Sleeping Beauty
Year: 1959
Running Time: 75 minutes
Main Characters: Princess Aurora/Briar Rose, Prince Philip, Maleficent, Flora, Fauna, Merryweather
Starring: Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Jo Allen, Barbara Luddy, Bill Shirley
Directed: Clyde Geronimi
Based on: La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Little Briar Rose by The Brothers Grimm
Written By: Erdman Penner (adaptation), Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, Milt Banta
Animators: Les Clark, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman
Composer: George Bruns, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Budget: $6 million
Other Facts: This was the last Disney film adapted from a fairy tale for 30 years because of its disappointing box office gross and mixed reception. The next film to be adapted would be The Little Mermaid.
