She has a kind, gentle, sweet, graceful and charming attitude, and her singing voice is so good that it entertains even animals.Īurora is generally depicted wearing her signature blue or pink ball gown with a petal overskirt and long triangular sleeves, along with blue or pink slippers, a gold choker, and a gold tiara.
CharacteristicsĪurora, at the age 15–16 years old, has long blonde hair "of sunshine gold" with curls at the end, violet eyes, lips naturally "red as the rose", and fair complexion. The singer started having problems with the voice of the character: since Mary Costa was from the South, she spoke with a Southern accent, but Aurora was not from the American South, so Costa had to resist slipping into her natural accent while recording. Once, Mary Costa (voice of Aurora) attended a party with her future husband, director Frank Tashlin, where she happened to connect with the right people, and soon found herself auditioning for the part of Princess Aurora, for which Walt Disney had been trying to find the right voice for three years. This was the first work Alice did in the Disney studio, during which she became the wife of Marc Davis (1956). Ĭostume design for the Aurora engaged Alice Davis, who was the wife of animator Marc Davis (until his death in 2000 ). understood the necessity for this approach and in retrospect acknowledged that Disney had handled things with considerable subtlety. The animators did not like this way of working, feeling it detracted from their ability to create character. Īccording to Christopher Finch, author of The Art of Walt Disney:ĭisney insisted that all scenes involving human characters should be shot first in live-action to determine that they would work before the expensive business of animation was permitted to start. Actress Helene Stanley performed the live-action reference for Princess Aurora. Īs done with other Disney films, Walt Disney hired an actress to perform live-action scenes as a reference for the animation process. Aurora's lead animator, Marc Davis, who previously animated Cinderella, working with sketches by Oreb, finished the appearance and clothing of the heroine, so they would blend with the angular forms of the background images. The original character design of Aurora was done by Tom Oreb, who modeled the princess after the elegant, slender features of actress Audrey Hepburn. 4.3 Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams.She later appeared as a central character in the 2014 live-action film Maleficent, portrayed by Elle Fanning. The third remaining good fairy then altered the curse so that when she pricked her finger, she would only fall into a deep slumber and be awakened by the kiss of Prince Phillip, to whom she was betrothed at birth. However, she is also cursed by the wicked and jealous fairy Maleficent, who foretold that on her sixteenth birthday, she would prick her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle and die. At her christening, three good fairies are invited to bless her with gifts of beauty and song. Prince Phillip's unnamed mother (mother-in-law, deceased)Īurora (alias Briar Rose or Sleeping Beauty) fictional character and the title character of Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty.Ĭreated by Walt Disney and animated by Marc Davis, Aurora is the princess of a fictionalized English kingdom set in the 14th century and King Stefan's and Queen Leah's only daughter. Princess Audrey (daughter in Descendants only) King Henry (maternal grandfather, deceased in Maleficent only)įlora, Fauna, Merryweather and Maleficent ( godmothers) Queen of the human and fairy realms (in Maleficent only) Janet McTeer (elderly narrator) ( Maleficent) Kate Higgins (singing and speaking currently) Jennifer Hale (speaking House of Mouse, Kingdom Hearts, merchandise, games) (2001-2005, 2007-2012)
Glen Keane (supervising animator currently)Įrin Torpey (speaking sequels, some merchandise)