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Waking Sleeping Beauty

72 %|Sep 5, 2009|Documentary

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.

Featured Crew

Don Hahn
Director
Patrick Pacheco
Screenplay
Howard Ashman
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Don Hahn
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Rob Minkoff
Himself / Pumbaa (voice)
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Glen Keane
Himself
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Mike Gabriel
Himself (voice)
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Roger Allers
Himself / Jenny Foxworth / Timon (voice)
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David Pruiksma
Himself (voice)
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Kirk Wise
Himself
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Mark Kimball
Himself (voice)
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Dick Cook
Himself (voice)
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Lisa Keene
Herself
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Elton John
Himself (archive footage)
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Lillian Disney
Herself (archive footage)
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Randy Cartwright
Himself (archive footage)
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Ron Miller
Himself (archive footage)
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Ruben Procopio
Himself (archive footage)
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Tim Burton
Himself (archive footage)
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Wolfgang Reitherman
Himself (archive footage)
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Jeanette Thomas
Herself (archive footage)
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Frank Thomas
Himself (archive footage)
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Marie E. Johnston
Herself (archive footage)
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Ollie Johnston
Himself (archive footage)
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Eric Larson
Himself (archive footage)
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Joe Ranft
Himself (archive footage)
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Les Clark
Himself (archive footage)
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Ron Hendren
Himself (archive footage)
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Frank Wells
Himself (archive footage)
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Don Griffith
Himself (archive footage)
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John Lasseter
Himself (archive footage)
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Walt Disney
Himself (archive footage)
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Roy O. Disney
Himself (archive footage)
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Connie Chung
Herself (archive footage)
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Diane Sawyer
Herself (archive footage)
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Ted Berman
Himself (archive footage)
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Phil Nibbelink
Himself (archive footage)
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Joe Hale
Himself (archive footage)
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Ed Gombert
Himself (archive footage)
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Shirley Temple
Herself (archive footage)
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Kathleen Gavin
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Maureen Donley
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Pat Riley
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Alex Trebek
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Steven Spielberg
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Richard Rich
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Jane Pauley
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Dennis Cosmo Michael
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George Scribner
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George Lucas
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Robert Zemeckis
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Richard Williams
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Dean Cundey
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Roger Ebert
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Richard Purdum
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David Friedman
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Paula Abdul
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Dudley Moore
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Jerry Orbach
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Angela Lansbury
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GetĂșlio Vargas
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Gary Franklin
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Gene Siskel
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Karl Malden
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Kathleen Turner
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Paul Newman
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Elizabeth Taylor
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Henry Selick
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Edwin Catmull
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Andrew Stanton
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Pete Docter
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Ralph Eggleston
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Jim Fowler
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Joseph the Lion
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Pancho the Lion
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Brenda Chapman
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Ruben A. Aquino
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Travis Blaise
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Richard Turner
Self (voice) (archive footage)
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Laurin Sydney
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Charles Gibson
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Jeremy Irons
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Nathan Lane
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Ernie Sabella
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Bob Goen
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Sarah Jessica Parker
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Matthew Broderick
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James Earl Jones
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Cecilia Hart
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Robert Guillaume
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Donna Brown Guillaume
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Chris Sanders
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James Baxter
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Marc Davis
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Milt Kahl
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Ward Kimball
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John Lounsbery
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Joe Lanzisero
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Darrell Van Citters
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Brett Thompson
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Leslie Margolin
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Mike Cedeno
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Paul Nowak
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Nancy Beiman
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Jerry Rees
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Bruce Morris
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Elmer Plummer
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Brad Bird
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Doug Lefler
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Harry Sabin
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Eddie Fisher
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Doris Day
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Don Bluth
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Gary Goldman
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John Pomeroy
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Lorna Cook
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Heidi Guedel
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Linda Miller
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Emily Jiuliano
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Skip Jones
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Vera Pacheco
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Dave Spafford
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Sally Voorheis
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Saul Steinberg
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John V. Lindsay
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Barry Diller
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Lem Davis
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Alvy Ray Smith
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Danny Troob
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Tim Rice
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Howard Ashman
Self / Sebastian (voice) / Ariel (voice) (archive footage)
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Alan Menken
Self / Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
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Jodi Benson
Self / Ariel (voice) (archive footage)
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Bette Midler
Self / Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
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Richard Dreyfuss
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
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Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins (archive footage)
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Tom Hanks
Allen Bauer (archive footage)
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Daryl Hannah
Madison (archive footage)
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Tom Selleck
Peter Mitchell (archive footage)
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Steve Guttenberg
Michael Kellam (archive footage)
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Ted Danson
Jack Holden (archive footage)
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Lisa Blair
Mary (archive footage)
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John Hurt
The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)
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Grant Bardsley
Taran (voice) (archive footage)
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Pat Fraley
The Gwythaint (voice) (archive footage)
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Janet-Laine Green
Wish Bear (voice) (archive footage)
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Sunny Besen Thrasher
Jason (voice) (archive footage)
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Eve Evans
Secret Bear (voice) (archive footage)
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Cree Summer
Kim (voice) (archive footage)
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Judge Reinhold
Ken Kessler (archive footage)
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Bob Hoskins
Eddie Valiant (archive footage)
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Charles Fleischer
Roger Rabbit (voice) (archive footage)
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Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny (voice) (archive footage)
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Cheech Marin
Tito (voice) (archive footage)
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Pat Carroll
Ursula (voice) (archive footage)
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Butch Patrick
Eddie Munster (archive footage)
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Fred Gwynne
Herman Munster (archive footage)
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Wayne Allwine
Mickey Mouse (voice) (archive footage)
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Susan Egan
Belle (archive footage)
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Burke Moses
Gaston (archive footage)
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Terrence Mann
Beast (archive footage)
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Frank Welker
Abu (voice) / Lion roars (voice) (archive footage)
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Stubby Kaye
Marvin Acme (archive footage)