Title from title screen. Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Taylor Holmes, Bill Thompson. Based on the story "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Adapted from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Ballet. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959 ; 2008 DVD release. Special features include: music video ; virtual tour of the Grand Canyon (released in 1959) ; The Peter Tchaikovsky story ; theatrical trailer for Sleeping Beauty.
Summary:
Princess Aurora is born to King Stefan & his wife. At a ceremony for her, fairies - Flora, Fauna and Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But the evil sorceress, Maleficent, shows up and places a curse on the princess - where Aurora will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow princess Aurora to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love. The fairies take Aurora to their cottage and raise her as their own child. On her 16th birthday, Aurora meets Prince Phillip and the two fall in love. Maleficent kidnaps the Prince and she tricks Aurora into touching a spinning wheel. Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the good fairies head to Maleficent's castle and spring the Prince loose. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent when she turns herself into a fire-breathing dragon. Now the Prince has to be strong enough to withstand the powers of the evil Maleficent.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)303646629
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)
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