Sleeping Beauty (1959)
First screened in the mid-1980s / Most recently screened in June 2025
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, et al. Voice Cast: Mary Costa, Verna Felton, Barbara Jo Allen, Barbara Luddy, Eleanor Audley, Bill Shirley, Taylor Holmes, Bill Thompson. Screenplay: Erdman Penner (based on the fairy tale as narrated by Charles Perrault).

   
Photo © 1959 Walt Disney Pictures
In Brief: The clear visual pinnacle of midcentury Disney is also pristinely told, comically sweet, sad, scary, and tuneful.

VOR: ⑤  No Disney movie had looked so ravishing since Pinocchio or Bambi and wouldn't again for decades. Respects its audience. Maleficent is genius.

Grade: A–

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