Sleeping Beauty
movie
Sleeping Beauty movie is produced by Walt Disney in 1959 based on the fairy tale "La Belle au bois dormant" by Charles Perrault, with additional story work by Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, and Milt Banta. Is the sixteenth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the last fairy tale produced by Walt Disney. Sleeping Beauty movie's musical score and songs, featuring the work of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, are arrangements or adaptations of numbers from the 1890 Sleeping Beauty ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Sleeping Beauty movie was the first animated feature to be photographed in the Technirama widescreen process and the last Disney feature to have cels inked by hand. Sleeping Beauty movie was presented in Super Technirama 70 and 6-channel stereophonic sound in first-run engagements.
Princess Aurora's long, thin, willowy body shape was inspired by that of Audrey Hepburn.
Sleeping Beauty movie story:
14th century, the newborn Princess Aurora
is named after the Roman goddess of the dawn because she fills the lives of her mother and father, King Stefan and Queen Leah, with sunshine. While still an infant, she is betrothed to the also-young Prince Phillip, son of King Hubert. At her christening, the Three Good Fairies Flora the red fairy, Fauna the green fairy and Merryweather the blue fairy arrive to bless her. Flora gives her the gift of beauty while Fauna gives her the gift of song. Before Merryweather can give her
blessing, the Dark Fairy Maleficent appears, expressing disappointment in not being invited to Aurora's christening ceremony and curses the princess to die when she touches a spinning wheel's spindle before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. Maleficent leaves, and Merryweather is able to use her blessing to weaken the curse so that instead of death, Aurora, will fall into a deep sleep until she is awakened by true love's kiss. Though King Stefan decrees all spinning wheels in the 
kingdom burned, the Three Good Fairies know Maleficent's curse cannot be stopped that easily and devise a plan to protect
her. With the king and queen's consent, they disguise themselves as peasant women and sneak Aurora away with them to a woodland cottage until her sixteen birthday lapses, passing themselves off as her aunts and swearing off magic to conceal themselves. Years later, Aurora, renamed Briar-Rose, had grown into a gorgeous young woman with the blessings that Flora and
Fauna bestowed to her. Sweet and gentle, she dreams of falling in love one day. By that time, Maleficent is vexed at her
minions' incompetence in locating the princess and sends her raven familiar, Diablo, to look for Aurora. On the day of her sixteenth birthday, the fairies attempt to make Aurora a gown and a cake. When their attempts end in disaster they decide to
use their wands, resulting in a magical fight between Flora and Merryweather over the color of the gown-Flora insisting that 
it be pink and Merryweather insisting that it be blue-that catches Diablo's attention. Meanwhile, Aurora gathers berries while singing to her animal friends, attracting the attention of Prince Phillip, now a handsome young man, as he is out
riding his horse in the woods. When they meet, they instantly fall in love, Phillip believing her to be a peasant girl. Realizing that she has to return home, Aurora flees from Phillip without ever learning his name. Despite promising to meet 
him again, the fairies, not knowing that the man Aurora met is the prince, reveal the truth of her birth to her and take her
to her parents and her betrothed's family insisting that she never see him again, much to her dismay. Meanwhile, Phillip returns home telling his father of a peasant girl he met and wishes to marry in spite of his prearranged marriage to Princess
Aurora. In the castle, Maleficent uses her magic to lure Aurora away from her boudoir and up to a tower, where a spinning
wheel awaits her. Fascinated by the wheel with Maleficent's will enforcing it, Aurora touches the spindle, pricking her 
finger and completing the curse. The good fairies place Aurora on a bed and place all in the kingdom in a deep ageless sleep until the spell is broken. While falling asleep, King Hubert tries to tell Stefan of his son being in love with a peasant
girl, which makes Flora realize that Prince Phillip is the man Aurora has fallen in love with, and they fly back to the
cottage for him. At that time, Prince Phillip arrives at the cottage, but is captured, bound and gagged by Maleficent's minions and taken to the dungeons of her lair, "The Forbidden Mountain", to prevent him from kissing Aurora until he is an
old man and she remains as young as the day she pricked her finger-as previewed in a magical vision which the gloating Maleficent torments him with. However, the fairies sneak into Maleficent's stronghold and free the prince. Armed with the magical Sword of Truth and The Shield of Virtue, Phillip and the fairies escape from the Forbidden Mountain whilst being
attacked by Maleficent's minions, which the fairies succeed in blocking. When Diablo tries to warn Maleficent, Merryweather chases him and eventually kills him by turning him into a stone statue, alerting Maleficent. The prince braves all obstacles Maleficent throws at him to reach the palace, including a large bush of thorns, before battling Maleficent herself when she turns herself into a gigantic fire-breathing dragon. After a long fight in which his shield is destroyed, Phillip throws the sword, blessed by the fairies' magic, into the dragon's heart, causing Maleficent to fall to her death from a cliff, leaving nothing but a dark stain and turning the sword black. Phillip climbs to Aurora's chamber, and removes the curse with a kiss. As the film ends, the prince and princess both happily learn that their betrothed and their beloved are one and the same. They arrive at the ballroom, where Aurora is happily reunited with her parents, and she and Prince Phillip dance a waltz. They do not notice that as they dance, Merryweather and Flora have resumed their disagreement over the color of her dress and continue to change it from blue to pink with their magic. As the book closes, Aurora's gown continues to change colors.
Sleeping Beauty movie characters:
Princess Aurora/Briar Rose, voiced by Mary Costa
Maleficent, voiced by Eleanor Audley
Flora the red fairy, voiced by Verna Felton
Fauna the green fairy, voiced by Barbara Jo Allen
Merryweather the blue fairy, voiced by Barbara Luddy
Prince Phillip, voiced by Bill Shirley
King Stefan, voiced by Taylor Holmes
King Hubert, voiced by Bill Thompson
The Narrator, voiced by Marvin Miller
Maleficent's Goons, voiced by Candy Candido, Pinto Colvig, and Bob Amsberry
The Owl, voiced by Dallas McKennon
Written by: Tom Adair and George Bruns
Sung by: Chorus
One gift, beauty rare,
Gold of sunshine in her hair,
Lips that shame the red, red rose,
She'll walk in springtime wherever she goes!
One gift, the gift of song,
Melody your whole life long!
The nightingale her troubadour,
Bringing his sweet serenade to her door.
Written by: Winston Hiber, Ted Sears and George Bruns
Sung by: Briar Rose (Mary Costa)
I wonder, I wonder,
I wonder why each little bird has a someone
To sing to, sweet things to,
A gay little love melody
I wonder, I wonder,
I wonder if my heart keeps singing,
Will my song go winging
To someone, who'll find me
And bring back a love song to me.
Written by: Sammy Fain and Jack Lawrence
Sung by: Briar Rose (Mary Costa), Prince Phillip (Bill Shirley) and Chorus
I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, the gleam in your eyes is so familiar a-gleam
Yet I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you do,
You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream
But if I know you, I know what you do,
You love me at once,
The way you did once upon a dream
I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, the gleam in your eyes is so familiar a-gleam
And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you do,
You love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream.
Written by: George Bruns and Tom Adair
Sung by: Chorus
Sleeping Beauty fair,
Gold of sunshine in your hair,
Lips that shame the red, red rose,
Dreaming of true love in slumber repose
One day he will come,
Riding over the dawn,
When you awaken to love's first kiss,
Till then, Sleeping Beauty, sleep on
One day you'll awaken to love's first kiss,
Till then, Sleeping Beauty, sleep on.
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| Thus, today would they announce that Phillip, Hubert's son and heir, to Stefan's child would be betrothed. And so to her his gift he brought and looked unknowing on his future bride. Their most honored and exalted excellencies, the Three Good Fairies! Mistress Flora, Mistress Fauna and Mistress Merryweather!
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| It's incredible! Sixteen years, and not a trace of her. She couldn't have vanished into thin air! Are you sure you searched everywhere?
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| I fooled them. I have met someone. Who? Who? Who? Oh, a prince. Well, he's tall and handsome and so romantic. Oh, we walk together and talk together; and just before we say good-bye, he takes me in his arms and then I wake up. Yes, it's only in my dreams.
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| A stranger? But don't you remember? We've met before. We have? Why, of course. You said so yourself. Once upon a dream. I know you I walked with you once upon a dream I know you The gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam And I know it's true That visions are seldom all they seem But if I know you I know what you'll do You'll love me at once The way you did Once upon a dream.
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| Oh, Phillip! Hurry, boy, hurry! Change into something suitable. Can't meet your future bride looking like that. But I have met her, Father. You have? Where? Once upon a dream. Oh, Phillip! Stop it! Stop that! Phillip! Put me down! Now, what's all this dream nonsense? It wasn't a dream, Father. I really did meet her. Oh, the Princess Aurora? Good heavens, we must tell Stefan. Why, this is the most amazing. I didn't say it was Aurora.
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| Maleficent! Rose! Oh, why did we leave her alone? No! Rose! Here. Rose, where are you? Don't touch anything! Anything! Anything! Touch the spindle. Touch it, I say. You poor, simple fools, thinking you could defeat me. Me, the mistress of all evil!
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| Oh, come now, Prince Phillip. Why so melancholy? You, the destined hero of a charming fairy tale come true. Behold, King Stefan's castle. And in yonder topmost tower, dreaming of her true love, the Princess Aurora. But see the gracious whim of fate. Why, 'tis the selfsame peasant maid who won the heart of our noble prince but yesterday. She is indeed most wondrous fair, gold of sunshine in her hair, lips that shame the red, red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by. But a hundred years to a steadfast heart are but a day.
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| Why, Fauna, what's the matter, dear? Oh, I just love happy endings. Yes, I do too. Blue! Pink. I know you I walked with you once upon a dream Blue.
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