Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)

Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault and Little Briar Rose by The Brothers Grimm. The 16th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, it was released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution. This was the last Disney adaptation of a fairy tale for some years because of its initial mixed critical reception and underperformance at the box office the studio did not return to the genre untilyears later, after Walt Disney died, with the release of The Little Mermaid 1989. However, the film is now hailed as one of the greatest animated films of all time.citation needed

After many childless years, King Stefan and Queen Leah happily welcome the birth of their daughter, Princess Aurora. They proclaim a holiday for their subjects to pay homage to the princess and celebrate her birth. At the gathering for her christening she is betrothed to Prince Phillip, the young son of King Hubert, Stefans friend, so that their kingdoms will always be united.Among the guests are three good fairies Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, who have come to bless the child with gifts. Flora and Fauna give their blessings beauty and song, respectively before the wicked witch named Maleficent appears. Angered upon not being invited to the christening, Maleficent curses the princess, proclaiming that before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of an enchanted spinning wheel and die. After the witch leaves, Merryweather uses her blessing to alter the curse so that instead of dying, Aurora will fall into a deep sleep from which she can only be awakened by true loves first kiss. King Stefan, still fearful for his daughters life, orders all spinning wheels in the kingdom to be burned. The fairies dont believe that will be enough to keep Aurora safe, and so they spirit baby Aurora away to a woodcutters cottage in the forest until the day of her sixteenth birthday. ........

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