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- The 4 vultures — The Beatles. © The Jungle Book / Disney, © Parlophone Music Sweden / Wikimedia. While producing the animated version of the novel The Jungle Book, Disney and the filmmakers in charge of the adaptation, conceived a rather ingenious cameo of The Beatles.
- Maleficent — Eleanor Audley. © The Sleeping Beauty / Disney, © Wikipedia. Eleanor Audley not only gave a voice to Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty, but Disney filmmakers also asked her to perform and film the scenes that would help the animators produce the fictional character.
- Jessica Rabbit — Rita Hayworth. © Who Framed Roger Rabbit? / Amblin Entertainment, © Bob Coburn / Wikimedia. The bombshell of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? became an icon due to her portrayal in the film and her stunning figure.
- The Mad Hatter — Ed Wynn. © Alice in Wonderland / Disney, © Wikimedia. The Mad Hatter is one of Alice’s most distinctive and unique characters in Alice in Wonderland.
- Belle. Belle is only called Belle in the Disney versions of Beauty and the Beast; she’s just straight-up Beauty in the original. Then again, given that Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s “Belle et La Bête,” which published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les Contes Marins, was written in French, the character’s name probably would have been Belle anyway, so… do with that what you will.
- Rapunzel. The history of “Rapunzel” as a story is actually quite convoluted. Although the world is generally the most familiar with the version published by the Brothers Grimm in their 1812 collection Children’s and Household Tales, author and editor Terri Windling (who is wonderful, and you should absolutely read her stuff) traced it back much farther in her essay “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair”: The Grimms took it from Friedrich Schulz’s version, which was published in 1790; Schulz had taken his version from the 1698 French tale “Persinette” by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force; and she had taken it from “Petrosinella,” a 1634 Italian story by Giambattista Basile.
- Jasmine. So, here’s something interesting: Although most of us are probably aware that Disney’s Aladdin was based off of the The One Thousand And One Nights story of the same name, that story was actually not part of the original Arabic text.
- Ariel. There isn’t a historical personage on whom Ariel, aka the Little Mermaid, was based — but Disney’s version of the tale is quite different from Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 Danish fairytale.
Jun 24, 2024 · Who was the real Princess Tiana? Meet the Louisiana legend who inspired her. By creating a space where people of color could dine in elegance, Leah Chase reshaped the culinary landscape of New ...
Mulan as depicted in the album Gathering Gems of Beauty (畫麗珠萃秀) (Qing dynasty; ca 18th century). Hua Mulan (Chinese : 花木蘭) is a legendary Chinese folk heroine from the Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century CE) of Chinese history. Scholars generally consider Mulan to be a fictional character.
Jan 28, 2024 · Q: Can you provide an example of a Disney princess inspired by a real person? A: Absolutely! Take Pocahontas, the courageous and wise princess from the Disney film of the same name. She was based on a historical figure named Matoaka, known by her nickname Pocahontas. Q: Tell us more about the real Pocahontas.
Aug 12, 2021 · Pocahontas is Disney’s first attempt at basing a princess on a real person rather than a fairy tale; I still feel that it failed, though: they twisted the facts about her story, focusing on her ...
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