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Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Sleeping Beauty
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Original theatrical poster
Directed by Supervising Director
Clyde Geronimi
Sequence Directors
Les Clark
Eric Larson
Wolfgang Reitherman
Produced by Walt Disney
Written by Erdman Penner
Story by
Based on La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault
The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Little Briar Rose by The Brothers Grimm
Starring
Narrated by Marvin Miller
Music by George Bruns (score)
Jack Lawrence (score)
Tom Adair (songs)
Edited by Robert M. Brewer, Jr.
Donald Halliday
Production
company
Distributed by Buena Vista Distribution
Release date
  • January 29, 1959 (1959-01-29)
Running time
75 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $6 million
Box office $51.6 million

Sleeping Beauty is an American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault and Little Briar Rose by The Brothers Grimm. The 16th Disney animated feature film, it was released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution. This was the last Disney adaptation of a fairy tale for some years because of its initial mixed critical reception and underperformance at the box office; the studio did not return to the genre until 30 years later, after Walt Disney died in 1966, with the release of The Little Mermaid (1989).

It features the voices of Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Bill Shirley, Taylor Holmes, and Bill Thompson.

The film was directed by Les Clark, Eric Larson, and Wolfgang Reitherman, under the supervision of Clyde Geronimi, with additional story work by Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, and Milt Banta. The film's musical score and songs, featuring the work of the Graunke Symphony Orchestra under the direction of George Bruns, are arrangements or adaptations of numbers from the 1890 Sleeping Beauty ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Along with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky's music composition was also popular in the film. However, unlike the previous feature-films, this was the first Disney feature-film that did not have the same background animation material, but instead with new background animation material.


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