Movie · 2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Released 5 September 2009 More from 2009 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Angela Lansbury
as Self (archive footage)
Pat Carroll
as Ursula (voice) (archive footage)
Shirley Temple
as Self (archive footage)
Eddie Fisher
as Self (archive footage)
Mel Blanc
as Bugs Bunny (voice) (archive footage)
John V. Lindsay
as Self (archive footage)
Dudley Moore
as Self (archive footage)
Fred Gwynne
as Herman Munster (archive footage)
Frank Welker
as Abu (voice) / Lion roars (voice) (archive footage)
Ted Danson
as Jack Holden (archive footage)
Jeremy Irons
as Self (archive footage)
Pat Fraley
as The Gwythaint (voice) (archive footage)
Ernie Sabella
as Self (archive footage)
Charles Fleischer
as Roger Rabbit (voice) (archive footage)
Terrence Mann
as Beast (archive footage)
Nathan Lane
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Hanks
as Allen Bauer (archive footage)
Gary Trousdale
as Self
Chris Sanders
as Self (archive footage)
Jodi Benson
as Self - Ariel (voice) (archive footage)
Andrew Stanton
as Self (archive footage)
Cree Summer
as Kim (voice) (archive footage)
Susan Egan
as Belle (archive footage)
Sunny Besen Thrasher
as Jason (voice) (archive footage)
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The numbers
51years between the oldest and youngest billed
83Angela Lansbury — oldest on the call sheet
32Sunny Besen Thrasher — youngest billed
60average age of the credited cast