Sleeping Beauty (1959) | |
| Director(s) | Clyde Geronimi |
| Producer(s) | |
| Top Genres | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Film Adaptation, Musical, Romance |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Disney |
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Sleeping Beauty Overview:
Sleeping Beauty (1959) was a Animation - Family Film directed by Clyde Geronimi .
Academy Awards 1959 --- Ceremony Number 32 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Music - Scoring | George Bruns | Nominated |
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Sleeping Beauty (1959, Clyde Geronimi)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 13, 2017 From The Stop ButtonSeven credited writers on Sleeping Beauty and none of them could figure out any dialogue to give the prince. Though, notwithstanding some cute banter between the three fairies, there?s not much good dialogue in Sleeping Beauty anyway. Villain Maleficent doesn?t even get any. Eleanor Audley?s great i... Read full article
The Visual Splendor of Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty
By Rick29 on Apr 17, 2017 From Classic Film & TV CafeWhen originally released in 1959, Sleeping Beauty was a major critical and financial disappointment for Walt Disney. The film cost a then-hefty $6 million and failed to break even on its original release in the U.S. Critics were unkind, too, calling it ponderous and lacking in memorable characters. ... Read full article
The Visual Splendor of Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty
By Rick29 on Apr 17, 2017 From Classic Film & TV CafeWhen originally released in 1959, Sleeping Beauty was a major critical and financial disappointment for Walt Disney. The film cost a then-hefty $6 million and failed to break even on its original release in the U.S. Critics were unkind, too, calling it ponderous and lacking in memorable characters. ... Read full article
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
By Beatrice on Nov 26, 2016 From Flickers in TimeSleeping Beauty Directed by Clyde Geronimi Written by Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler et al from the story by Charles Perrault 1959/USA Walt Disney Productions Repeat viewing/Netflix rental Chorus: [singing] For true love conquers all! This might have been the first Disney cartoon I sa... Read full article
Sleeping Beauty
By Alyson on Jun 17, 2016 From The Best Picture ProjectIn 1959, after nearly ten years in production and Disneyland?s castle named in its honor, Disney?s Sleeping Beauty was finally released. ?It was the first film animated in 70mm and a true feat of artistic achievement. ?To this day, many consider it to be the visual high point of animation in the gol... Read full article
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Quotes from
Chorus: [singing] For true love conquers all!
Flora: Good gracious! Who left the mop running?
Merryweather: Stop, mop!
Flora: Thou sword of truth, fly swift and sure, that evil die and good endure!
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Several story points for this film came from discarded ideas from Walt Disney's previous fairy tale involving another sleeping heroine: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They include Maleficent's capture of the Prince and the Prince's daring escape from her castle. Disney discarded these ideas from Snow White because he believed that his artists were not able to draw a human male believably enough.
To help promote the film, the imagineers working on the new Disneyland project modeled the castle on the one in the film.
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