She was also one of the original Chrysler Girls.

Kennedy at the request of Jackie Kennedy after Jackie heard her sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at the Academy Awards. She sang at a memorial service for John F. Mary Costa, the voice of Sleeping Beauty, is a professional opera singer and has performed in more than 40 operatic roles on stage. In Disney's Sleeping Beauty, this was truncated to beauty and song. (Other versions include up to 13, making the evil fairy the unlucky addition.) The gifts the seven fairies bestowed in Perrault's tale were beauty, wit, grace, dance, song, and music. Instead of three quirky fairies, the original version included seven, as in Perrault's story. They had only been married for 12 years at the time Sleeping Beauty was released, and she had been Queen for just seven.ģ. Prince Phillip is said to have been named after another royal that Americans would have been familiar with during that time period: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. Disney split the difference and used both names.Ģ. Perrault called his heroine Aurora, while the Grimms' 'Little Briar Rose' referred to their princess as, well, Briar Rose.

Versions of Sleeping Beauty have been published by both Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. I’m betting there’s more fanfare when Maleficent comes out later this year, but until then, we’ll do our best to pick up the slack with a few facts you probably didn’t know about this ‘50s fairy tale.ġ. Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty quietly turns 55 this year.

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