She’s in love!

Thus, on this great and joyous day… did all the kingdom celebrate the long-awaited royal birth. And good King Stefan and his queen made welcome their lifelong friend. Their Royal Highnesses, King Hubert and Prince Phillip!

Disney Animation ➡ Live-Action: Sleeping Beauty (1959) | Maleficent (2014)

Sleeping Beauty ...

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 “A forest of thorns shall be his tomb! Borne through the skies on a fog of doom! Now go with the curse, and serve me well! ‘Round Stefan’s castle, CAST MY SPELL!”

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

“There is a very funny thing that happened in Glendale High School about my first performance on stage. That was a catastrophe in one way, and in another way, it was a triumph because I had such a southern accent. When they auditioned me to sing, there is no accent in the singing voice, so they immediately gave me the lead in the opera The Prince of Pilsen. And then they asked me to read, and it was so different from everybody else that they worked with me for a month. The operetta opened. My mother and father were sitting in the audience and my father said to my mother: ‘When does Mary come on?’ and she said: ‘Would you please hush. She’s be on for ten minutes!’ He didn’t recognize me at all. They just had really done a remake of me! He thought I was good, but he was disappointed because he didn’t think I was representing myself and he told me: ‘You know, I think you have talent. And of course, I’m your Daddy. I want you to be just the best that you can be. But I don’t want you to ever do anything before you’re comfortable with it and then, when you are comfortable with it, I want you to make it your own, so that you have your own style of doing everything. God gives everybody something unique. You have been given a gift and I want you to present it with you own thought pattern and all of your own personality.’ Naturally, I was disappointed despite the fact that I got an A+, but it was great, great advice, because I got the same advice later on from Walt Disney.”

Mary Costa, the original singing and speaking voice of Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, aged 88. Recalling her last memory with Walt: “Everybody said he is a perfectionist. I think he had a ministry of excellence. He was open to suggestions, he wanted a hundred percent all the time. But he was working with brilliant minds. He was working with animators that were absolutely so sensitive and dedicated to their work, and I feel he was a person who was an inspiration to them. He drove them, he drove me- I liked it. He would say, ‘You know, we can do better than that, and we’re going to try that line again because we want a different attitude and mood.’ I really wanted to please him. The only thing I could not do with him was call him Walt. He wanted everyone to call him Walt. And I would call him Mr. Disney. And he would say ‘Miss Costa’ and I said, ‘Please, you can call me Mary!’ ‘Oh, no, no, no- not if you don’t call me Walt!’ So after our little incident with a bird doesn’t sing because it’s happy, it’s happy because it sings, he called me ‘Happy Bird’ most of the time just to tease me. The last time I saw him, actually, I saw him across the Disney lot. And he waved to me, saying, ‘Hello, Mary!’ And I said, ‘Hello, Walt!’ And he got so hysterical, not hysterical, but laughing so much that I remember that was the last moment I saw him. It was just very touching to think about.”

Princess Aurora in her 2013 redesign on Sofia the First. She reassures the titular character: “I could always count on my animal friends to help me through tough times, and so can you.”

Mary Costa, the original singing and speaking voice of the Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, had been a famous opera singer throughout the fifties until the later eighties, when she retired to take care of her ailing mother, Hazel. Of opera, she said: “Opera, to me, is the highest form of show business, but it is show business and nothing else. We’re out here to entertain. I’m sure Ella Fitzgerald is just as serious about her work as I am about mine.” Reflecting on her formative years: “I went from Knoxville, Tennesse to Glendale, California when I was sixteen. I had a very hard time in Glendale high school because I was cast as the princess in the Operetta and I had a thick, southern accent. They tried to redo me and they had me shape my vowels and do all this and, of course, I was very discouraged. I thought I could never be an actress. I thought maybe I should try to do something else, even though all I wanted to do was sing.”

In June 1959, it was officially confirmed that Helene Stanley would be one of two live models for Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. “The off-screen voice is spoken and sung by Mary Costa. Film personality Helene Stanley spent over two years as a model for the artists."