paint,[73] but Nielsen left the studio by April 1953.[69] The film's tapestry-like style developed after Hench's visit to the Cloisters of Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where he saw the Unicorn Tapestries series.[74] Hench brought reproductions of the tapestries back to Disney, suggesting them as a visual template for Sleeping Beauty which Disney approved.[75] Hench made sketches inspired by the museum visit, and background artist Eyvind Earle made trial paintings based on those drawings.[49]

I wanted stylized, simplified Gothic. Straight, tall, perpendicular lines like Gothic cathedrals ... I used one-point perspective. I rearranged the bushes and trees in geometrical patterns. I made a medieval tapestry out of the surface wherever possible. All my foregrounds were tapestry designs of decorative weeds and flowers and grasses. And since it is obvious that the Gothic style and detail evolved from the Arabic influence acquired during the Crusades, I found it perfectly permissible to use all the wonderful patterns and details found in Persian miniatures. And since Persian miniatures had a lot in common with Chinese and Japanese art, I felt it was OK for me to inject quite a bit of Japanese art, especially in the close-up of leaves and overhanging branches.

—Eyvind Earle on devising the film's background styling[76]

Wanting Sleeping Beauty to have a unified look from beginning to end,[77] Disney made Earle both the film's color stylist and artistic director,[78] with unprecedented control of the film's visual appearance.[28] Sleeping Beauty was the first Disney film in which background paintings determined its art direction.[79] Earle was influenced by the pre-Renaissance Northern European art[80] (including the works of Pieter Bruegel, Albrecht Dürer,[24] Huybrecht van Eyck,[81] Giotto di Bondone,[42] and Sandro Botticelli),[82] as well as by Gothic and Persian art,[77] medieval tapestries, and Japanese prints.[80] For Sleeping Beauty, his main inspiration was the illuminated manuscript of Herman and Jean Limbourg, Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, from which he took key colors such as the yellow-green of Maleficent's flames and pink and blue for Aurora's gown.[80] Earle created about three hundred visual-development paintings,[42] hundreds of small-scene sketches,[76] and dozens of key background paintings, some fifteen feet long.[81] Over eight hundred other backgrounds in the film were created by Frank Armitage, Thelma Witmer, Al Dempster, Walt Peregoy, Bill Layne, Ralph Hulett, Dick Anthony, Fil Mottola, Richard H. Thomas, and Anthony Rizzo, who worked under Earle's supervision and followed his style to maintain consistency in the film's design.[83]

Although the layout artists and animators were impressed with Earle's paintings, they became discouraged by working in a style which many considered "too cold, flat, and modernist" for a fairy-tale feature.[84] Animators struggled to make the characters (which had to be stylized to match Earle's style) stand out against his detailed background paintings,[85] with their design and color styling inhibiting character animation.[86] At one point, a group of animators, including Frank Thomas and Milt Kahl,[86] rebelled and went to Disney's office to complain.[77] However, Disney insisted on the visual design, saying that the inspirational art he had commissioned in the past (such as Mary Blair's)[80] had always been homogenized by the animators.[84] Earle's design prompted Disney to film Sleeping Beauty in Super Technirama 70,[37] the first animated film in this format.[87] This decision presented additional difficulties for animators and layout artists, who had to work with very large sheets of paper[49] and create twice as much art to fill the frame.[24] Sleeping Beauty was the last hand-inked Disney animated feature film before the studio switched to the Xerox process with One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961).[22] Xerox, however, was partially used in Sleeping Beauty to animate the forest of thorns in the final battle scene.[88]

Supervising director Clyde Geronimi had creative differences with Earle,[65] feeling that Earle's paintings "didn't have the mood ... All that beautiful detail in the trees, the bark, and all that, that's all well and good, but who the hell's going to look at that? The backgrounds became more important than the animation. He'd made them more like Christmas cards".[60] By that time, Disney felt that too much focus was on the film's design at the expense of its story.[58] In March 1958, before Sleeping Beauty was completed, Earle left the Disney studio for John Sutherland Productions; Geronimi then had the background paintings softened with an airbrush so they did not compete with the animation.[65]

Live-action references Edit

Before animation began, a live-action reference version was filmed with actors in costumes as models for the animators; Disney insisted on this because he wanted the characters to appear "as real as possible, near flesh-and-blood".[89] Several animators (such as Milt Kahl) objected to this method, calling it "a crutch, a stifling of the creative effort ... anyone worth his salt in this business ought to know how people move".[3] By March 1954,[90] Helene Stanley – who had been a model for the titular character in Cinderella (1950) – was hired to provide a live-action reference for Princess Aurora and several scenes of the Three Good Fairies.[91] Stanley was chosen from over three hundred candidates interviewed for the role.[92] Her costume for Aurora's woodland disguise, Briar Rose, was created by Alice Estes at the behest of her future husband Marc Davis as her first job assignment for the Disney studio.[93]

Prince Phillip was modeled by Ed Kemmer.[89] For a few scenes in the final battle scene, Kemmer had to ride a wooden wagon imitating a horse which was controlled by the animators.[94] Cubby O'Brien, a Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club, was a model for young Phillip.[91] The live-action reference for Maleficent was provided by her voice actress Eleanor Audley and dancer Jane Fowler,[11] who was also a model for Queen Leah.[95] Among the actresses who appeared in reference footage for the Three Good Fairies were Spring Byington, Madge Blake, and Frances Bavier.[37] Hans Conried and Don Barclay, who had previously modeled for Captain Hook and Mr. Smee in Peter Pan (1953), were live-action references for King Stefan[96] and King Hubert.[97] The lackey who serves wine to the kings in the "Skumps" scene was modeled by Franklin Pangborn.[98]

Character animation Edit

Tom Oreb, whose designs employed a "straight-against-curve" motif similar to Earle's backgrounds, was the film's character stylist;[99] Oreb was the first Disney artist to receive a sole credit in that capacity.[43] He worked closely with Earle (who also had decision-making capability in character designs and color schemes)[77] and created preliminary sketches for most of the characters,[24] incorporating strong horizontal and vertical planes of the background paintings into the designs.[25] The studio's ink and paint department made finished cels of Oreb's sketches, which were placed over Earle's backgrounds to ensure that they would match the film's style.[100] The animators complained that Oreb's designs, like Earle's styling, were too rigid to animate.[101] According to Ken Anderson, the characters became "really, unfortunately, quite stiff. In order to fit this mannered background, they, too, took on a sort of cylindrical, geometrical shape that didn't lend itself as well to the ... Well, you might say, the Bambi type of animation. It wasn't really possible just to make the characters fit the style and still be quite as attractive."[22]

Marc Davis, who (unlike most of the animators) embraced Earle's style,[80] was the supervising animator of Princess Aurora.[102] Collaborating with Oreb, he created a "leading lady of elegance"[93] whose earlier designs were influenced by Audrey Hepburn.[7] Stylizing the character to match the backgrounds, Oreb incorporated vertical lines into the folds of her costume and two-dimensional swirls into her hair;[25] Davis slightly sharpened her features and clothes,[7] adding Art Nouveau and Art Deco style to her curls.[93] Aurora's final design was more refined than those of preceding Disney heroines, and therefore required much more attention to detail than any animated character before.[93] Iwao Takamoto, who handled the quality control of Aurora's animation, called working with her animation drawings a "laborious job"[99] which limited in-betweeners (such as himself) to completing only six or seven drawings per day;[93] twenty-four were required for each second of film.[5]

 
In designing Maleficent, Marc Davis experimented with flamelike shapes and triangular color patterns.[25]

Davis was also tasked with supervising Maleficent's animation.[103] He takes sole credit for the character's design,[101] which was influenced by a religious painting in a Czechoslovakian art book which Davis found in his home library.[93] Although his original designs had red trim on Maleficent's costume to highlight its flame-like shape,[103] Earle requested a change to lavender because red would appear too strong.[93] Davis also added horns and a collar resembling bat wings to give the character a diabolic look,[104] and endowed her costume with a reptilian quality to foreshadow the dragon into which she would transform at the film's climax.[25] Animating Maleficent was challenging for Davis because of the character's tendency to soliloquize and her lack of physical contact with other characters;[105] this was resolved with the introduction of Diablo, Maleficent's raven,[49] whom Davis also designed and animated.[42] Maleficent's dragon form was animated by Eric Cleworth,[106] who based its head movements on those of a rattlesnake.[42]

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, who struggled the most to adapt to Earle's style,[22] were the supervising animators of Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather.[107] Disney initially urged that the characters be homogeneous, like Huey, Dewey, and Louie; Thomas and Johnston objected,[108] feeling that it would be more interesting for each fairy to have a distinct personality.[109] Oreb's earlier designs portrayed the characters in a stricter geometrical style, reflecting the three primary shapes (square, triangle, and circle); this was too difficult to animate, and was discarded.[24] The final design was set after Don DaGradi created preliminary drawings[110] suggesting a "lighter and more delicate" look for the fairies,[111] although they retained angularity in their capes and headdresses to match the background styling.[22] Thomas and Johnston studied the movements of old women they saw at wedding receptions and grocery stores for help in animation,[108] and the fairies' costume design was influenced by wardrobe books for medieval Scandinavian and German-style attire.[110]

Milt Kahl, who had animated similar characters in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)[112] and Cinderella (1950),[113] animated Prince Phillip[114] but was displeased with the character's limited emotional range.[115] He also animated Phillip's horse, Samson[49] (whose design was influenced by the works of Ronald Searle),[43] King Stefan, and King Hubert.[116] Kahl's characters were co-animated by John Lounsbery,[117] who also worked on Aurora's forest-animal friends[118] and the pig-like leader of Maleficent's goons.[119] Among other animators working on the film were Wolfgang Reitherman, who directed the climactic dragon battle sequence;[120] Les Clark, who directed the opening scene in which the townspeople march to the castle for Aurora's christening;[121] and John Sibley, who animated the lackey.[49]

Music Edit

The use of music from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's 1889 ballet The Sleeping Beauty was discussed early in the film's development,[122] but the idea was initially discarded due to the potential difficulty of adapting Tchaikovsky's ballet as a film score.[24] Jack Lawrence and Sammy Fain were signed to write the film's original songs in April 1952,[123] and Walter Schumann was the composer.[124] A song score was produced by late summer of that year, which included the main title song and its reprise[125] by Fain and Victor Young;[126] the opening number "Holiday", sung by the royal subjects celebrating Princess Aurora's birth,[127] followed by "It Happens I Have a Picture", in which King Stefan and King Hubert discuss the virtues of their respective children;[128] "Sunbeams (Bestowal of Gifts)", sung by the Three Good Fairies and Maleficent as they bestow gifts on Aurora;[129] "Where in the World", Aurora's solo, followed by the love song "Once Upon a Dream", in which she meets Prince Phillip; and "Mirage (Follow Your Heart)", in which Aurora is lured to the spinning wheel.[126]

After Eyvind Earle became the film's artistic director[125] the following year,[130] Disney returned to the idea of using Tchaikovsky's ballet score;[122] he felt that Lawrence and Fain's Broadway-type songs of would clash with Earle's stylized design.[49] Schumann unsuccessfully tried to create new arrangements for the songs which would give them a "Tchaikovsky sound",[125] but the original song score was unusable except for "Once Upon a Dream" (which was based on the ballet's "Garland Waltz" theme).[130] Schumann later left the project due to creative differences with Disney, and Ward Kimball recommended that George Bruns replace him.[131] Sleeping Beauty was Bruns' first collaboration with the Disney studio[122] and his first experience as a film composer.[125]

Working closely with animators, directors, and story artists, Bruns studied and experimented with Tchaikovsky's music for three years to make it work as a film score.[132] The opening number, "Hail to the Princess Aurora" (sung by the royal subjects going to the castle for Aurora's christening) was based on a march in the ballet's prologue; the third strain of the "Garland Waltz" became "I Wonder", sung by Aurora as she walks through the forest with her animal friends.[125] For the scene in which Maleficent lures Aurora to the spinning wheel, Bruns used the "Puss in Boots" theme from the ballet's third act due to its "ominous quality that fitted perfectly into the needs of the suspense sequence".[133] He made several attempts to create a song from the "Silver Fairy" theme,[24] resulting in "Riddle, Diddle, One, Two, Three"[134] (sung by Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather as they prepare birthday presents for Aurora).[135] The song was eventually cut, but its melody remained in the scene.[24] Among other deleted songs were "Evil—Evil", which would have been sung by Maleficent and her goons,[134] and "Go to Sleep", in which the Three Good Fairies put a sleeping spell on the castle.[136]

Four of Bruns' songs based on the ballet score were used in the film: "Hail to the Princess Aurora", "The Gifts of Beauty and Song", "I Wonder", and "Sleeping Beauty".[125] For "Skumps", sung by King Stefan and King Hubert as they toast their children's upcoming wedding, Bruns composed his own tune in Tchaikovsky's style because he could not find anything suitable in the ballet.[132] The song lyrics were written by Tom Adair, Erdman Penner, Winston Hibler, and Ted Sears;[137] most have the same placement and purpose in the plot as Fain and Lawrence's original songs.[125] Recording of the music began in the United States[138] but, due to a musicians' strike,[134] Disney sent Bruns to a state-of-the-art studio in Berlin[25] which permitted a new stereo sound system for the film.[49] Sleeping Beauty's score was the first true-stereo soundtrack.[138] It was recorded with the Graunke Symphony Orchestra from September 8 to November 25, 1958.[25]

Release Edit

Original theatrical run Edit

The film's 1958 trailer

Sleeping Beauty premiered at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles on January 29, 1959,[139] and was released in theaters[140][c] with the Academy Award-winning short documentary film Grand Canyon (1958).[142] It was shown in selected theaters which were specially equipped to project the film in large-format Super Technirama 70 with six-track stereophonic sound.[25] To promote the film,[134] a Disneyland episode entitled "The Peter Tchaikovsky Story" was aired on ABC on January 30, 1959.[143] The episode, which included a loose version of Tchaikovsky's life,[144] Disney's explanation of the Super Technirama 70 process, and clips from Sleeping Beauty,[145] was the first television show simulcast in stereo.[143]

With a production budget of $6 million,[1] Sleeping Beauty was the most expensive Disney film at the time; it was over twice as expensive as each of the preceding three Disney animated features: Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), and Lady and the Tramp (1955).[141] During its original release, the film grossed approximately $5.3 million (the distributor's share of the box office gross) in the United States and Canada.[146] It was considered a box-office bomb, and Buena Vista Distribution (Disney's distribution division) lost $900,000.[147] Eric Larson blamed the studio's publicity department for the film's underperformance, feeling that The Shaggy Dog (released later that year) had a far more extensive and successful advertising campaign.[139] The production costs and box-office failure of Sleeping Beauty, coupled with the underperformance of much of Disney's 1959–1960 release slate, caused him to lose interest in animation;[62] his company posted an annual loss of $1,300,000 for fiscal year 1960 (its first in a decade),[1] and there were massive layoffs throughout the animation department.[148]

Re-releases Edit

Sleeping Beauty was re-released theatrically in 1970[149] on standard 35 mm film, earning $3.8 million.[150] It was re-released in May 1979 in the original 70 mm format[151] for a ten-week test engagement at Seattle's Crest Theatre[152] before a wider release later that year[153] in 70 and 35 mm, with stereo and mono sound.[150] The film was re-released in 1986[154] (grossing $40 million in the United States and Canada)[155] and in 1995.[156] With a lifetime gross in the United States and Canada of $51.6 million from all releases,[2] Sleeping Beauty is the second-most-successful film released in 1959 behind Ben-Hur.[157] Adjusted for ticket-price inflation, the domestic total gross is nearly $681 million; this makes it one of the top 40 highest-grossing films.[158]

Home media Edit

On October 14, 1986, Sleeping Beauty was released on VHS, Betamax, and LaserDisc as part of the Walt Disney Classics collection;[159] over one million videocassettes were sold.[160] The film began a moratorium on March 31, 1988.[161] Digitally restored in 1997, it was released on VHS and LaserDisc[162] in fullscreen and widescreen as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection on September 16 of that year.[163] To commemorate the release, Mary Costa (the voice of Princess Aurora) hosted a special theatrical screening of the film in her hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee.[164]

Sleeping Beauty was released on VHS and in a two-disc Special Edition DVD on September 9, 2003;[165] the DVD edition included widescreen (formatted at 2.35:1) and fullscreen versions of the film.[166] The DVD also included a making-of featurette from the 1997 VHS, the Grand Canyon short documentary film, the life-of-Tchaikovsky segment of the Disneyland episode "The Peter Tchaikovsky Story",[167] a 1951 story outline of the film, live-action reference clips, a virtual gallery of concept art, layout and background designs, three trailers, and audio commentary by Mary Costa, Eyvind Earle, Ollie Johnston, and others.[166] The release ended on January 31, 2004.[168]

On October 7, 2008, a Platinum Edition of Sleeping Beauty was released as a two-disc DVD and on Blu-ray; it was the first installment in the Platinum line released in high-definition video.[169] This release was based on the 2007 restoration of the film from its original Technicolor negatives (interpositives, several generations removed from the original negative, were used for other home-video releases) in its full-negative aspect ratio of 2.55:1, which is wider than both prints shown at the film's original Technirama engagements (2.20:1) and the CinemaScope-compatible reduction prints for general release at 2.35:1.[170] It included an online feature BD-Live, an new documentary Picture Perfect: The Making of Sleeping Beauty, a virtual recreation of Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough at Disneyland, an alternate opening of the film, four deleted songs, and bonus features from the previous DVD release.[171] The set returned to the Disney Vault on January 30, 2010.[172]

Sleeping Beauty was re-released on Diamond Edition Blu-ray and DVD and on Digital HD on October 7, 2014,[173] including the documentary short Art of Evil: Generations Of Disney Villains (dedicated to animators and the legacy of villains in Disney features), three deleted scenes from the film, karaoke, and extras from the Platinum Blu-ray release.[174] For its 60th anniversary on September 24, 2019, Sleeping Beauty was re-released for HD digital download and on Blu-ray as part of the Walt Disney Signature Collection.[175]

Lawsuit Edit

In May 1989, Mary Costa sued the Walt Disney Company for royalties of $2 million[176] owed to her since the 1986 home-video release of Sleeping Beauty. Costa said that her contract with the studio prevented it from producing "phonograph recordings or transcriptions for sale to the public" without her permission, although Disney said that the videotapes were nothing more than versions of the film.[177] The case had been settled out of court by June 1991, with Costa receiving an undisclosed sum.[178]

Reception Edit

Critical response Edit

Sleeping Beauty received mixed reviews from critics, with many praising its art direction, voice acting, and musical score but criticizing its plot and characters.[139] Ren Grevatt of Billboard called the film a "Disney best" and complimented its score, colors, and the final battle scene, which he described as a "hair-raiser for the youngsters and grown-up alike."[179] Variety praised the vocal work of Mary Costa and Bill Shirley, and called the scenes involving the Three Good Fairies "some of the best parts of the picture."[180] For The New York Daily News, Kate Cameron wrote that the film "will charm the young and tickle adults" and praised its story, voice acting, and character animation.[181] George Bourke of the Miami Herald described the film as a "magnificent achievement, offering suspense, action and happy humor, in a truly giant-size package."[182] Lorna Carroll, writing for the St. Petersburg Times, called the film a "masterpiece and the last word in the art of animation"; however, although Sleeping Beauty is "far more magnificent, far more advanced, it does not touch the heart as did Snow White."[183] Henry Ward of The Pittsburgh Press praised the film's art direction and said that children "undoubtedly will find the film completely enchanting", adding that a more-mature audience "may find this new effort somewhat of a carbon copy" of previous Disney animated features.[184]

Bosley Crowther wrote for The New York Times that "the colors are rich, the sounds are luscious and magic sparkles spurt charmingly from wands", but felt that the film's plot and characters were too similar to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).[185] Philip K. Scheuer of Los Angeles Times praised the film's visual design, animation quality, and the Three Good Fairies and Maleficent, but criticized its "stereotyped" human characters and found himself more impressed by the accompanying short film Grand Canyon (1958).[186] In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Harold V. Cohen praised the film's "sharp and unmistakable" art style and animation but found the characters underdeveloped and "not exactly memorable".[187] Harrison's Reports also noted the film's similarity to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), saying that although Sleeping Beauty is "unquestionably superior from the viewpoint of the art of animation", it lacked the "unforgettable" characters, songs, and the overall entertainment appeal of Snow White.[188] Time harshly criticized the film, particularly its design: "Even the drawing in Sleeping Beauty is crude: a compromise between sentimental, crayon-book childishness and the sort of cute, commercial cubism that tries to seem daring but is really just square."[189]

Among contemporary reviews, Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader described Sleeping Beauty as "the masterpiece of the Disney Studios' postwar style". Kehr praised its use of the Super Technirama 70 process, particularly in the final battle scene.[190] Charles Solomon wrote for the Los Angeles Times that the film "represents the culmination of Walt Disney's effort to elevate animation to an art form". Solomon praised its visual design, the character of Maleficent, and the finale battle scene, but felt that it lacks "the strong story line of the other Disney features" (particularly the "not very interesting" romance between Aurora and Phillip).[191] Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine praised the film's "limber and giddy" art style and character animation, calling it "one of [Disney's] studio’s most under-cherished works."[192] A Time Out reviewer wrote that although Sleeping Beauty "rarely achieves the heights of classics like Snow White and Dumbo, it still has its moments", highlighting its "polished if sometimes stodgy" animation, soundtrack, and the final confrontation between Maleficent and Phillip.[193]

In his book, The Disney Films, Leonard Maltin praised the film's design: "The fantastic effort and phenomenal expense do show up on the screen; it is unquestionably Disney’s most elaborate cartoon film."[194] Its animators, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, said on their website that Sleeping Beauty was "dazzling in color and design but lacked warmth."[195] The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that the film had an 89% approval rating based on 46 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2/10. According to its consensus, "This Disney dreamscape contains moments of grandeur, with its lush colors, magical air, [and] one of the most menacing villains in the Disney canon."[196] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100 from 12 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[197]

Awards and nominations Edit

Award Category Nominee(s) Result
Academy Awards[198] Best Scoring of a Musical Picture George Bruns Nominated
Grammy Awards[199] Best Sound Track Album, Original Cast – Motion Picture or Television Sleeping Beauty Nominated
National Film Preservation Board[200] National Film Registry Inducted
Online Film & Television Association Awards[201][202] Hall of Fame – Motion Picture Inducted
Satellite Awards[203] Outstanding Overall Blu-Ray Disc Won
Outstanding Youth DVD Nominated
Saturn Awards[204] Best Classic Film DVD Release Nominated
Young Artist Awards[205] Best Musical Entertainment Featuring Youth – TV or Motion Picture Nominated

It has been recognized by the American Film Institute:

Legacy Edit

Main article: Sleeping Beauty (franchise)

Since its original release in 1959, Sleeping Beauty has become one of the most artistically-acclaimed animated films ever produced;[25] its artistic direction,[49] background and color styling,[80] and character animation have been praised.[209] It is considered one of the most influential Disney features by the animation industry,[37] with animators such as Mike Gabriel and Michael Giaimo citing the film as inspiring them to enter the business.[210][211] Giaimo was heavily influenced by Sleeping Beauty's background and color styling in his designs for Pocahontas (1995), Frozen (2013),[212] and Frozen II (2019).[213] Andreas Deja, Glen Keane, and Russ Edmonds were inspired by the film's design and animation for their characters in Aladdin (1992),[103] Pocahontas (1995),[80] and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).[214] In 2019, Sleeping Beauty was selected for preservation in the United States' National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[215]

 
Originally conceived as Snow White's, Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland was named to help promote the film.[216]

In 1955, while the film was still in production, Sleeping Beauty Castle opened at Disneyland as a symbol of the park and a promotional tool for the film.[61] Walt Disney and Shirley Temple opened an indoor walk-through exhibit with a series of dioramas depicting the story of Sleeping Beauty,[217] designed by Eyvind Earle and Ken Anderson, in 1957.[218] The walk-through was redesigned in 1977, replacing the original hand-painted displays with three-dimensional sets and doll-like figurines.[218] It was closed in 2001 due to declining attendance, although the September 11th attacks are also believed to be a factor.[219] The exhibit, refurbished to recreate the original 1957 dioramas,[219] reopened in 2008.[220] The film's characters (particularly Princess Aurora and Maleficent) make regular appearances in the parks and parades, with Maleficent a villain in the nighttime show Fantasmic! at Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios.

Opened in 1992, Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant at Disneyland Paris is a variant of Sleeping Beauty Castle with a gallery of displays illustrating the story of Sleeping Beauty in tapestries, stained-glass windows and figures.[221] The building also contains an animatronic version of Maleficent's dragon form, La Tanière du Dragon, in the lower-level dungeon.[222] Hong Kong Disneyland opened in 2005 with a Sleeping Beauty Castle nearly replicating Disneyland's design;[223] it was closed in 2018, redesigned as the Castle of Magical Dreams, and reopened in 2020.[224]

DisneyToon Studios released a 2007 direct-to-video animated film, Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, a new story with most of Sleeping Beauty's characters.[225] Many of the film's characters make cameo appearances in House of Mouse, The Lion King 1½, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.[226] Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather are recurring characters in the Disney Junior series Sofia the First,[227] and Aurora makes a guest appearance in the "Holiday in Enchancia" episode.[228] With other Disney Princesses, Aurora appears in the 2018 film Ralph Breaks the Internet.[229]

A 2014 live-action adaptation of the film, Maleficent, tells the story from the perspective of the antagonist (played by Angelina Jolie).[230] It was followed by a sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, in 2019.[231] Live-action versions of Sleeping Beauty characters are featured in the fantasy television series Once Upon a Time (produced by Disney-owned ABC Studios), including Maleficent,[232] Aurora,[233] Prince Phillip,[234] and King Stefan.[235] Maleficent is a main villain in the 2015 television film Descendants, which follows the teenage children of Disney's iconic heroes and villains (including Maleficent's daughter Mal[236] and Audrey, the daughter of Aurora and Phillip).[237]

Maleficent is a recurring villain in the Square Enix/Disney Kingdom Hearts video-game series,[238] and Aurora is one of the Princesses of Heart.[239] The Enchanted Dominion, a world based on the film, appears in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.[240] Aurora, Phillip, and the Three Good Fairies are playable characters in the world-builder video game Disney Magic Kingdoms,[241] with Maleficent its main antagonist.[242]

A retrospective exhibition, Awaking Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle, was presented at the Walt Disney Family Museum from May 18, 2017 to January 8, 2018.[243] With over 250 works such as thumbnail paintings, concept artworks, and commercial illustrations, the exhibit reflected Eyvind Earle's biography and his work at the Walt Disney Studios (including his contribution to Sleeping Beauty).[244] An exhibition catalog was published by Weldon Owen on August 8, 2017.[245]

See also Edit

Notes Edit

  1. ^ The Queen's name is not mentioned in the film. She is referred to as Leah in the film's 1993 book adaptation by A. L. Singer.
  2. ^ The raven's name is not mentioned in the film. He was referred to as Diablo by the animators during the film's production.[5]
  3. ^ Michael Barrier, on the other hand, indicates that the film did not reach theaters until April 1959.[141]

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sleeping, beauty, 1959, film, sleeping, beauty, 1959, american, animated, musical, fantasy, film, produced, walt, disney, productions, released, buena, vista, distribution, based, charles, perrault, 1697, fairy, tale, 16th, disney, animated, feature, film, pro. Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution Based on Charles Perrault s 1697 fairy tale it is the 16th Disney animated feature film The production was supervised by Clyde Geronimi and was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman Eric Larson and Les Clark With the voices of Mary Costa Bill Shirley Eleanor Audley Verna Felton Barbara Luddy Barbara Jo Allen Taylor Holmes and Bill Thompson the film follows Princess Aurora who was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from a prick from the spindle of a spinning wheel She is saved by three good fairies who alter the curse so that the princess falls into a deep sleep and is awakened by true love s kiss Sleeping BeautyTheatrical release posterDirected byClyde Geronimi Wolfgang Reitherman Eric Larson Les ClarkStory byErdman Penner Joe Rinaldi Winston Hibler Bill Peet Ted Sears Ralph Wright Milt BantaBased onSleeping Beautyby Charles PerraultProduced byWalt DisneyStarringMary Costa Bill Shirley Eleanor Audley Verna Felton Barbara Luddy Barbara Jo Allen Taylor Holmes Bill ThompsonEdited byRoy M Brewer Jr Donald HallidayMusic byGeorge BrunsProductioncompanyWalt Disney ProductionsDistributed byBuena Vista DistributionRelease dateJanuary 29 1959 1959 01 29 Running time75 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 6 million 1 Box office 51 6 million United States and Canada 2 Sleeping Beauty began development in 1950 The film took nearly a decade and 6 million 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 was 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 3 It was released in theaters on January 29 1959 to mixed reviews from critics who praised its art direction and musical score and criticized its plot and characters The film was a box office bomb in its initial release grossing 5 3 million Sleeping Beauty s re releases have been successful however 4 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 A live action reimagining of the film from Maleficent s perspective was released in 2014 followed by a sequel in 2019 That year Sleeping Beauty was selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry as culturally historically or aesthetically significant Contents 1 Plot 2 Voice cast 3 Production 3 1 Early development 3 2 Rewriting 3 3 Casting 3 4 Production delays 3 5 Animation 3 5 1 Art direction 3 5 2 Live action references 3 5 3 Character animation 3 6 Music 4 Release 4 1 Original theatrical run 4 2 Re releases 4 3 Home media 4 3 1 Lawsuit 5 Reception 5 1 Critical response 5 2 Awards and nominations 6 Legacy 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 Bibliography 11 External linksPlot EditKing Stefan and Queen Leah a rulers of a European kingdom welcome the birth of their daughter Aurora after many years of childlessness They proclaim a holiday for their subjects to pay homage to the princess and she is betrothed to Prince Phillip the son of Stefan s friend King Hubert at her christening to unite their kingdoms Among the guests are three good fairies Flora Fauna and Merryweather Flora and Fauna bless Aurora with beauty and song but Merryweather s gift is interrupted by the arrival of the evil fairy Maleficent As revenge for not being invited she curses the princess before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die Although her magic is not as powerful as Maleficent s Merryweather uses her blessing to weaken the curse Aurora will fall into a deep sleep instead of dying and will only awaken with true love s kiss King Stefan orders all the kingdom s spinning wheels burned as a precaution and the fairies come up with the idea of hiding Aurora in a forest cottage so she lives in safety until her sixteenth birthday At their urging Stefan and Leah reluctantly let them take their daughter away Years later Aurora renamed Briar Rose has become a beautiful young woman On her sixteenth birthday the fairies send her to gather berries so they can prepare a surprise party In the forest Aurora sees her animal friends and begins to sing this attracts the attention of Phillip now a handsome young man They meet and immediately fall in love Aurora invites Phillip to the cottage that evening Flora and Merryweather argue about the color of Aurora s birthday gown this attracts the attention of Maleficent s raven Diablo b who learns the princess whereabouts Back at home Aurora tells her guardians that she has fallen in love they tell her that she is a princess already betrothed to a prince and must never see the man she met again Meanwhile Phillip tells his father about the peasant girl he met and wants to marry despite his prearranged marriage King Hubert unsuccessfully tries to dissuade him Shortly before sunset the fairies bring Aurora to the castle for her birthday celebration Maleficent appears and lures her away from them to a tower room where Aurora pricks her finger on a spinning wheel spindle The fairies place the sleeping Aurora in the highest tower and cast a spell on the people in the castle causing them to sleep until their princess awakens Flora overhears a sleepy conversation between the kings and realizes that Phillip is the man with whom Aurora has fallen in love The fairies rush to the cottage only to learn that Phillip has been abducted by Maleficent and her goons At her domain the Forbidden Mountain Maleficent reveals Aurora s identity to Phillip She plans to lock him away for a century until he is on the verge of death before releasing him to meet Aurora who will not have aged a single day The fairies rescue Phillip and arm him with the magical Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue Maleficent surrounds Stefan s castle with a forest of thorns to stop Phillip but he breaks through it She then appears in front of him and transforms into a giant fire breathing dragon They fight and Phillip kills Maleficent by thrusting his sword into her heart Phillip awakens Aurora with a kiss breaking the spell and awakening the kingdom They descend to the ballroom where Aurora reunites with her parents and happily waltzes with Phillip while Flora and Merryweather continue arguing about the color of her dress Voice cast EditMain article List of Disney s Sleeping Beauty characters nbsp Characters from the film left to right forest animals the Goons Maleficent Diablo Prince Phillip Princess Aurora Flora Queen Leah Fauna Merryweather King Stefan King Hubert Samson and the Lackey Mary Costa as Princess Aurora 6 also known as Briar Rose and Sleeping Beauty a dreamy and romantic daughter of King Stefan and Queen Leah who is cursed by Maleficent 7 Bill Shirley as Prince Phillip 8 King Hubert s laid back and courageous son and Aurora s true love to whom she was betrothed He is occasionally accompanied by his horse Samson 9 Eleanor Audley as Maleficent 10 a powerful dark fairy and self proclaimed Mistress of All Evil who casts a deadly curse on Aurora 11 She is frequently accompanied by her raven Diablo 5 Verna Felton as Flora 12 Aurora s bossy and headstrong fairy godmother and guardian who is the leader of the Three Good Fairies Her signature color is red 13 Barbara Luddy as Merryweather 14 Aurora s feisty and short tempered fairy godmother and guardian who challenges Flora s leadership Her signature color is blue 15 Barbara Jo Allen as Fauna 16 Aurora s gentle and flighty fairy godmother and guardian who is a peacemaker between Flora and Merryweather Her signature color is green 17 Taylor Holmes as King Stefan 18 Aurora s regal soft spoken father and Queen Leah s husband 19 Bill Thompson as King Hubert 18 Phillip s jolly boisterous father and Stefan s lifelong friend 20 Candy Candido Pinto Colvig and Bob Amsberry voiced the Goons Maleficent s bumbling but menacing henchmen 16 21 Dallas McKennon voiced the Owl one of Aurora s animal friends 21 Marvin Miller was the film s narrator 22 Production EditEarly development Edit Walt Disney first considered making an animated version of Charles Perrault s fairy tale Sleeping Beauty in 1938 23 Preliminary artwork was submitted by Joe Grant but the project did not move forward 24 In January 1950 after a preview audience s positive response to Cinderella 24 Disney registered Sleeping Beauty as a planned production title with the Motion Picture Association of America 25 in November of that year he told the Los Angeles Times that development of the film had begun 26 Disney envisioned Sleeping Beauty as his masterpiece and the ultimate in animated filmmaking 27 and was willing to pool all resources needed to achieve that 23 Recognizing the difficulty of producing another fairy tale feature which would not be too reminiscent of his previous films notably Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 and Cinderella 1950 22 he repeatedly told his staff during production that it had to be different 28 Key early story work was done by Ted Sears Winston Hibler and Bill Peet who were joined by other story artists as production continued 29 They decided to discard the second half of the Perrault s story which describes a sleeping beauty married to a strange prince and focus on its first half 30 this ensured the development of a more convincing relationship between the characters 29 The earliest known story outline was written by April 1951 featuring a climactic wake up kiss and the encounter between prince and princess before she succumbs to the curse It also included the names of the fairies who had been reduced from eight to four and their corresponding magical abilities Tranquility the Fairy of Dreams Fernadell the Fairy of the Forest Merryweather the Fairy of the Elements and Maleficent the Fairy of Darkness 31 The story artists significantly expanded the fairies roles turning the good fairies into comical companions and guardians of the princess 32 and the evil fairy into a more powerful villain 33 In this version of the story Maleficent would conjure an indestructible spinning wheel which the king and queen would unsuccessfully try to get rid of they would be forced to hide their daughter in the castle walls and never let her out 31 The princess was envisioned as a poor little rich girl burdened by her royal pedigree and dreaming of exploring the world outside the castle similar to Jasmine in Aladdin 1992 24 Shortly before her sixteenth birthday the princess was to switch clothes with her maidservant and secretly escape to a nearby forest 31 or country fair 34 where she would meet and fall in love with the prince He would travel to a faraway land and return a few years later to fight Maleficent with the help of the good fairies find the sleeping princess and wake her up with the kiss 31 Story ideas of that period also included the good fairies attempting to surround the castle with a protective circle 34 and Maleficent s comically incompetent vulture sidekick 35 although the earlier outline depicted him as a huge sinister falcon 31 Rewriting Edit We had a lot of problems We were fighting to break away from what we had done in the past Sleeping Beauty was tough because it had many of the elements we had already used in Snow White and Cinderella You ve got to give the creators new things to work with so they ll be able to keep their enthusiasm up You re in trouble if they start saying Haven t we done this before We had to find out what we had and whether it would please the public I m never sure myself what they re going to buy Walt Disney on the difficulties of adapting Sleeping Beauty as an animated feature 36 By June 1952 the full storyboard of Sleeping Beauty was completed Disney rejected it however saying that its approach was too similar to his studio s earlier films 37 The story artists discarded the original version and started from scratch However they decided to retain several story points from earlier suggestions 24 including the prince s acquaintance with the princess before the curse is fulfilled 38 and a shorter sleep 24 The story team initially worked out an elaborate sequence in which the characters meet during a treasure hunt but abandoned it feeling that it became too drawn out and drifted from the central storyline It was written instead that the prince and princess would meet in the forest by chance 30 which had been introduced in the 1951 outline 31 Striving for more serious storytelling 24 Disney decided to cut several gags and comic scenes with the Three Good Fairies which he felt were too slapsticky and more appropriate for Donald Duck shorts 39 in one the fairies who had been renamed Flora Fauna and Merryweather try to bake a birthday cake for the princess and accidentally blow up the oven 39 The good fairies were originally intended to rule the domains indicated by their names Flora would be in charge of flowers and plants Fauna was to oversee the animals and birds and Merryweather would control the climate Disney discarded this idea as well feeling that it did not advance the central storyline 9 Part of the difficulty was in differentiating Disney s third princess who had been named Aurora from Snow White and Cinderella 24 The story artists came up with an idea of the fairies raising her in a forest cottage 38 with Aurora unaware of her background or the danger she faced She was also given a different personality a freshness and a modern sensibility to make her more appealing to audiences 24 In earlier versions of the story Aurora would encounter Maleficent who would trick her into pricking the finger on the spindle 40 However Disney felt that the eerie haunting presentation of a victim powerless in the hands of evil would be a better stronger choice and the scene was rewritten to have Maleficent lure Aurora with hypnosis 41 The improvement of his animators skill in drafting a realistic male figure prompted Disney to expand the role of the prince who had been named Phillip 24 To establish him as Aurora s true love the story artists developed a plot in which Maleficent kidnaps Phillip and plans to keep him prisoner in her castle for a century which was also a reference to the 100 year slumber in Perrault s story 42 Several story elements originated from discarded ideas for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 and Cinderella 1950 including the prince and princess dancing on a cloud Disney s favorite concept 43 and Phillip s escape from Maleficent s domain 44 More story sessions were held for Sleeping Beauty than for any previous Disney animated production 43 Casting Edit nbsp Mary Costa worked closely with Marc Davis Aurora s supervising animator who incorporated her features into the character 45 Disney spent three years searching for an ethereal voice for Princess Aurora 25 and considered shelving the project 46 before Mary Costa was cast in June 1952 47 She was invited to audition by Walter Schumann who heard her singing at a dinner party for the entertainment industry 48 Born in Knoxville Tennessee Costa had a strong Southern accent which nearly prevented her from being cast until she proved that she could sustain a British accent 49 Disney contacted Costa within hours of her audition to confirm that she had the role 50 and communicated with her at least twice a week 51 for nine months 46 with advice or guidance by telephone 52 since he did not want her personality or appearance to influence his vision of the character 53 Before Costa was cast LP records by forty female singers were heard by the story artists fifteen of them auditioned 54 Costa recorded for three years from 1952 to 1955 46 Twenty singers auditioned for the role of Prince Phillip and Bill Shirley who had a high baritone voice and experience in light opera was the final choice Before he and Costa were selected they made audition records together to determine if their voices complemented each other Disney was convinced that they did and approved the casting 55 Many actors auditioned for the role of King Stefan and Taylor Holmes was cast due to his bemused but dignified voice 43 Sleeping Beauty was the final performance for Holmes who died eight months after the film s release An early character outline for King Hubert described him as built like Bill Thompson fat and square lovable but hot tempered gets in his own trap then explodes sincere Thompson who had voiced the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland 1951 and Mr Smee in Peter Pan 1953 56 got the role 16 Disney personally suggested Eleanor Audley who had voiced Lady Tremaine in Cinderella 1950 for Maleficent 37 Audley initially refused since she had tuberculosis and was unsure if she was strong enough for recording sessions but reconsidered when she began feeling better 22 About her voice work for the character Audley later said that she tried to do a lot of contrasting to be both sweet and nasty at the same time 43 The character outline for Flora described her as the matriarch type large and dominating talks with a great deal of authority is the practical one of the Good Fairies the Doc type 16 this prompted Disney to cast Verna Felton 14 who had voiced similar characters in Dumbo 1941 Cinderella 1950 and Alice in Wonderland 1951 49 Disney chose Barbara Jo Allen for Fauna who had been frequently compared by the story artists to Jo Allen s character Vera Vague in The Bob Hope Show 16 Barbara Luddy who had voiced Lady in Lady and the Tramp 1955 was cast as Merryweather 14 Production delays Edit It was very difficult for him to put his mind on this picture I think mainly because Walt was working on Disneyland he was occupied with that He just didn t have time or energy to come in as often as we d like him to He come in if we pressed him but otherwise he d just say Well I think you re doing okay Why don t you go ahead and I ll come in later He just didn t have the creative juices going on this picture than he did on most of them Ollie Johnston on Walt Disney s involvement in the film s production 24 By mid 1952 57 Disney had planned to release Sleeping Beauty on Christmas in 1955 58 Production began in July 1953 59 when supervising director Wilfred Jackson recorded the dialogue assembled a story reel and was to begin preliminary animation for a pilot scene in which Aurora and Phillip meet in the forest The scene was extensively rewritten over the next few months due to a lukewarm response from Disney Jackson had a heart attack in December 1953 and was replaced by Eric Larson 57 whose unit would animate the forest scene 60 The film was scheduled for a February 1957 release by April 1954 57 and was later postponed to Christmas 1957 58 By July 1954 Disney began building the Disneyland theme park and developing a number of television series including Disneyland and The Mickey Mouse Club Most of the studio personnel who were working on Sleeping Beauty at that time were assigned to develop those projects and the film s production was suspended During its dormancy the project was given to Erdman Penner and Joe Rinaldi for further development 38 and the castle at Disneyland was called Sleeping Beauty Castle to promote the film 61 Production of Sleeping Beauty resumed in December 1956 38 with its release rescheduled for Christmas 1958 58 Although Disney insisted on overseeing every aspect of the film 62 he remained focused on Disneyland 63 animators such as Milt Kahl blamed him for the many delays According to studio executive Harry Tytle Disney expressed disinterest in the project after an August 1957 screening of finished footage he seemed to be tired had so much on his mind He didn t give this the treatment he would have in years past where he d go in for a couple of days and fine tooth comb the whole picture His comments were general rather than specific 58 Production delays led to a significant increase in the film s budget the 10 000 forest scene which took several years to complete 64 exceeded its budget and displeased Disney 22 Relatively late in production he replaced supervising director Larson with Clyde Geronimi 65 A quota system was introduced to keep costs down with animators required to create a specified number of drawings per day 66 Animation Edit Art direction Edit To distinguish Sleeping Beauty from his previous features 67 Disney decided to take a different approach to the film s visual design 22 After one of the story meetings he told Larson that he needed a moving illustration and did not care how long it would take 68 By December 1952 69 Kay Nielsen whose sketches were the basis for the Night on Bald Mountain segment in Fantasia 1940 was the first to create styling sketches for the film 70 which suggested an ethereal depiction of the Middle Ages 71 Although he was impressed with his artwork Ken Anderson the film s production designer 72 felt that Nielsen s soft pastel paintings would be difficult to translate into animation Disney tasked John Hench to help interpret Nielsen s artwork with opaque cel paint 73 but Nielsen left the studio by April 1953 69 The film s tapestry like style developed after Hench s visit to the Cloisters of Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City where he saw the Unicorn Tapestries series 74 Hench brought reproductions of the tapestries back to Disney suggesting them as a visual template for Sleeping Beauty which Disney approved 75 Hench made sketches inspired by the museum visit and background artist Eyvind Earle made trial paintings based on those drawings 49 I wanted stylized simplified Gothic Straight tall perpendicular lines like Gothic cathedrals I used one point perspective I rearranged the bushes and trees in geometrical patterns I made a medieval tapestry out of the surface wherever possible All my foregrounds were tapestry designs of decorative weeds and flowers and grasses And since it is obvious that the Gothic style and detail evolved from the Arabic influence acquired during the Crusades I found it perfectly permissible to use all the wonderful patterns and details found in Persian miniatures And since Persian miniatures had a lot in common with Chinese and Japanese art I felt it was OK for me to inject quite a bit of Japanese art especially in the close up of leaves and overhanging branches Eyvind Earle on devising the film s background styling 76 Wanting Sleeping Beauty to have a unified look from beginning to end 77 Disney made Earle both the film s color stylist and artistic director 78 with unprecedented control of the film s visual appearance 28 Sleeping Beauty was the first Disney film in which background paintings determined its art direction 79 Earle was influenced by the pre Renaissance Northern European art 80 including the works of Pieter Bruegel Albrecht Durer 24 Huybrecht van Eyck 81 Giotto di Bondone 42 and Sandro Botticelli 82 as well as by Gothic and Persian art 77 medieval tapestries and Japanese prints 80 For Sleeping Beauty his main inspiration was the illuminated manuscript of Herman and Jean Limbourg Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry from which he took key colors such as the yellow green of Maleficent s flames and pink and blue for Aurora s gown 80 Earle created about three hundred visual development paintings 42 hundreds of small scene sketches 76 and dozens of key background paintings some fifteen feet long 81 Over eight hundred other backgrounds in the film were created by Frank Armitage Thelma Witmer Al Dempster Walt Peregoy Bill Layne Ralph Hulett Dick Anthony Fil Mottola Richard H Thomas and Anthony Rizzo who worked under Earle s supervision and followed his style to maintain consistency in the film s design 83 Although the layout artists and animators were impressed with Earle s paintings they became discouraged by working in a style which many considered too cold flat and modernist for a fairy tale feature 84 Animators struggled to make the characters which had to be stylized to match Earle s style stand out against his detailed background paintings 85 with their design and color styling inhibiting character animation 86 At one point a group of animators including Frank Thomas and Milt Kahl 86 rebelled and went to Disney s office to complain 77 However Disney insisted on the visual design saying that the inspirational art he had commissioned in the past such as Mary Blair s 80 had always been homogenized by the animators 84 Earle s design prompted Disney to film Sleeping Beauty in Super Technirama 70 37 the first animated film in this format 87 This decision presented additional difficulties for animators and layout artists who had to work with very large sheets of paper 49 and create twice as much art to fill the frame 24 Sleeping Beauty was the last hand inked Disney animated feature film before the studio switched to the Xerox process with One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 22 Xerox however was partially used in Sleeping Beauty to animate the forest of thorns in the final battle scene 88 Supervising director Clyde Geronimi had creative differences with Earle 65 feeling that Earle s paintings didn t have the mood All that beautiful detail in the trees the bark and all that that s all well and good but who the hell s going to look at that The backgrounds became more important than the animation He d made them more like Christmas cards 60 By that time Disney felt that too much focus was on the film s design at the expense of its story 58 In March 1958 before Sleeping Beauty was completed Earle left the Disney studio for John Sutherland Productions Geronimi then had the background paintings softened with an airbrush so they did not compete with the animation 65 Live action references Edit Before animation began a live action reference version was filmed with actors in costumes as models for the animators Disney insisted on this because he wanted the characters to appear as real as possible near flesh and blood 89 Several animators such as Milt Kahl objected to this method calling it a crutch a stifling of the creative effort anyone worth his salt in this business ought to know how people move 3 By March 1954 90 Helene Stanley who had been a model for the titular character in Cinderella 1950 was hired to provide a live action reference for Princess Aurora and several scenes of the Three Good Fairies 91 Stanley was chosen from over three hundred candidates interviewed for the role 92 Her costume for Aurora s woodland disguise Briar Rose was created by Alice Estes at the behest of her future husband Marc Davis as her first job assignment for the Disney studio 93 Prince Phillip was modeled by Ed Kemmer 89 For a few scenes in the final battle scene Kemmer had to ride a wooden wagon imitating a horse which was controlled by the animators 94 Cubby O Brien a Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club was a model for young Phillip 91 The live action reference for Maleficent was provided by her voice actress Eleanor Audley and dancer Jane Fowler 11 who was also a model for Queen Leah 95 Among the actresses who appeared in reference footage for the Three Good Fairies were Spring Byington Madge Blake and Frances Bavier 37 Hans Conried and Don Barclay who had previously modeled for Captain Hook and Mr Smee in Peter Pan 1953 were live action references for King Stefan 96 and King Hubert 97 The lackey who serves wine to the kings in the Skumps scene was modeled by Franklin Pangborn 98 Character animation Edit Tom Oreb whose designs employed a straight against curve motif similar to Earle s backgrounds was the film s character stylist 99 Oreb was the first Disney artist to receive a sole credit in that capacity 43 He worked closely with Earle who also had decision making capability in character designs and color schemes 77 and created preliminary sketches for most of the characters 24 incorporating strong horizontal and vertical planes of the background paintings into the designs 25 The studio s ink and paint department made finished cels of Oreb s sketches which were placed over Earle s backgrounds to ensure that they would match the film s style 100 The animators complained that Oreb s designs like Earle s styling were too rigid to animate 101 According to Ken Anderson the characters became really unfortunately quite stiff In order to fit this mannered background they too took on a sort of cylindrical geometrical shape that didn t lend itself as well to the Well you might say the Bambi type of animation It wasn t really possible just to make the characters fit the style and still be quite as attractive 22 Marc Davis who unlike most of the animators embraced Earle s style 80 was the supervising animator of Princess Aurora 102 Collaborating with Oreb he created a leading lady of elegance 93 whose earlier designs were influenced by Audrey Hepburn 7 Stylizing the character to match the backgrounds Oreb incorporated vertical lines into the folds of her costume and two dimensional swirls into her hair 25 Davis slightly sharpened her features and clothes 7 adding Art Nouveau and Art Deco style to her curls 93 Aurora s final design was more refined than those of preceding Disney heroines and therefore required much more attention to detail than any animated character before 93 Iwao Takamoto who handled the quality control of Aurora s animation called working with her animation drawings a laborious job 99 which limited in betweeners such as himself to completing only six or seven drawings per day 93 twenty four were required for each second of film 5 nbsp In designing Maleficent Marc Davis experimented with flamelike shapes and triangular color patterns 25 Davis was also tasked with supervising Maleficent s animation 103 He takes sole credit for the character s design 101 which was influenced by a religious painting in a Czechoslovakian art book which Davis found in his home library 93 Although his original designs had red trim on Maleficent s costume to highlight its flame like shape 103 Earle requested a change to lavender because red would appear too strong 93 Davis also added horns and a collar resembling bat wings to give the character a diabolic look 104 and endowed her costume with a reptilian quality to foreshadow the dragon into which she would transform at the film s climax 25 Animating Maleficent was challenging for Davis because of the character s tendency to soliloquize and her lack of physical contact with other characters 105 this was resolved with the introduction of Diablo Maleficent s raven 49 whom Davis also designed and animated 42 Maleficent s dragon form was animated by Eric Cleworth 106 who based its head movements on those of a rattlesnake 42 Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston who struggled the most to adapt to Earle s style 22 were the supervising animators of Flora Fauna and Merryweather 107 Disney initially urged that the characters be homogeneous like Huey Dewey and Louie Thomas and Johnston objected 108 feeling that it would be more interesting for each fairy to have a distinct personality 109 Oreb s earlier designs portrayed the characters in a stricter geometrical style reflecting the three primary shapes square triangle and circle this was too difficult to animate and was discarded 24 The final design was set after Don DaGradi created preliminary drawings 110 suggesting a lighter and more delicate look for the fairies 111 although they retained angularity in their capes and headdresses to match the background styling 22 Thomas and Johnston studied the movements of old women they saw at wedding receptions and grocery stores for help in animation 108 and the fairies costume design was influenced by wardrobe books for medieval Scandinavian and German style attire 110 Milt Kahl who had animated similar characters in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 112 and Cinderella 1950 113 animated Prince Phillip 114 but was displeased with the character s limited emotional range 115 He also animated Phillip s horse Samson 49 whose design was influenced by the works of Ronald Searle 43 King Stefan and King Hubert 116 Kahl s characters were co animated by John Lounsbery 117 who also worked on Aurora s forest animal friends 118 and the pig like leader of Maleficent s goons 119 Among other animators working on the film were Wolfgang Reitherman who directed the climactic dragon battle sequence 120 Les Clark who directed the opening scene in which the townspeople march to the castle for Aurora s christening 121 and John Sibley who animated the lackey 49 Music Edit The use of music from Pyotr Tchaikovsky s 1889 ballet The Sleeping Beauty was discussed early in the film s development 122 but the idea was initially discarded due to the potential difficulty of adapting Tchaikovsky s ballet as a film score 24 Jack Lawrence and Sammy Fain were signed to write the film s original songs in April 1952 123 and Walter Schumann was the composer 124 A song score was produced by late summer of that year which included the main title song and its reprise 125 by Fain and Victor Young 126 the opening number Holiday sung by the royal subjects celebrating Princess Aurora s birth 127 followed by It Happens I Have a Picture in which King Stefan and King Hubert discuss the virtues of their respective children 128 Sunbeams Bestowal of Gifts sung by the Three Good Fairies and Maleficent as they bestow gifts on Aurora 129 Where in the World Aurora s solo followed by the love song Once Upon a Dream in which she meets Prince Phillip and Mirage Follow Your Heart in which Aurora is lured to the spinning wheel 126 After Eyvind Earle became the film s artistic director 125 the following year 130 Disney returned to the idea of using Tchaikovsky s ballet score 122 he felt that Lawrence and Fain s Broadway type songs of would clash with Earle s stylized design 49 Schumann unsuccessfully tried to create new arrangements for the songs which would give them a Tchaikovsky sound 125 but the original song score was unusable except for Once Upon a Dream which was based on the ballet s Garland Waltz theme 130 Schumann later left the project due to creative differences with Disney and Ward Kimball recommended that George Bruns replace him 131 Sleeping Beauty was Bruns first collaboration with the Disney studio 122 and his first experience as a film composer 125 Working closely with animators directors and story artists Bruns studied and experimented with Tchaikovsky s music for three years to make it work as a film score 132 The opening number Hail to the Princess Aurora sung by the royal subjects going to the castle for Aurora s christening was based on a march in the ballet s prologue the third strain of the Garland Waltz became I Wonder sung by Aurora as she walks through the forest with her animal friends 125 For the scene in which Maleficent lures Aurora to the spinning wheel Bruns used the Puss in Boots theme from the ballet s third act due to its ominous quality that fitted perfectly into the needs of the suspense sequence 133 He made several attempts to create a song from the Silver Fairy theme 24 resulting in Riddle Diddle One Two Three 134 sung by Flora Fauna and Merryweather as they prepare birthday presents for Aurora 135 The song was eventually cut but its melody remained in the scene 24 Among other deleted songs were Evil Evil which would have been sung by Maleficent and her goons 134 and Go to Sleep in which the Three Good Fairies put a sleeping spell on the castle 136 Four of Bruns songs based on the ballet score were used in the film Hail to the Princess Aurora The Gifts of Beauty and Song I Wonder and Sleeping Beauty 125 For Skumps sung by King Stefan and King Hubert as they toast their children s upcoming wedding Bruns composed his own tune in Tchaikovsky s style because he could not find anything suitable in the ballet 132 The song lyrics were written by Tom Adair Erdman Penner Winston Hibler and Ted Sears 137 most have the same placement and purpose in the plot as Fain and Lawrence s original songs 125 Recording of the music began in the United States 138 but due to a musicians strike 134 Disney sent Bruns to a state of the art studio in Berlin 25 which permitted a new stereo sound system for the film 49 Sleeping Beauty s score was the first true stereo soundtrack 138 It was recorded with the Graunke Symphony Orchestra from September 8 to November 25 1958 25 Release EditOriginal theatrical run Edit source source source source The film s 1958 trailerSleeping Beauty premiered at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles on January 29 1959 139 and was released in theaters 140 c with the Academy Award winning short documentary film Grand Canyon 1958 142 It was shown in selected theaters which were specially equipped to project the film in large format Super Technirama 70 with six track stereophonic sound 25 To promote the film 134 a Disneyland episode entitled The Peter Tchaikovsky Story was aired on ABC on January 30 1959 143 The episode which included a loose version of Tchaikovsky s life 144 Disney s explanation of the Super Technirama 70 process and clips from Sleeping Beauty 145 was the first television show simulcast in stereo 143 With a production budget of 6 million 1 Sleeping Beauty was the most expensive Disney film at the time it was over twice as expensive as each of the preceding three Disney animated features Alice in Wonderland 1951 Peter Pan 1953 and Lady and the Tramp 1955 141 During its original release the film grossed approximately 5 3 million the distributor s share of the box office gross in the United States and Canada 146 It was considered a box office bomb and Buena Vista Distribution Disney s distribution division lost 900 000 147 Eric Larson blamed the studio s publicity department for the film s underperformance feeling that The Shaggy Dog released later that year had a far more extensive and successful advertising campaign 139 The production costs and box office failure of Sleeping Beauty coupled with the underperformance of much of Disney s 1959 1960 release slate caused him to lose interest in animation 62 his company posted an annual loss of 1 300 000 for fiscal year 1960 its first in a decade 1 and there were massive layoffs throughout the animation department 148 Re releases Edit Sleeping Beauty was re released theatrically in 1970 149 on standard 35 mm film earning 3 8 million 150 It was re released in May 1979 in the original 70 mm format 151 for a ten week test engagement at Seattle s Crest Theatre 152 before a wider release later that year 153 in 70 and 35 mm with stereo and mono sound 150 The film was re released in 1986 154 grossing 40 million in the United States and Canada 155 and in 1995 156 With a lifetime gross in the United States and Canada of 51 6 million from all releases 2 Sleeping Beauty is the second most successful film released in 1959 behind Ben Hur 157 Adjusted for ticket price inflation the domestic total gross is nearly 681 million this makes it one of the top 40 highest grossing films 158 Home media Edit On October 14 1986 Sleeping Beauty was released on VHS Betamax and LaserDisc as part of the Walt Disney Classics collection 159 over one million videocassettes were sold 160 The film began a moratorium on March 31 1988 161 Digitally restored in 1997 it was released on VHS and LaserDisc 162 in fullscreen and widescreen as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection on September 16 of that year 163 To commemorate the release Mary Costa the voice of Princess Aurora hosted a special theatrical screening of the film in her hometown of Knoxville Tennessee 164 Sleeping Beauty was released on VHS and in a two disc Special Edition DVD on September 9 2003 165 the DVD edition included widescreen formatted at 2 35 1 and fullscreen versions of the film 166 The DVD also included a making of featurette from the 1997 VHS the Grand Canyon short documentary film the life of Tchaikovsky segment of the Disneyland episode The Peter Tchaikovsky Story 167 a 1951 story outline of the film live action reference clips a virtual gallery of concept art layout and background designs three trailers and audio commentary by Mary Costa Eyvind Earle Ollie Johnston and others 166 The release ended on January 31 2004 168 On October 7 2008 a Platinum Edition of Sleeping Beauty was released as a two disc DVD and on Blu ray it was the first installment in the Platinum line released in high definition video 169 This release was based on the 2007 restoration of the film from its original Technicolor negatives interpositives several generations removed from the original negative were used for other home video releases in its full negative aspect ratio of 2 55 1 which is wider than both prints shown at the film s original Technirama engagements 2 20 1 and the CinemaScope compatible reduction prints for general release at 2 35 1 170 It included an online feature BD Live an new documentary Picture Perfect The Making of Sleeping Beauty a virtual recreation of Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough at Disneyland an alternate opening of the film four deleted songs and bonus features from the previous DVD release 171 The set returned to the Disney Vault on January 30 2010 172 Sleeping Beauty was re released on Diamond Edition Blu ray and DVD and on Digital HD on October 7 2014 173 including the documentary short Art of Evil Generations Of Disney Villains dedicated to animators and the legacy of villains in Disney features three deleted scenes from the film karaoke and extras from the Platinum Blu ray release 174 For its 60th anniversary on September 24 2019 Sleeping Beauty was re released for HD digital download and on Blu ray as part of the Walt Disney Signature Collection 175 Lawsuit Edit In May 1989 Mary Costa sued the Walt Disney Company for royalties of 2 million 176 owed to her since the 1986 home video release of Sleeping Beauty Costa said that her contract with the studio prevented it from producing phonograph recordings or transcriptions for sale to the public without her permission although Disney said that the videotapes were nothing more than versions of the film 177 The case had been settled out of court by June 1991 with Costa receiving an undisclosed sum 178 Reception EditCritical response Edit Sleeping Beauty received mixed reviews from critics with many praising its art direction voice acting and musical score but criticizing its plot and characters 139 Ren Grevatt of Billboard called the film a Disney best and complimented its score colors and the final battle scene which he described as a hair raiser for the youngsters and grown up alike 179 Variety praised the vocal work of Mary Costa and Bill Shirley and called the scenes involving the Three Good Fairies some of the best parts of the picture 180 For The New York Daily News Kate Cameron wrote that the film will charm the young and tickle adults and praised its story voice acting and character animation 181 George Bourke of the Miami Herald described the film as a magnificent achievement offering suspense action and happy humor in a truly giant size package 182 Lorna Carroll writing for the St Petersburg Times called the film a masterpiece and the last word in the art of animation however although Sleeping Beauty is far more magnificent far more advanced it does not touch the heart as did Snow White 183 Henry Ward of The Pittsburgh Press praised the film s art direction and said that children undoubtedly will find the film completely enchanting adding that a more mature audience may find this new effort somewhat of a carbon copy of previous Disney animated features 184 Bosley Crowther wrote for The New York Times that the colors are rich the sounds are luscious and magic sparkles spurt charmingly from wands but felt that the film s plot and characters were too similar to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 185 Philip K Scheuer of Los Angeles Times praised the film s visual design animation quality and the Three Good Fairies and Maleficent but criticized its stereotyped human characters and found himself more impressed by the accompanying short film Grand Canyon 1958 186 In the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Harold V Cohen praised the film s sharp and unmistakable art style and animation but found the characters underdeveloped and not exactly memorable 187 Harrison s Reports also noted the film s similarity to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 saying that although Sleeping Beauty is unquestionably superior from the viewpoint of the art of animation it lacked the unforgettable characters songs and the overall entertainment appeal of Snow White 188 Time harshly criticized the film particularly its design Even the drawing in Sleeping Beauty is crude a compromise between sentimental crayon book childishness and the sort of cute commercial cubism that tries to seem daring but is really just square 189 Among contemporary reviews Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader described Sleeping Beauty as the masterpiece of the Disney Studios postwar style Kehr praised its use of the Super Technirama 70 process particularly in the final battle scene 190 Charles Solomon wrote for the Los Angeles Times that the film represents the culmination of Walt Disney s effort to elevate animation to an art form Solomon praised its visual design the character of Maleficent and the finale battle scene but felt that it lacks the strong story line of the other Disney features particularly the not very interesting romance between Aurora and Phillip 191 Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine praised the film s limber and giddy art style and character animation calling it one of Disney s studio s most under cherished works 192 A Time Out reviewer wrote that although Sleeping Beauty rarely achieves the heights of classics like Snow White and Dumbo it still has its moments highlighting its polished if sometimes stodgy animation soundtrack and the final confrontation between Maleficent and Phillip 193 In his book The Disney Films Leonard Maltin praised the film s design The fantastic effort and phenomenal expense do show up on the screen it is unquestionably Disney s most elaborate cartoon film 194 Its animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston said on their website that Sleeping Beauty was dazzling in color and design but lacked warmth 195 The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that the film had an 89 approval rating based on 46 reviews with an average rating of 8 2 10 According to its consensus This Disney dreamscape contains moments of grandeur with its lush colors magical air and one of the most menacing villains in the Disney canon 196 On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100 from 12 critics indicating universal acclaim 197 Awards and nominations Edit Award Category Nominee s ResultAcademy Awards 198 Best Scoring of a Musical Picture George Bruns NominatedGrammy Awards 199 Best Sound Track Album Original Cast Motion Picture or Television Sleeping Beauty NominatedNational Film Preservation Board 200 National Film Registry InductedOnline Film amp Television Association Awards 201 202 Hall of Fame Motion Picture InductedSatellite Awards 203 Outstanding Overall Blu Ray Disc WonOutstanding Youth DVD NominatedSaturn Awards 204 Best Classic Film DVD Release NominatedYoung Artist Awards 205 Best Musical Entertainment Featuring Youth TV or Motion Picture NominatedIt has been recognized by the American Film Institute 2003 AFI s 100 Years 100 Heroes amp Villains Maleficent Nominated Villain 206 2006 AFI s Greatest Movie Musicals Nominated 207 2008 AFI s 10 Top 10 Nominated Animation Film 208 Legacy EditMain article Sleeping Beauty franchise Since its original release in 1959 Sleeping Beauty has become one of the most artistically acclaimed animated films ever produced 25 its artistic direction 49 background and color styling 80 and character animation have been praised 209 It is considered one of the most influential Disney features by the animation industry 37 with animators such as Mike Gabriel and Michael Giaimo citing the film as inspiring them to enter the business 210 211 Giaimo was heavily influenced by Sleeping Beauty s background and color styling in his designs for Pocahontas 1995 Frozen 2013 212 and Frozen II 2019 213 Andreas Deja Glen Keane and Russ Edmonds were inspired by the film s design and animation for their characters in Aladdin 1992 103 Pocahontas 1995 80 and The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996 214 In 2019 Sleeping Beauty was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as culturally historically or aesthetically significant 215 nbsp Originally conceived as Snow White s Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland was named to help promote the film 216 In 1955 while the film was still in production Sleeping Beauty Castle opened at Disneyland as a symbol of the park and a promotional tool for the film 61 Walt Disney and Shirley Temple opened an indoor walk through exhibit with a series of dioramas depicting the story of Sleeping Beauty 217 designed by Eyvind Earle and Ken Anderson in 1957 218 The walk through was redesigned in 1977 replacing the original hand painted displays with three dimensional sets and doll like figurines 218 It was closed in 2001 due to declining attendance although the September 11th attacks are also believed to be a factor 219 The exhibit refurbished to recreate the original 1957 dioramas 219 reopened in 2008 220 The film s characters particularly Princess Aurora and Maleficent make regular appearances in the parks and parades with Maleficent a villain in the nighttime show Fantasmic at Disneyland and Disney s Hollywood Studios Opened in 1992 Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant at Disneyland Paris is a variant of Sleeping Beauty Castle with a gallery of displays illustrating the story of Sleeping Beauty in tapestries stained glass windows and figures 221 The building also contains an animatronic version of Maleficent s dragon form La Taniere du Dragon in the lower level dungeon 222 Hong Kong Disneyland opened in 2005 with a Sleeping Beauty Castle nearly replicating Disneyland s design 223 it was closed in 2018 redesigned as the Castle of Magical Dreams and reopened in 2020 224 DisneyToon Studios released a 2007 direct to video animated film Disney Princess Enchanted Tales Follow Your Dreams a new story with most of Sleeping Beauty s characters 225 Many of the film s characters make cameo appearances in House of Mouse The Lion King 1 and Who Framed Roger Rabbit 226 Flora Fauna and Merryweather are recurring characters in the Disney Junior series Sofia the First 227 and Aurora makes a guest appearance in the Holiday in Enchancia episode 228 With other Disney Princesses Aurora appears in the 2018 film Ralph Breaks the Internet 229 A 2014 live action adaptation of the film Maleficent tells the story from the perspective of the antagonist played by Angelina Jolie 230 It was followed by a sequel Maleficent Mistress of Evil in 2019 231 Live action versions of Sleeping Beauty characters are featured in the fantasy television series Once Upon a Time produced by Disney owned ABC Studios including Maleficent 232 Aurora 233 Prince Phillip 234 and King Stefan 235 Maleficent is a main villain in the 2015 television film Descendants which follows the teenage children of Disney s iconic heroes and villains including Maleficent s daughter Mal 236 and Audrey the daughter of Aurora and Phillip 237 Maleficent is a recurring villain in the Square Enix Disney Kingdom Hearts video game series 238 and Aurora is one of the Princesses of Heart 239 The Enchanted Dominion a world based on the film appears in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep 240 Aurora Phillip and the Three Good Fairies are playable characters in the world builder video game Disney Magic Kingdoms 241 with Maleficent its main antagonist 242 A retrospective exhibition Awaking Beauty The Art of Eyvind Earle was presented at the Walt Disney Family Museum from May 18 2017 to January 8 2018 243 With over 250 works such as thumbnail paintings concept artworks and commercial illustrations the exhibit reflected Eyvind Earle s biography and his work at the Walt Disney Studios including his contribution to Sleeping Beauty 244 An exhibition catalog was published by Weldon Owen on August 8 2017 245 See also Edit nbsp Disney portal nbsp Film portal nbsp United States portal nbsp 1950s portal nbsp Cartoon portal1959 in film List of American films of 1959 List of animated feature films of the 1950s List of Walt Disney Pictures films List of Disney theatrical animated feature films List of Disney animated films based on fairy tales Medieval 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