January 29, 1959 –
With a budget that exceeded $6 million, Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty opened in Los Angeles on this date.
Eleanor Audley–one of Walt Disney’s favorite voice artists, most memorably as Lady Tremaine in Cinderella, initially turned the part of Maleficent down, much to Disney’s surprise. As it later transpired, Audley was in the midst of battling a bout of tuberculosis and did not want to tax her voice too much. Fortunately, she recovered and accepted the part.
The Haus of Dcaligari 