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Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Director(s) Clyde Geronimi
Producer(s)

No producer listed for this movie
Top Genres Animation, Family, Fantasy, Film Adaptation, Musical, Romance
Top Topics Book-Based, Disney
More Films Directed by Clyde Geronimi More Films from 1959 More Films from the 1950s Top Classic Movies of the 1950s Top Book-Based Films

Sleeping Beauty Overview:

Sleeping Beauty (1959) was a Animation - Family Film directed by Clyde Geronimi .

Academy Awards 1959 --- Ceremony Number 32 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - ScoringGeorge BrunsNominated
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Sleeping Beauty BlogHub Articles:

Sleeping Beauty (1959, Clyde Geronimi)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 13, 2017 From The Stop Button

Seven 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 g... Read full article

The Visual Splendor of Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty

By Rick29 on Apr 17, 2017 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

When 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 Cafe

When 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 Time

Sleeping 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 Project

In 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 t... Read full article

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Sleeping Beauty Quotes:

Merryweather: Sweet princess, if through this wicked witch's trick, a spindle should your finger prick... a ray of hope there still may be in this, the gift I give to thee. Not in death, but just in sleep, the fateful prophecy you'll keep. And from this slumber you shall wake, when true love's kiss, the spell shall break.
Chorus: [singing] For true love conquers all!
Fauna: [nervously] But we can't... we can't go there.
Flora: Yes we can, and we must!
Fauna: Now, yeast, one tsp. Tsp?
Merryweather: One teaspoon.
Fauna: One teaspoon, of course!
Flora: Good gracious! Who left the mop running?
Merryweather: Stop, mop!
Merryweather: [referring to the dress] It's pink!
Flora: Oh, lovely shade, isn't it?
Merryweather: But I wanted it blue.
Flora: Now, dear, we decided pink was her color!
Merryweather: YOU decided!
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Sleeping Beauty Facts
Walt Disney had toyed with the idea of his royal couple dancing in the clouds as a finale for both Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella. The concept finally got used in Sleeping Beauty. However, the idea was used in the Bongo segment in Fun & Fancy Free.
Second only to Dumbo (who didn't speak at all), this Disney title character has very few lines of actual dialogue throughout the entire film, which is actually about the three fairies who protect her, not about the Sleeping Beauty herself. Rose/Aurora is only featured in the film in very few scenes and hardly says anything. Her first line is spoken 19 minutes into the film, and her last is delivered after she learns of her betrothal 39 minutes into the film. However, she does sing two songs during this time frame.
Famed Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones worked on the film briefly when Termite Terrace closed temporarily during the late 1950s. He found the atmosphere at Walt Disney Productions oppressive because everything anyone did there had to be approved by Walt Disney before, during, and after the process of production. He was more than happy when Warner's animation department reopened, where he stayed until it closed again in 1964.
Madge Blake and Spring Byington were among the actresses who did some live action doubling as the fairy godmothers for the help of the animators. The voice artistes were not chosen because they weren't pudgy enough!
The Disneyland castle was named for this film, even though the park opened four years prior to the film's release.
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