Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Paige O'Hara
Belle
Robby Benson
Beast
Jesse Corti
Lefou
Rex Everhart
Maurice
Angela Lansbury
Mrs. Potts
Jerry Orbach
Lumiere
Bradley Pierce
Chip
David Ogden Stiers
Cogsworth
Hal Smith
Philippe (voice)
Richard White
Gaston
Jo Anne Worley
Wardrobe
Mary Kay Bergman
Bimbette (voice)
Kath Soucie
Bimbette (voice)
Gary Trousdale
Director
Kirk Wise
Director
Alvin Epstein
Bookseller (voice)
Linda Woolverton
Writer
Tony Jay
Monsieur D'Arque (voice)
Brenda Chapman
Writer
Brian Cummings
Stove (voice)
Alec Murphy
Baker (voice)
Chris Sanders
Writer
Burny Mattinson
Writer
Kimmy Robertson
Featherduster (voice)
Don Hahn
Producer
Frank Welker
Footstool (voice)
Alan Menken
Composer
Alex Murphy
Baker (voice)
Sherry Lynn
Additional Voices (voice)
John Carnochan
Editor
Ellen Keneshea
Editor
Mickie McGowan
Additional Voice (voice)
Jack Angel
Additional Voices (voice)
Albert Tavares
CastingDirector
Bruce Adler
Additional Voices (voice)
Scott Barnes
Additional Voices (voice)
Vanna Bonta
Additional Voices (voice)
Maureen Brennan
Additional Voices (voice)
Liz Callaway
Additional Voices (voice)
Philip L. Clarke
Additional Voices (voice)
Margery Daley
Additional Voices (voice)
Jennifer Darling
Additional Voices (voice)
Albert de Ruiter
Additional Voices (voice)
George Dvorsky
Additional Voices (voice)
Bill Farmer
Additional Voices (voice)
Bruce Fifer
Additional Voices (voice)
Johnson Flucker
Additional Voices (voice)
Larry Hansen
Additional Voices (voice)
Randy Hansen
Additional Voices (voice)
Mary Ann Hart
Additional Voices (voice)
Phyllis Kubey
Additional Voices (voice)
Hearndon Lackey
Additional Voices (voice)
Larry Moss
Additional Voices (voice)
Panchali Null
Additional Voices (voice)
Wilbur Pauley
Additional Voices (voice)
Jennifer Perito
Additional Voices (voice)
Caroline Peyton
Additional Voices (voice)
Patrick Pinney
Additional Voices (voice)
Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Additional Voices (voice)
Phil Proctor
Additional Voices (voice)
Stephen Sturk
Additional Voices (voice)
Roy Dotrice
Narrator (voice)
John Lasseter
Executive Producer
Sarah McArthur
Producer / Associate Producer
Bruce Woodside
Story
Brian Pimental
Story
Tom Ellery
Story
Robert Lence
Story
Howard Ashman
Executive Producer / Songs / In Memory Of
Bill Wilner
Editor
Joe Ranft
Story
Kevin Harkey
Story
Brian McEntee
Art Direction
Dale E. Grahn
Color Timer
Anthony DeRosa
Animation
Tim Allen
Animation
James Baxter
Animation Supervisor
Larry White
Animation
Jeannine Berger
Post Production Consulting
Scott F. Johnston
Software Engineer
Bill Perkins
Layout
Rick Moore
Layout
Andreas Deja
Animation Supervisor
Nik Ranieri
Animation Supervisor
Donald Towns
Background Designer
David J. Rowe
Compositors
Shannon Fallis Kane
Compositors
Jim Hillin
CGI Supervisor
Roger Allers
Story
Greg Drolette
Background Designer
Kelly Asbury
Story / Visual Development
Russ Edmonds
Animation Supervisor
Jim Coleman
Background Designer
John Emerson
Background Designer
Will Finn
Animation Supervisor
James "J.R." Russell
Compositors
Ruben A. Aquino
Animation Supervisor
Dan St. Pierre
Layout
Tia W. Kratter
Background Designer
Randy Fullmer
Visual Effects Supervisor
Michael Cedeno
Visual Development
Terry Porter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Tom Shannon
Layout
Phillip Phillipson
Background Designer
Tom Woodington
Background Designer
David Molina
Visual Development
Sue C. Nichols
Visual Development
Chris Wahl
Animation Supervisor
Cristy Maltese
Background Designer
Dean Gordon
Background Designer
Kevin Lima
Visual Development
Mel Metcalfe
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Glen Keane
Animation Supervisor
Jean Gillmore
Visual Development
Terry Shakespeare
Visual Development
Matthew Messinger
Casting Associate
Lorenzo E. Martinez
Layout
Robert E. Stanton
Background Designer
Rasoul Azadani
Layout
Fred Craig
Layout
Thom Enriquez
Layout
Doug Ball
Background Designer
Joe Grant
Visual Development
David Pruiksma
Animation Supervisor
Larry Leker
Layout
Tanya T. Wilson
Layout
Baker Bloodworth
Production Manager
David J. Hudson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Diana Wakeman
Background Designer
Don Henry
Projection
Dave Burgess
Animation
Philip Phillipson
Background Designer
Henry Schuman
Musician
Dorothy McKim
Production Supervisor
Bruce Grant Williams
Assistant Production Manager
Ruben Procopio
Sculptor
Nina Saxon
Title Designer
Steven Tyler Sahlein
Post-Production Manager
Christophe Vacher
Background Designer
Linda Bel
CG Animator
Julia Evershade
ADR Editor / Sound Editor
Michael Show
Animation
David Stephan
Animation
Harlene Mears
Painter
Tim O'Donnell
Production Manager
Barry Cook
Visual Effects Supervisor
David Karp
Painter
Pamela G. Kimber
Assistant Editor
Dana Jon Chappelle
Mixing Engineer
Cynthia Overman
Animation
Leslie Hough
Assistant Production Manager
Bryan Pezzone
Musician
Phyllis Bird
Painter
Theresa Bentz
Assistant Production Manager
Peter Davies
Musician
Kathleen Bennett
Supervising Music Editor
Dan Haskett
Character Designer
Joe Haidar
Animation
Chuck Williams
Editorial Staff
John Moses
Musician
Susan Wileman
Painter
Gary W. Smith
Camera Operator
Mary Jane 'M.J.' Turner
Software Engineer
Vince Caro
Score Engineer
Doug Krohn
Animation
Daniel Boulos
Animation
James Melton
Assistant Editor
Deborah Tobias
Assistant Production Manager
Sonny Pettijohn
Assistant Sound Editor
Oscar Mitt
Assistant Sound Editor
Catherine Rowe
Foley
Geefwee Boedoe
Animation
Tony Bancroft
Animation
Rick Farmiloe
Animation
Barry Temple
Animation
Suzie Vissitzky Tooley
Assistant Production Manager
David Friedman
Conductor
Patricia Hicks
Assistant Production Manager
James Thatcher
Musician
Cathy McGowan Leahy
Production Manager
John Cunningham
Camera Supervisor
Ron Husband
Animation
Beth Ann Collins
Editorial Staff
Charlie Desrochers
Production Coordinator
Jessica Gallavan
Sound Editor
Michael Kurinsky
Background Designer
Fumiko R. Sommer
Painter
Phyllis Fields
Painter
Carmen Sanderson
Painter
Norman Ludwin
Musician
Carole Constantineau
Production Accountant
Kyle Patterson
Production Accountant
Mary Beth Smith
Negative Cutter
Paulino GarcÃa
Painter
Anne Hazard
Painter
Vanessa Theme Ament
Foley
Edward Kummer
Software Engineer
Robyn L. Roberts
2D Supervisor
Brad Kuha
Animation
Rejean Bourdages
Animation
Paul Steele
Assistant Production Manager
Gregory William Griffith
CG Animator
Leyla C. Amaro Nodas
Painter
John Pospisil
Special Sound Effects
Vance Gerry
Thanks
John Aardal
Camera Operator
Mary Lescher
Camera Operator
Tom Sito
Animation
Lorna Cook
Animation
Alex Kupershmidt
Animation
Phillip Young
Animation
Tony Anselmo
Animation
John Richards
Scoring Mixer
Darrell L. Brown
Production Accountant
Russell Blandino
Painter
Broose Johnson
Animation
Randy Cartwright
Animation
Ken Duncan
Animation
Lennie K. Graves
Animation
Mark Kausler
Animation
Tom Boyd
Musician
Heidi Shellhorn
Painter
John Roesch
Foley
Deirdre Hepburn
Assistant Editor
Ethmer Roten
Musician
Danny Troob
Orchestrator
Britt Van der Nagel
Painter
Mark Henn
Supervising Animator
Bruce Phillipson
Painter
Robin J. Flynn
Production Accountant
Charles Paley
Music Editor
Stephen B. Moore
Visual Effects Supervisor
Aaron Blaise
Animation
Ellen Woodbury
Animation
James R. Tooley
CG Animator
Deborah Mooneyham
Painter
Sherrie Cuzzort
Painter
Gregory Perler
Associate Editor
Kevin Wade
Production Coordinator
Ron Bartlett
Sound Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 22, 1991
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 24m
Content RatingG
Budget$25,000,000
Box Office$424,967,620
Genres
Wiki.
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is based on the 1756 fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (who was only credited in the French dub), while also containing ideas from the 1946 French film also of the same name directed by Jean Cocteau. The film was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise (in their feature directorial debuts) and produced by Don Hahn, from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton.
Beauty and the Beast focuses on the relationship between the Beast, a prince who is magically transformed into a monster and his servants into household objects as punishment for his arrogance and cruelty, and Belle, a young woman whom he imprisons in his castle in exchange for her father's freedom. To break the curse, the Beast must learn to love Belle and earn her love in return before the last petal from an enchanted rose falls, or else he will remain a monster forever. The film stars Paige O'Hara and Robby Benson as the voices of Belle and the Beast, respectively, as well as the ensemble voices of Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart, and Angela Lansbury.Walt Disney first attempted to adapt Beauty and the Beast into an animated film during the 1930s and 1950s, but was unsuccessful. Following the success of The Little Mermaid (1989), Walt Disney Pictures decided to adapt the fairy tale, which Richard Purdum originally conceived as a non-musical period drama. After seeing a test reel, Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg scrapped Purdum's idea and ordered that the film be a musical similar to The Little Mermaid instead. Composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman, both of whom previously worked on The Little Mermaid, returned to write this film's songs. Ashman, who additionally served as the film's executive producer, died of AIDS-related complications six months before the film's release, and the film is thus dedicated to his memory.
Beauty and the Beast premiered as an unfinished film at the New York Film Festival on September 29, 1991, followed by its theatrical release as a completed film at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on November 13. The film grossed $331 million at the box office worldwide on a $25 million budget and received widespread acclaim for its romantic narrative, animation (particularly the ballroom scene), characters, and musical numbers. Beauty and the Beast won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, the first animated film to ever win that category. It also became the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards (ultimately losing to The Silence of the Lambs), where it won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for its title song and received additional nominations for Best Original Song and Best Sound. In April 1994, Beauty and the Beast became Disney's first animated film to be adapted into a Broadway musical, which ran until 2007.
An IMAX version of the film was released in 2002 and included the new song "Human Again", originally an eight-minute storyboarded musical sequence ultimately replaced with "Something There", but later revised in the 1994 musical as a five-minute piece. That same year, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". After the success of the 3D re-release of The Lion King, the film was reissued in 3D in 2012. In 2014, Time magazine ranked Beauty and the Beast as the greatest film of the Disney Renaissance and one of the greatest animated films of all time.
Other derived works and material inspired by the film, include a 2017 live-action remake of the film directed by Bill Condon, which was released on March 17, 2017, and a 2022 musical presentation of the film on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney.