Waking Sleeping Beauty

72.23 %|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

In Memory Of

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Cast

Self

Self

Self

Self

Self

Self / Pumbaa (voice)

Self

Self

Self

Self (voice)

Self / Jenny Foxworth / Timon (voice)

Self (voice)

Self

Self

Self

Self (voice)

Self (voice)

Self

Self (archive footage)

Lillian Disney

Self (archive footage)

Randy Cartwright

Self (archive footage)

Ron Miller

Self (archive footage)

Ruben Procopio

Self (archive footage)

Tim Burton

Self (archive footage)

Wolfgang Reitherman

Self (archive footage)

Jeanette Thomas

Self (archive footage)

Frank Thomas

Self (archive footage)

Marie E. Johnston

Self (archive footage)

Ollie Johnston

Self (archive footage)

Eric Larson

Self (archive footage)

Joe Ranft

Self (archive footage)

Les Clark

Self (archive footage)

Ron Hendren

Self (archive footage)

Frank Wells

Self (archive footage)

Don Griffith

Self (archive footage)

John Lasseter

Self (archive footage)

Walt Disney

Self (archive footage)

Roy O. Disney

Self (archive footage)

Connie Chung

Self (archive footage)

Diane Sawyer

Self (archive footage)

Ted Berman

Self (archive footage)

Phil Nibbelink

Self (archive footage)

Joe Hale

Self (archive footage)

Ed Gombert

Self (archive footage)

Shirley Temple

Self (archive footage)

Kathleen Gavin

Self (archive footage)

Maureen Donley

Self (archive footage)

Pat Riley

Self (archive footage)

Alex Trebek

Self (archive footage)

Steven Spielberg

Self (archive footage)

Richard Rich

Self (archive footage)

Jane Pauley

Self (archive footage)

Dennis Cosmo Michael

Self (voice) (archive footage)

George Scribner

Self (archive footage)

George Lucas

Self (archive footage)

Robert Zemeckis

Self (archive footage)

Richard Williams

Self (archive footage)

Dean Cundey

Self (archive footage)

Roger Ebert

Self (archive footage)

Richard Purdum

Self (archive footage)

David Friedman

Self (archive footage)

Paula Abdul

Self (archive footage)

Dudley Moore

Self (archive footage)

Jerry Orbach

Self (archive footage)

Angela Lansbury

Self (archive footage)

Getúlio Vargas

Self (archive footage)

Gary Franklin

Self (archive footage)

Gene Siskel

Self (archive footage)

Karl Malden

Self (archive footage)

Kathleen Turner

Self (archive footage)

Paul Newman

Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Taylor

Self (archive footage)

Henry Selick

Self (archive footage)

Edwin Catmull

Self (archive footage)

Andrew Stanton

Self (archive footage)

Pete Docter

Self (archive footage)

Ralph Eggleston

Self (archive footage)

Jim Fowler

Self (archive footage)

Joseph the Lion

Self (archive footage)

Pancho the Lion

Self (archive footage)

Brenda Chapman

Self (archive footage)

Ruben A. Aquino

Self (archive footage)

Travis Blaise

Self (archive footage)

Richard Turner

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Laurin Sydney

Self (archive footage)

Charles Gibson

Self (archive footage)

Jeremy Irons

Self (archive footage)

Nathan Lane

Self (archive footage)

Ernie Sabella

Self (archive footage)

Bob Goen

Self (archive footage)

Sarah Jessica Parker

Self (archive footage)

Matthew Broderick

Self (archive footage)

James Earl Jones

Self (archive footage)

Cecilia Hart

Self (archive footage)

Robert Guillaume

Self (archive footage)

Donna Brown Guillaume

Self (archive footage)

Chris Sanders

Self (archive footage)

James Baxter

Self (archive footage)

Marc Davis

Self (archive footage)

Milt Kahl

Self (archive footage)

Ward Kimball

Self (archive footage)

John Lounsbery

Self (archive footage)

Joe Lanzisero

Self (archive footage)

Darrell Van Citters

Self (archive footage)

Brett Thompson

Self (archive footage)

Leslie Margolin

Self (archive footage)

Mike Cedeno

Self (archive footage)

Paul Nowak

Self (archive footage)

Nancy Beiman

Self (archive footage)

Jerry Rees

Self (archive footage)

Bruce Morris

Self (archive footage)

Elmer Plummer

Self (archive footage)

Brad Bird

Self (archive footage)

Doug Lefler

Self (archive footage)

Harry Sabin

Self (archive footage)

Eddie Fisher

Self (archive footage)

Doris Day

Self (archive footage)

Don Bluth

Self (archive footage)

Gary Goldman

Self (archive footage)

John Pomeroy

Self (archive footage)

Lorna Cook

Self (archive footage)

Heidi Guedel

Self (archive footage)

Linda Miller

Self (archive footage)

Emily Jiuliano

Self (archive footage)

Skip Jones

Self (archive footage)

Vera Pacheco

Self (archive footage)

Dave Spafford

Self (archive footage)

Sally Voorheis

Self (archive footage)

Saul Steinberg

Self (archive footage)

John V. Lindsay

Self (archive footage)

Barry Diller

Self (archive footage)

Lem Davis

Self (archive footage)

Alvy Ray Smith

Self (archive footage)

Danny Troob

Self (archive footage)

Tim Rice

Self (archive footage)

Howard Ashman

Self / Sebastian (voice) / Ariel (voice) (archive footage)

Alan Menken

Self / Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)

Jodi Benson

Self / Ariel (voice) (archive footage)

Bette Midler

Self / Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)

Richard Dreyfuss

David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

Julie Andrews

Mary Poppins (archive footage)

Tom Hanks

Allen Bauer (archive footage)

Daryl Hannah

Madison (archive footage)

Tom Selleck

Peter Mitchell (archive footage)

Steve Guttenberg

Michael Kellam (archive footage)

Ted Danson

Jack Holden (archive footage)

Lisa Blair

Mary (archive footage)

John Hurt

The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)

Grant Bardsley

Taran (voice) (archive footage)

Pat Fraley

The Gwythaint (voice) (archive footage)

Janet-Laine Green

Wish Bear (voice) (archive footage)

Sunny Besen Thrasher

Jason (voice) (archive footage)

Eve Evans

Secret Bear (voice) (archive footage)

Cree Summer

Kim (voice) (archive footage)

Judge Reinhold

Ken Kessler (archive footage)

Bob Hoskins

Eddie Valiant (archive footage)

Charles Fleischer

Roger Rabbit (voice) (archive footage)

Mel Blanc

Bugs Bunny (voice) (archive footage)

Cheech Marin

Tito (voice) (archive footage)

Pat Carroll

Ursula (voice) (archive footage)

Butch Patrick

Eddie Munster (archive footage)

Fred Gwynne

Herman Munster (archive footage)

Wayne Allwine

Mickey Mouse (voice) (archive footage)

Susan Egan

Belle (archive footage)

Burke Moses

Gaston (archive footage)

Terrence Mann

Beast (archive footage)

Frank Welker

Abu (voice) / Lion roars (voice) (archive footage)

Stubby Kaye

Marvin Acme (archive footage)