- “She is indeed most wondrous fair. Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red, red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose.”
- ―Maleficent describing Aurora
Princess Aurora (also known as Briar Rose) is the titular protagonist of Disney's 1959 animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. She is the daughter of King Stefan and Queen Leah. On the day of her christening, Aurora was cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent. Due to the efforts of three good fairies, the curse was altered to instead draw Aurora into a deep sleep that could only be broken by true love's kiss.
Aurora is the third official member of the Disney Princess line-up and is significant for being the last to be developed during Walt Disney's lifetime.
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Background[]
Official Description[]
- Also known as Briar Rose, Aurora is graceful and kind. She knows that a wonderful future awaits, if you just have the courage to dream it. Aurora enjoys using her imagination and sharing stories with her forest friends. She is also loyal in her relationships — to her animal friends, her fairies, and her kingdom. Aurora believes in a wish and remains hopeful that she will find the adventure she is looking for.
Development[]
The original design for Aurora was developed by Tom Oreb, who based the figure of Aurora on Audrey Hepburn's thin frame and graceful demeanor. Later, Marc Davis worked on sketches of Oreb, improving the appearance and clothing of the heroine so that they were combined with angular forms of background images.
Marc Davis' wife, Alice, designed some of Aurora's costumes.[2] According to the designer, this was her first job at the Walt Disney Studios, during which she became Marc's wife in 1956.
As with other Disney films, an actress was hired as a live-action model, as a guide for the animators. Helene Stanley became the model for the heroine.[3] She had previously worked on this post, fulfilling the role of Cinderella.
Personality[]
Aurora is a kind, elegant, graceful, angelic, loving, and gentle person, as well as a hopeless romantic. At first, she is seen as a slightly shy, playful, and carefree young woman as a result of being sheltered for most of her life. Aurora is very loyal and honest to her "aunts" and usually obeys their rules respectfully, even though she may disagree with them. Since she was raised not to talk to strangers, Aurora was naturally startled and apprehensive when the handsome Prince Phillip approached her in the forest. However, she was drawn to him before remembering her aunts' rule about not talking to strangers. Aurora then compromised in agreeing to talk to him by arranging to meet him at her cottage, under the supervision of her aunts.
Despite her innocence and apparent dependence on others' actions and opinions, Aurora isn't as passive or helpless as she may seem at first sight. For example, she's rather annoyed by how Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, despite Aurora's adolescence, treat her like a small child, which gives a hint that Aurora, in fact, is prone to independence and not willing to rely purely on somebody's opinion. Also, she's actually quite selfless and strong-willed. When Aurora finds out about her real background as a princess and realizes that she can't see the man she fell deeply in love with anymore, she, although deeply upset, shows firmness and loyalty to those that she cares about. Aurora agrees to push her feelings away and do what is right: return home and fulfill her royal duty as a princess, even if she has to marry a man she doesn't love and barely knows how to live like royalty. However, upon being awakened by Phillip and being saved from the sleeping curse, Aurora is happy to discover the man she loves and her betrothed are the same person, filling her with sentience and happiness as she embraces her new life as a princess after reuniting with her parents.
In later media, Aurora is shown to have greatly matured and become far more self-assured, proactive, independent, and responsible, as well as confident in her opinions and abilities.
Physical appearance[]
- “One gift, beauty rare
Gold of sunshine in her hair
Lips that shame the red, red rose
She'll walk with springtime wherever she goes!” - ―Flora presenting the Gift of Beauty
Aurora is a beautiful young woman who was magically blessed with waist-length, wavy, golden hair like sunshine, violet eyes, duchess nose, and lips that shame the red rose. She has a tall, slender figure and her skin is fair and flawless. Unlike the Disney Princesses created before her, Snow White and Cinderella, and even the others created after, such as Ariel, Rapunzel, and Moana for example, her face is less rounded and more angular and refined, giving her an appearance of maturity rather than youth despite being only sixteen.
As a peasant, she wears a black bodice over a gray long-sleeved calf-length frock with a white shirt collar and petticoat and goes barefoot (wears black ballet flats with brown/gray soles in the canceled Disney Princess Enchanted Tales movie, A Kingdom of Kindness). She wears a black headband and carries a purple shawl when going out.
As her princess self, she wears a pink or blue ball gown with a petal overskirt, a ruffled white petticoat, long triangular sleeves, a golden tiara, and blue or pink shoes. During the original film, Flora and Merryweather fight for the colors of her ball gown either in pink or blue, even at the end of the film where Aurora dances with Prince Phillip in a ballroom dance. The dress is blue for most of the original film, but in later appearances and merchandise, Aurora's ball gown is depicted as pink.
Abilities[]
In Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, Aurora was given a magic wand from Merryweather to use, and Aurora was able to wield its magical powers such as making two stacks of papers pick themselves up, transforming her nightgown into a ball gown with a dazzling necklace, matching earrings, and a jeweled tiara. She summoned chickens and cows and temporarily turned a farmer into a duck. Later in the story, Aurora fixes her problems and gives away the remaining cows to the peasants. At the end of the story, she returned the wand to Merryweather, having learned she shouldn't have taken the easy way out.
In the original film, despite Aurora having been enchanted by Maleficent, Aurora's willpower combined with shouts from the fairies temporarily gave her the strength to regain control of herself for a few seconds before pricking her finger on the spinning wheel's spindle and falling into a deep sleep.
Appearances[]
Sleeping Beauty[]
An infant Aurora in the arms of her mother at her christening.
Aurora's parents name her after the Roman goddess of the dawn because she fills their lives with radiant sunshine. Soon after she is born, she is presented to the kingdom at a christening, where she is betrothed to Prince Phillip, the son of King Stefan's good friend King Hubert. Also invited are the three good fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, who bestow blessings on the newborn princess. Flora and Fauna give the infant princess the gifts of great beauty and song, respectively. But before Merryweather has the opportunity to give her gift, the evil fairy Maleficent arrives. Angered because, she found out about the ceremony and was not invited, Maleficent puts a curse on baby Aurora. Maleficent siad that, before the sun sets on Aurora's sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. King Stefan ordered the guards to catch Maleficent, but she disappears in a puff of green smoke, leaving everyone in shock and horror at Aurora's doomed future. Though unable to lift the curse, Merryweather is able to soften it. Instead of death, she would alter the situation by placing Aurora into an enchanted sleep, which is the fateful prophecy she'll keep, only to be awakened by true love's kiss if this is to happen.
Aurora as Briar Rose.
Meanwhile, Stefan has every spinning wheel in the kingdom destroyed in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the fulfillment of the curse to protect his daughter. Still fearful for the princess' safety, the three good fairies negotiated with her parents to hide the princess as a peasant for 16 years until the danger has passed. They take the baby to a cottage in the forest and raise her, disguising themselves as her mortal aunts and renaming her Briar Rose. On Aurora's sixteenth birthday, her "aunts" send her out into the forest to pick berries, so that they can prepare her birthday party in secret. While Aurora is out, she has a conversation with her animal friends and dreams of meeting a handsome prince, as she is singing "Once Upon a Dream". At first, she is singing to her forest friends, but she soon meets Prince Phillip, who has followed her melodic voice. Not knowing who Phillip is, or of their betrothal, she at first believes him to be a stranger and attempts to leave. However, she dances with him for a bit and ends up falling in love. When he asks for her name, she then leaves, due to realizing she isn't allowed to give her name to strangers. She does, however, tell him where she lives and asks him to meet her there that night.
Aurora and the spinning wheel.
Meanwhile, Briar Rose comes home to a splendid birthday party. She tells her aunts about the young man that she met but gets confused when they are not happy for her. Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather reveal Briar Rose's true identity as Princess Aurora, as well as the fact that she has been betrothed. The fairies sadly explain that she can never see the young man again, not knowing that he is actually her betrothed. Heartbroken, Aurora breaks into tears as she heads upstairs to weep on her bed. She doesn't speak again for the rest of the film (even both her love interest, Phillip, and her mother, Leah, do the same thing). The fairies bring the brokenhearted Aurora back to her father's castle, but in disguise with a hood and cloak to avoid anyone seeing her until the proper time. Before she can see her parents, they take her to a room where they conjure a crown and place it on her head to help her realize her royal identity. However, a heartbroken Aurora begins to cry and the fairies decide to leave her alone to grieve. While they are gone, Maleficent places the princess in a trance and leads her up an abandoned tower staircase. Just then, at the top floor of the empty room, Maleficent conjures a spinning wheel. The fairies realize that Aurora's in trouble due to their mistake of leaving her alone and frantically run up the stairs to stop her, but before they can, Maleficent forces the girl to prick her finger on the spindle, invoking the curse. When the fairies arrive too late to find Aurora, Maleficent mocks them for their failed efforts of trying to stop her by revealing the sleeping princess before vanishing, cackling maniacally in triumph.
Aurora awakens.
Disappointed about their failure, the fairies place Aurora, now in an enchanted slumber, upon a bed at the top of the highest tower. Knowing that everyone would be heartbroken and disappointed if they discovered this news, the fairies decide to put everyone to sleep until Aurora awakens. While putting all the residents in the kingdom to sleep, the fairies discover that Phillip has been the man that Aurora met all along after overhearing King Hubert speak of his son meeting a peasant girl before he falls asleep with everyone else. So the fairies go to the cottage to get Phillip but are then prompted to go to the Forbidden Mountain, Maleficent's domain, after discovering that Maleficent has captured and imprisoned the prince. They rescue Phillip from the dungeon and arm him with the Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue. After fending off Maleficent's minions, they finally exit the Forbidden Mountain just in time and head for Stefan's castle. Just then, Maleficent tries to prevent Phillip from doing so by assaulting him with her magic in various ways, culminating it by creating a forest of thorns in front of the castle, though Phillip manages to hack through the thorns with little effort. Angered at this, Maleficent suddenly appears in their way and transforms herself into a dragon. After defeating Maleficent in her dragon form with some help from the fairies, Phillip enters the castle and walks up the staircase to the tower room, where Aurora is still sleeping. He gives her a kiss, a true love's kiss, which finally awakens Aurora and breaks the curse. Aurora smiles after she realizes that her betrothed and her love are the same person. Thanks to Phillip, this also freed all the royals in the kingdom from their indefinite sleeping curse.
The couple goes down to the ballroom to meet Aurora's parents and Phillip's father, who are also freed from the sleeping curse by Phillip's true love kiss on Aurora. She reunites and hugs her parents to embrace them, and kisses Hubert on his cheek before sharing a dance with Phillip. While the couple dances, Merryweather and Flora reignite their rivalry once again on their respective colors as the two bickering fairies relentlessly change the color of her dress with their magic. Aurora's ball gown keeps changing colors as she and Phillip continue dancing and share another kiss, with the final words in the book, below the illustration of the couple romantically kissing (and the color of Aurora's ball gown still changing between blue and pink) "and they lived happily ever after".
Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams[]
Aurora in Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams.
Princess Aurora appears in the story, "Keys to the Kingdom". In the story, Prince Phillip, King Hubert, King Stefan, and Queen Leah go off for a Royal Conference for two days. During this time, with the advice and help of Stefan's majordomo, Lord Duke, Princess Aurora is in charge of the Kingdom until they return. Throughout the segment, Aurora attempts to rely on staying calm during hectic situations, but this proves to be a challenge. Later on, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather leave the castle to return Hubert's forgotten speech. Before she left, Merryweather allowed Aurora to use her magic wand during harsh times and Duke reminded Aurora that they have too much work for the kingdom. Aurora initially thought of this as an easy way to avoid a hassle, ignoring her original vow to stay calm. Soon enough, the magic causes more trouble than before, having her result to her previous plans which prevail. Aurora succeeds and when her parents, Hubert, Phillip, the Good Fairies, and Duke (who was headbutted by a cow that sends him out of the castle) return, they then enjoy a banquet she prepared. It was implied in this story that Aurora's favorite color was pink seeing how she only wore her pink ball gown for this entire story, and she changed the color of her nightgown pink right before she went to bed.
Mary Costa, the original voice of Aurora, was not fond of this story and felt that it did not work.[4]
House of Mouse[]
Aurora in House of Mouse.
Aurora makes numerous cameo appearances in the television series House of Mouse, always in her peasant gown from her years of hiding as Briar Rose.
In her notable appearance in the episode "House of Genius", Aurora and Phillip were waiting to be welcomed by Donald, but as he was sleeping on the job, she commented: "And they call me Sleeping Beauty!".
In "Ask Von Drake", during Ludwig Von Drake's song, Aurora sleeps at her table, having Ludwig leave an alarm clock by her side.
In "Jiminy Cricket", she was advised by Jiminy to use a sewing machine as opposed to a spinning wheel.
In "Donald and the Aracuan Bird", when Donald attempts to shoot the Aracuan Bird with the dart gun, he ends up inadvertently shooting everyone in the audience except for Aurora, causing everyone, including Prince Phillip, to fall asleep, much to her dismay and annoyance.
She also appears in Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse and briefly in Mickey's House of Villains, where she, Cinderella, and Belle are harassed by the Fates before the Queen of Hearts beheads the Fates soon after.
In the series, Aurora is voiced by Jennifer Hale, who is also the current voice actress for Cinderella.
Sofia the First[]
- “Oh, Sofia. I could always count on my animal friends to help me through tough times and so can you.”
- ―Aurora to Sofia
Aurora as she appeared in Sofia the First.
Aurora appears in the Season 1 Christmas Special episode, "Holiday in Enchancia". She is the first Disney Princess to not sing on the show and instead gives Sofia some good advice by simply talking to her. She is seen in her redesigned look along with a winter cape.
When King Roland goes missing, Sofia and her family go out into the cold blizzard snow to find him, but as a result, they get lost too. When Sofia's amulet starts glowing, she wanders off to a spot where she can be alone and finds Aurora. Aurora tells Sofia she can always count on her animal friends to help her through tough times, before disappearing.
In "Forever Royal", when Sofia battles Vor inside her amulet, Aurora appears to Sofia in spirit form, along with all the princesses who have been summoned to help Sofia in her times of need, and they encourage her to be brave and strong for they all believe in her.
Ralph Breaks the Internet[]
- “It was lovely to meet you, Vanellope.”
- ―Aurora's goodbye to Vanellope
Aurora with Tiana in Ralph Breaks the Internet.
In Ralph Breaks the Internet, Aurora is a netizen who lives and works with the other Disney Princesses in Oh My Disney, where they meet their fans. When Vanellope glitches into the princesses' dressing room to hide from the First Order Stormtroopers, Aurora is seen taking a nap on the couch while holding the rose she held when she was under Maleficent's curse. Mistaking Vanellope as a threat, the princesses charge at her with various weapons; Aurora wields the spindle of the cursed spinning wheel, holding it like a dagger or knife. Vanellope explains that she's a princess as well to assure the girls she means them no harm, which prompts Pocahontas to ask what kind of princess she is, as they are unsure if she's being honest with them. Aurora and Tiana (while the former is being pulled away from the cursed spinning wheel by the latter) ask Vanellope if she has been cursed, which she denies.
After declaring Vanellope an official princess, Aurora and the princesses admire her "gown" and change into more comfortable modern clothes to match made by Cinderella's mice. Aurora wears sleepover attire that consists of a pink headband, a striped long-sleeved pajama top with pink and deep pink stripes and a graphic that reads "Nap Queen" in gold letters with a crown on the letter "N", dark pink pants and pink ballet flats, and is seen lounging on an ottoman while sipping a can of lemon-lime soda. After hearing Vanellope's song about the steering wheel she needs to fix her video game, Sugar Rush, Aurora gives Vanellope an awkward look. When C-3PO enters the room to tell the princesses to get ready for another quiz, Aurora says goodbye to Vanellope. Merida tries to give Vanellope advice in an unintelligible Scottish accent, to which Aurora makes an awkward face.
In the climax of the film, Aurora and the princesses witness Ralph about to fall to his death, and they work together to save him. Aurora uses the spinning wheel to spin Rapunzel's magic hair into ropes. After Ralph is safe, the princesses introduce themselves as Vanellope's friends and befriend Ralph as well.
Other appearances[]
A modernized Aurora can be seen walking down a street in Oliver & Company, shortly after Oliver, Dodger, Rita, Francis, Tito, and Einstein finish singing "Streets of Gold", but before they raid the Foxworths' Limousine resulting in Oliver being found and adopted by Jenny, who was riding inside.
In Once Upon a Studio, Aurora and Phillip watch Belle and Beast begin to sing "When You Wish Upon a Star". They then join all of the characters in a group photo to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Printed media[]
Maleficent's Revenge[]
In this story, Aurora plays more of a heroic role. As the plot follows, Maleficent returns from the deathly Underworld and seeks revenge on Aurora and Phillip in midst of the royal couple's first wedding anniversary. The evil fairy does so by cursing the kingdom, turning everyone, except Aurora herself, into stone. To save her subjects and loved ones, Aurora travels to the Forbidden Mountains and offers her life in exchange for the kingdom. Maleficent agrees, placing Aurora in a sleep-like death, and freeing the citizens of the kingdom, as promised. After his revival, Phillip rushes off to rescue Aurora, battling and eventually defeating Maleficent in the process. With true love's kiss, Aurora's eternal sleeping spell is broken, this time for good, and peace and order are restored.
Kilala Princess[]
Aurora in Kilala Princess.
In the manga series Kilala Princess, Aurora is celebrating her 17th birthday when princesses Kilala and Sylphy and Prince Rei enter her world to find a magical gem. Kilala is mistaken for a maid due to her appearance and is forced to work. Aurora finds Kilala on the balcony and comforts her. She has been told that Kilala is in love with Rei, and tells her of her own story with Prince Phillip and what kept her love strong. The witch, Maleficent, emerges to curse Aurora with slumber once more, but Kilala shields the princess from harm, sacrificing herself in the process. Rei kisses Kilala and, through the kiss of true love, breaks the spell and defeats Maleficent permanently. The glass bead Kilala received from a young princess earlier transforms into a rose quartz, depicting the importance of being faithful to her dreams if she wants them to come true.
Aurora is last seen witnessing Kilala receive her own special gem: an emerald.
Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy[]
Aurora appears in this book trapped in the Dreamscape right after she pricked her finger on the Spinning Wheel and had fallen to Maleficent's curse and it is there she encounters Lucinda, Ruby, and Martha, who are trapped alongside her. It is revealed that Aurora is really Maleficent's biological daughter, or more accurately, she was formed from the remaining good traits Maleficent had.
Video games[]
Kingdom Hearts series[]
In Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Aurora's backstory is more or less the same as it was in the film. By the time Terra arrives at the Enchanted Dominion, Aurora has already been placed in a deep slumber under the influence of the curse laid by Maleficent. When Terra reaches the tower and meets Maleficent, she uses the darkness in his heart to temporarily take control of his body as well as his mind and forces him to take Aurora's heart. Her heart was kept in Maleficent's castle until Ventus comes to retrieve it with the three good fairies. Although her heart returned, the curse is not broken. Prince Phillip eventually escapes with Aqua's aid and reaches the tower where he kisses Aurora and breaks the spell.
During the ending credits, she and Prince Phillip are seen dancing in the audience chamber of the castle, just like at the end of the movie.
In Kingdom Hearts, she is known to be a Princess of Heart and is among the seven to be captured by Riku and Maleficent, most likely by Maleficent herself after recovering from her defeat by Aqua and Phillip and gaining the support of the Heartless, consigning Enchanted Dominion into the Realm of Darkness in the process. She plays a small but important role in the story. Aurora is placed in another deep sleep with the other princesses until Sora, Donald Duck, and Goofy rescue them and Aurora tells them about Ansem. She and the other princesses help open the keyhole and along with the other princesses, she also gives Sora the power of fire. Later, she tells Sora further information about Maleficent. Afterwards, she returns to her home as it is restored following the sealing of the Door To Darkness and the defeat of Ansem in End of the World.
Her name is part of the password to enter Tron's world, in Kingdom Hearts II.
Kinect: Disneyland Adventures[]
Aurora appears in the game as a meet-and-greet character outside the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Fantasyland. She assigns a few tasks to the player, including helping her prepare a party for the Good Fairies and searching for bird songs. She also participates in the Mickey's Soundsational Parade and Princess Fantasy Faire mini-games.
Disney Heroes: Battle Mode[]
Aurora made her first appearance in the game as a playable character, she is unlockable from Gold and Diamond Crates, and although she does not have any basic attacks, her protective fairies defend her from enemies, granting Aurora shields and attacking enemies.
Aurora's friendship campaigns are with Fairy Godmother and Snow White.
Disney Dreamlight Valley[]
Aurora is set to appear in the game with Part 2 of the Storybook Vale DLC set to release later in 2025. She originally watched over the Vale, even when her arch-enemy Maleficent and Hades took over and transformed their respective sides of the Vale into the Everafter and Mythopia around the time The Forgetting hit Dreamlight Valley, but when the two Disney Villains' in-fighting caused an event know as "The Neverafter" to occur, damaging the Vale and severely weakening the Lorekeeper in the process, Aurora vanished to parts unknown. Feeling finding her enemy was her duty, Maleficent had been investigating the damage herself, and after the player convinces her to make amends with Hades, Maleficent vanishes, presumably to begin her mission to find Aurora and bring her back.
It is also revealed that Aurora's "aunts" in Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, were behind the creation of the Royal Net that the player uses to help the Lorekeeper regain her strength and fix the damage to the Vale in Aurora's absence.
Disney Parks[]
Aurora poses for a photo in a pink dress at Disneyland.
Princess Aurora is a meetable character at Disney parks around the world. She is usually at Fantasy Faire in Disneyland Park or in stage shows that include a princess scene. If it is not her and Prince Phillip, it is Belle and Beast or Ariel and Eric.
Aurora has her own spell card known as "Aurora's Rose Petals" in the attraction Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom.
Aurora also appears on the princess-themed float in Mickey's Soundsational Parade as well as in Jubilation!, Mickey's Once Upon a Christmastime Parade, and Flights of Fantasy Parade. She is also featured on the final float-themed after Sleeping Beauty in the grand finale of Magic Happens, where her dress can change between pink and blue.
For meet n' greets, Aurora can be found at the Magic Kingdom's Princess Fairytale Hall occasionally. In Epcot, she can often be found in the France Pavilion, only a short distance away from where Guests can also meet Belle, in a gazebo close to the International Gateway and stations for the watercraft coming from nearby resorts and the Disney Skyliner. During the wintertime, she'll be wearing a coat-styled version of her dress to keep warm, with the collar much thicker with fur, and her shoulders and neck protected as well against the colder temperatures.
Aurora is also present for the Fantasylands of both Disneyland Paris and Tokyo Disneyland. Aurora also makes meet-and-greet appearances aboard the Disney Magic.
She and Phillip can also be seen dancing during the "I See the Light" segment of Disney Dreams! at Disneyland Paris.
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Princess Aurora appears onscreen with Phillip during Princess Medley, but not in every show. Aurora also reappears riding Steamboat Willie at the top with other Disney Princesses and many other Disney characters.
Dream Along with Mickey[]
Aurora appeared dancing with Cinderella, Snow White, and their princes. Aurora assists Cinderella and Snow White in making Minnie's dream of being a princess come true. She reappears at the end with the other characters to celebrate the defeat of Maleficent and her minions Captain Hook and Mr. Smee.
Disney Princess[]
Redesign[]
Aurora received relatively few changes in her late 2012 redesign. Her bangs no longer sport the distinctive curl in the front and are now combed and curled more to the side like a typical hair parting. Her tiara is no longer as pointy, and the rubies that used to be studded in it have been replaced with pink rose quartz. The white shoulders of her ball gown are now more refined and streamlined, and no longer as sharp and pointed-looking. The entire ball gown itself is now decorated with swirly designs of climbing flowers and vines. This reworking of Aurora's look is carried over to the Disney Parks. She also has a more sparkly and glittery redesign for her blue ball gown.
In her early redesigns, she had a long sash beneath her hips instead of the triangular cutouts, but in the current redesign, the cutouts remained in her ball gown.
Palace Pets[]
Aurora's Palace Pets are Beauty, Bloom, Nuzzles, Fern, Macaron, Ash, and Chipper.
Differences from the source material[]
Aurora is based on the princess featured in the fairy tale "La Belle Au Bois Dormant" by Charles Perrault, but there are many differences:
- The princess is not named in Perrault's fairy tale, although she is called Talia in the original Italian version. Disney utilized two names from other sources: "Briar Rose" from the Brothers Grimm version, and "Aurora" from the Tchaikovsky ballet.
- The princess is not betrothed to a prince as a baby.
- There are seven fairies invited to the christening. The eighth was not invited because she had not left her home for fifty years and everyone thought her dead. When she arrives, she is allowed to stay but does receive a golden casket like the others as only seven were prepared; this makes her believe she has been intentionally slighted.
- The fairies do not hide the princess away or raise her as their own.
- The princess wanders the castle alone one day and finds a kindly old woman spinning on her distaff who had not heard of the king's ban on spinning wheels, in contrast to Aurora being hypnotized by Maleficent into pricking her finger.
- Everyone in the castle learns of what happened to the princess. The king and queen depart while the seventh fairy puts the others to sleep and barricades the castle with a wall of thorny trees (in the film Maleficent does this to deter Phillip).
- The princess sleeps for one hundred years.
- The prince does not awaken the princess with a kiss but simply kneels by her bed at the same moment the spell breaks.
Relationships[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Aurora's name means "sunrise" or "dawn" in Latin.
- She is frequently branded as "Sleeping Beauty" rather than her name in Disney Princess merchandise, likely because she does not go by her birth name for the majority of the film. Her real name is often unused or even unknown by some fans.
- She is the only princess who has never talked with the villain of her film.
- Out of all Disney Princesses, she has the least amount of screen time (18 minutes). She is followed by Tiana who has the second least screen time as a human (19 minutes).
- Aurora says only 18 lines of dialogue (the least of any Disney Princess) and is completely silent in the second half of the film, even after waking up.
- Her first line is delivered 19 minutes into the film, and her last line is delivered 39 minutes in.
- She is second only to Dumbo (who didn't speak at all) as the protagonist with the least amount of dialogue throughout their movie.
- The last sound heard from Aurora in the film is when she is crying at the mirror shortly before being hypnotized by Maleficent. The crying sounds are not provided by Mary Costa but are a recycled stock sound effect of Dopey crying at Snow White's funeral in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- Her film did not originally do well at the box office, nor was it ever re-released in Walt Disney's lifetime. Sleeping Beauty was also the last Princess film made in Disney's lifetime and the final Disney film within the fairy tale genre until The Little Mermaid in 1989.
- However, the film developed a loyal following in later years and Aurora has gained much popularity when the Disney Princess franchise was created. This makes her film a sleeper hit.
- All the Princesses' films so far were commercially successful during their initial theatrical releases, except for Aurora and Raya's, thus making their films the only ones to be commercial failures during their initial releases. Aurora would, however, later on, appear in the highly successful live-action blockbuster film Maleficent and the hit animated movie Ralph Breaks the Internet.
- Aurora is also the last "traditional" Disney Princess; as these princesses are much more reactive and passive, though Cinderella took some initiative. After that, the later Princesses became more "contemporary" and proactive, starting with Ariel in 1989.
- In the sequel books, she has a palomino horse named Mirette.
- Aurora is the only Disney Princess to actually wear a typical princess gown. The other Princesses wear clothes that are not commonly categorized as a "typical" princess gown. In Aurora's case, the gown was meant to distinguish her role as a princess.
- Aurora's alias is Briar Rose, which is also the title of the Brothers Grimm version of the tale.
- The Brothers Grimm version of Sleeping Beauty is based on the 1636 story by Giambattista Basile called Sun, Moon, and Talia.
- The name Aurora is the name of Sleeping Beauty's daughter in the Charles Perrault version and is the name for the titular character in the Tchaikovsky ballet.
- Aurora is the first Disney Princess to have an official alias, Briar Rose.
- Aurora is the first Disney Princess to have both parents alive and present during the entire film, followed by Mulan, Rapunzel, Merida, and Moana.
- Aurora is one of the eight Disney Princesses to be royal by birth, second after Snow White.
- Despite having a similar narrative to Snow White, wherein they both fell into a deep sleep, Aurora is much more associated with the sleeping trademark.
- Alongside Snow White, Merida, Tiana, and Raya, Aurora has not had a sequel to her film.
- Aurora's ball gown is constantly changed from blue to pink and back again as a running gag during her film. The constant color change is due to Flora and Merryweather's disagreement on what the color should be.
- The gag of Aurora's gown changing color from blue to pink throughout the film was inspired by the filmmakers' difficult decision on deciding the gown's color during production.
- The final scene of Sleeping Beauty with her and Prince Phillip dancing and going off into the clouds was an abandoned concept from both Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella.
- The dance animation would later be reused in the final scene of Beauty and the Beast.
- In the ballet, her father is named King Florestan the XXIV, the Prince is named Désiré or Florimund, and the evil fairy is called Carabosse. There are five fairies named Candide (Candor), Coulante, Fleur de farine (Flowing, Wheat flour), Miettes qui tombent (Falling breadcrumbs), Canari qui chante (Singing canary), and Violente (Force). The Lilac Fairy is the final and sixth good fairy and is considered the most powerful.
- The infant Aurora does not make an actual appearance onscreen in the film. She is mostly just wrapped in quilts, but you can't actually see her.
- Aurora's original voice actress, Mary Costa, is the only actress alive of the first three Princesses. Both Adriana Caselotti and Ilene Woods passed away in 1997 and 2010, respectively. She is also the only surviving cast member of her film.
- Strangely, in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Aurora's bed vanishes, as does Aurora herself when completing Terra's and Ventus' scenarios in her world when she should be asleep in her bed. Though more than likely for the story of the world, it means that Aurora is awake due to Aqua helping Prince Phillip rescue her.
- Coincidentally, Kate Higgins, the latest voice actor for Aurora, also voices Briar Beauty, the daughter of Sleeping Beauty in the Mattel webisode series Ever After High.
- Aurora is the first Disney Princess to have an arranged marriage as a conflict, followed by Jasmine, Pocahontas, and Merida. In her case, she was hesitant to return to the castle due to its meaning of having to violate her promise of meeting the stranger she met (who, ironically enough, was her betrothed).
- She is also the only one of the four to actually marry the person to whom she was betrothed.
- In the scene where Maleficent appears in the fireplace and hypnotizes Aurora to prick her finger, the female vocalist heard is actually saying "Aurora!", and it is spoken by none other than Mary Costa herself. While difficult to hear in the film, it is much clearer on the official soundtrack.[5]
- Excluding Merida, who is owned by Pixar, Aurora and Jasmine are the only two Disney Princesses to not appear in the end credits for Wish.
- Aurora's blue dress does make a cameo in the film in the wish of an aspiring dressmaker named Sania.
- Her name was used for the debut of the teal-colored Disney+ logo, in reference to the streaming service merging with Hulu.
- Aurora is remarkable for being the first Disney Princess to be originally voiced by an adult. Her predecessors, Snow White and Cinderella, were both originally voiced by then-teenagers (Adriana Caselotti and Ilene Woods respectively).
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Sleeping Beauty (Platinum Edition). [DVD audio commentary]. Walt Disney Home Entertainment. 2008.
- ↑ Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition. Perfect Picture: Making of Sleeping Beauty. A documentary, 2008
- ↑ Sleeping Beauty: Special Edition. Once Upon a Dream: Making of Sleeping Beauty. 2003
- ↑ http://www.dvdizzy.com/sleepingbeauty-interview2.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w2SqTg-R2Q
External links[]
Aurora (Disney) on WikipediaAurora (Disney) on Heroes Wiki
- Aurora on Disney.com
- Aurora on Kingdom Hearts Wiki
Aurora on Disney Tsum Tsum Wiki
Aurora on Disney Princess Wiki
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