Star Cast of Sleeping Beauty Movie
Leading Cast:
- Mary Costa as Aurora
- Bill Shirley as Prince Phillip
- Eleanor Audley as Maleficent
- Verna Felton as Flora
- Barbara Jo Allen as Fauna
- Barbara Luddy as Merryweather
Supporting Cast:
- Taylor Holmes as King Stefan
- Bill Thompson as King Hubert
- Dallas McKennon as The Owl of the woods
- Verna Felton as Queen Leah
Sleeping Beauty – Full Cast and Characters
Based on Charles Perrault’s 1697 tale “Sleeping Beauty”, Walt Disney’s American animated musical fantasy picture Sleeping Beauty was released in 1959 on January 29. The 16th Disney animated feature film, by Buena Vista Distribution, was a fantastic movie and was loved by people worldwide. Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Bill Shirley, Taylor Holmes, and Bill Thompson all lend their voices to the film. In this article, let’s get to know more about the full cast of the Sleeping Beauty movie in detail.
The film revolves around the characters based on Sleeping Beauty or a cursed princess. The movie starts when the wicked witch Maleficent (Eleanor Audley), driven by jealousy, curses Princess Aurora (Mary Costa) to die on her sixteenth birthday. Verna Felton, Barbara Jo Allen, and Barbara Luddy, Aurora’s guardian fairies, ensure that she only ever enters a profound sleep that can be broken by a kiss from her fiancé, Prince Phillip (Bill Shirley). Phillip is taken hostage and imprisoned by Maleficent in order to stop him from saving Aurora. The only remaining chance for Phillip to be set free and awaken Aurora is through the good fairies.