Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution and originally released to theaters on January 29, 1959. The sixteenth animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon, it was the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale (after his death, the studio returned to the genre with The Little Mermaid), as well as the last cel animated feature from Disney to be inked by hand before the xerography process took over. Sleeping Beauty is also the first animated feature to be shot in Super Technirama 70, one of many large-format widescreen processes (only one more animated film, The Black Cauldron, has been shot in Super Technirama 70). The film spent nearly the entire decade of the 1950s in production: the story work began in 1951, voices were recorded in 1952, animation production took from 1953 until 1958, and the stereophonic musical score was recorded in 1957.
It was originally a failure and did not make up the huge cost of the film. Along with the mixed critical reception, it was also noted to be the film that made Walt Disney lose interest in the animation medium. However, the subsequent re-releases proved massively successful, and critics and audiences have since hailed it as an animated classic.
But I really liked it and maybe didn't make allot of money but the story was great and beautiful.
her hair and dress was lovely.

     

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Cast

• Mary Costa as Aurora
• Bill Shirley as Prince Phillip
• Eleanor Audley as Maleficent
• Taylor Holmes as King Stefan
• Verna Felton as Flora
• Barbara Jo Allen as Fauna
• Barbara Luddy as Merryweather
• Bill Thompson as King Hubert
• Dallas McKennon as Owl/Diablo
• Bob Amsberry as Maleficent's Goon #1
• Candy Candido as Maleficent's Goon #2
• Pinto Colvig as Maleficent's Goon #3
• Marvin Miller as Narrator

The Queen has a few lines, but it is unclear who voices her.