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BuzzFeed readers voted Aurora their sixth favorite Disney Princess, who garnered 7% of the 9,554 votes. [81] Time reported that Aurora was the seventh best-selling Disney Princess on eBay in 2014, having sold $215,856 in merchandise that year. [82] However, Seventeen argues that Aurora is one of Disney's most famous princess[es]". [21]
Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution.Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, the film follows Princess Aurora, who was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday.
The franchise's titular protagonist, Aurora, is part of the characters in the Disney Princess franchise. [12] The main antagonist of the franchise, Maleficent, is included as a regular character of the Disney Villains franchise, [13] [14] [15] while her sidekick raven Diablo also has minor recurring appearances in said franchise. [16] [17]
"Once Upon a Dream" serves as the film's main theme, and as the love theme of Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip. It is performed in the film by a chorus as an overture and third-reprise finale, as well by Mary Costa and Bill Shirley, who voiced the roles of Aurora and Phillip, respectively. [2] [3] [4]
From left to right: the forest animals, the Goons, Maleficent, Diablo, Prince Phillip, Princess Aurora, Flora, Queen Leah, Fauna, Merryweather, King Stefan, King Hubert, Samson, and the lackey. The following are fictional characters in Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty and related media.
As Merryweather is about to give Aurora the gift of happiness, [1] Maleficent makes her appearance and curses the princess to die when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle before sunset on her sixteenth birthday. Merryweather softens the curse so that instead of dying, Aurora will only sleep until she is awakened by true love's kiss.
Her most notable film credit is providing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty. She is the last surviving voice actress of the three Disney Princesses created in Walt Disney's lifetime and was named a Disney Legend in 1999. [1] [2] [3] She is a recipient of the 2020 National Medal of Arts. [4]
She is the fourth Disney Princess, the first Disney Princess to be developed during the Disney Renaissance, and the first Disney Princess since Aurora. The character is based on the title character of Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" but was developed into a different personality for the 1989 animated film adaptation.