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*** Disney's Sleeping Beauty is based on the Charles Perraut version of the story ***
*** The artistic look was conceived by artist Edyvind Earle ***
*** The budget of Sleeping Beauty exceeded $6 million, and in today's figures, it is still
the most lavish animated feature to date ***
*** Although Sleeping Beauty was not originally a box office hit, it proved popular upon it's reissues
in 1970, 1979, 1986 and on video 1986.***
*** The supervising director for Sleeping Beauty was Clyde Geronimi. The animators
were Marc Davis, Hal Ambro, Hal King, Harvey, Toombs, Ken O'Brien, Iwao Takamoto and John
Kennedy ***
*** Sleeping Beauty is in Technirama 70 and lasts for 75 mins.
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*** George Bruns composed the orchestral score was adapted from teh Tchaikovsky Ballet
and was nominated for an Academy Award, it also included songs written by Sammy Fraun, Jack
Laurence, Tom Adair, Winston Hibler, Erdman Penner and Ted Sears ***
*** The songs in Sleeping Beauty are "I Wonder"and "Once Upon A Dream"
*** The Characters in Sleeping Beauty are Princess Aurora/Briar Rose (Mary Costa, with Helene
Stanley the live action model), Prince Philip (Bill Shirley), King Stefan (Taylor Holmes), King
Hubert (Bill Thompson), Maleficent (Eleanor Audley), Flora (Verna Telton), Fauna (Barbara Jo Allen),
Merryweather (Barbara Luddy), Samson, Raven, Minstrel Page ***
To visit the Sleeping Beauty gallery, click here.
*** Sleeping Beauty was made in 1959 ***
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