Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

1959

You gotta know this plot! A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep that can only be awakened by true love's first kiss. Enter that fortunate prince! This animated Disney classic (from the late 1950s) makes wondrous use of Tchaikovsky's titular ballet score.

Now the magic moment! Full-length feature fantasy - Beautiful beyond belief

JBscale
85
Excellent

Film Detail

Genre
Animation - Family
Length
1 hr. 15 mins.
US Theatrical Release
January 29, 1959
US Box Office
$9,464,608 (#4484 of 7423)
Global Office
$1,420,935 (#3908 of 4357)
Rating
G
General Audiences
All Ages Admitted

Collection Detail

Edition
3-Disc Platinum Edition & Digital
Resolution | Digital Platform
Aspect Ratio
WS 2.55:1
Audio
English: DD 5.1
English: DTS-HD Master 7.1
Studio
Disney/Buena Vista
Released
October 7, 2008
Acquired Date
May 20, 2011
Times Seen
1 Time
Last Watched
February 17, 2013

Actors

Mary Costa
Mary Costa
Bill Shirley
Bill Shirley
Eleanor Audley
Eleanor Audley
Verna Felton
Verna Felton
Barbara Luddy
Barbara Luddy
Barbara Jo Allen
Barbara Jo Allen
Taylor Holmes
Taylor Holmes
Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson

Directors

Clyde Geronimi
Clyde Geronimi

Producers

Walt Disney
Walt Disney

Writers

Joe Rinaldi
Joe Rinaldi
Winston Hibler
Winston Hibler
Bill Peet
Bill Peet
Ted Sears
Ted Sears
Ralph Wright
Ralph Wright
Milt Banta
Milt Banta

Awards & Accolades

  • 1958 Oscar : Short Subject (Live Action) - "Grand Canyon"

Special Features

Commentaries
  • John Lasseter
Documentaries
  • Picture Perfect: The Making of Sleeping Beauty - An exciting and inspiring behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the final fairy tale to be produced by Walt Disney himself.
Featurettes
  • Four Artists Paint One Tree - This featurette looks at one tree interpreted by four distinguished Disney artists, including Eyvind Earle, the well respected American painter who served as stylist for Sleeping Beauty.
Other
  • Alternate Opening - Recently discovered storyboards from 1952 reveal that the original opening of Sleeping Beauty was planned as a big musical production number. Using all of the existing color storyboard art, this alternate opening is recreated with a new demo recording of the song - “Holiday.”
  • Animated Short: "Grand Canyon" - This Academy Award winning short accompanied Sleeping Beauty in its release in theatres.
  • Cine-Explore
  • Deleted Songs - Four new musical numbers that were not used in the final film are presented using original storyboard art and demo recordings.
  • Original Disneyland Sleeping Beauty Walk-Through Attraction With Walt Disney Imagineering - A fascinating fully-immersive 3-D experience recreating the original Sleeping Beauty Castle Walk-Through that Walt supervised over 50 years ago. Viewers can choose to tour the attraction in “Auto Mode,” where you get to experience it the way it was originally intended, or choose to view the experience with “Commentary” by Disney’s famed “Imagineers” and take a look behind the magic of these detailed dioramas.
  • The Peter Tchaikovsky Story - An episode of Walt Disney’s legendary TV series in which Walt previews the Studio’s upcoming release of Sleeping Beauty which uses the Tchaikovsky score as the source of its music. Also included is a dramatic re-enactment of how Tchaikovsky came to write his score for the ballet.
  • Audio Commentary
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Featurettes

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User Reviews

Ratings

JB Users
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RT Fresh
90%
Tomatometer
48 votes
RT Fresh Certified
80%
Popcornmeter
11,500 votes
METASCORE
85
12 votes
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
164,794 votes