![]() ![]() Aurora herself received negative reviews from both film and feminist critics for her passivity and similarities to Snow White, and would remain Disney's last princess until The Little Mermaid's Ariel debuted 30 years later in 1989. When Sleeping Beauty was first released in 1959, the film was both a critical and commercial failure, discouraging the studio from adapting fairy tales into animated films for three decades. With only 18 lines of dialogue and equally few minutes of screen time, the character speaks less than any speaking main character in a feature-length Disney animated film. Animated by Marc Davis, Aurora's slender physique was inspired by actress Audrey Hepburn. In order to accommodate the film's unprecedentedly detailed backgrounds, Aurora's refined design demanded more effort than had ever been spent on an animated character before, with the animators drawing inspiration from Art Nouveau. However, Costa's southern accent nearly cost her the role until she proved that she could sustain a British accent for the duration of the film. For several years, Walt Disney had struggled to find a suitable actress to voice the princess and nearly abandoned the film entirely until Costa was discovered by composer Walter Schumann. Determined to prevent this, three good fairies raise Aurora as a peasant in order to protect her, patiently awaiting her sixteenth birthday - the day the spell can only be broken by a kiss from her true love, Prince Phillip.Īurora is based on the princess in Charles Perrault's fairy tale " Sleeping Beauty", as well as the heroine who appears in the Brothers Grimm's retelling of the story, " Little Briar Rose". Merryweather, one of the three good fairies, weakened the curse so Aurora would only sleep. An evil fairy named Maleficent seeks revenge for not being invited to Aurora's christening and curses the newborn princess, foretelling that she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle and die before sunset on her sixteenth birthday. ![]() Originally voiced by singer Mary Costa, Aurora is the only child of King Stefan and Queen Leah. ![]() Princess Aurora, also known as Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose, is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Productions' 16th animated feature film Sleeping Beauty (1959). ![]()
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