Waking Sleeping Beauty
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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Cast
Don Hahn
Roy Edward Disney
Michael Eisner
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Peter Schneider
Rob Minkoff
Glen Keane
Ron Clements
John Musker
Mike Gabriel
Roger Allers
David Pruiksma
Gary Trousdale
Kirk Wise
Thomas Schumacher
Mark Kimball
Dick Cook
Lisa Keene
Elton John
Lillian Disney
Randy Cartwright
Ron Miller
Ruben Procopio
Tim Burton
Wolfgang Reitherman
Jeanette Thomas
Frank Thomas
Marie E. Johnston
Ollie Johnston
Eric Larson
Joe Ranft
Les Clark
Ron Hendren
Frank Wells
Don Griffith
John Lasseter
Walt Disney
Roy O. Disney
Connie Chung
Diane Sawyer
Ted Berman
Phil Nibbelink
Joe Hale
Ed Gombert
Shirley Temple
Kathleen Gavin
Maureen Donley
Pat Riley
Alex Trebek
Steven Spielberg
Richard Rich
Jane Pauley
Dennis Cosmo Michael
George Scribner
George Lucas
Robert Zemeckis
Richard Williams
Dean Cundey
Roger Ebert
Richard Purdum
David Friedman
Paula Abdul
Dudley Moore
Jerry Orbach
Angela Lansbury
Getúlio Vargas
Gary Franklin
Gene Siskel
Karl Malden
Kathleen Turner
Paul Newman
Elizabeth Taylor
Henry Selick
Edwin Catmull
Andrew Stanton
Pete Docter
Ralph Eggleston
Jim Fowler
Joseph the Lion
Pancho the Lion
Brenda Chapman
Ruben A. Aquino
Travis Blaise
Richard Turner
Laurin Sydney
Charles Gibson
Jeremy Irons
Nathan Lane
Ernie Sabella
Bob Goen
Sarah Jessica Parker
Matthew Broderick
James Earl Jones
Cecilia Hart
Robert Guillaume
Donna Brown Guillaume
Chris Sanders
James Baxter
Marc Davis
Milt Kahl
Ward Kimball
John Lounsbery
Joe Lanzisero
Darrell Van Citters
Brett Thompson
Leslie Margolin
Mike Cedeno
Paul Nowak
Nancy Beiman
Jerry Rees
Bruce Morris
Elmer Plummer
Brad Bird
Doug Lefler
Harry Sabin
Eddie Fisher
Doris Day
Don Bluth
Gary Goldman
John Pomeroy
Lorna Cook
Heidi Guedel
Linda Miller
Emily Jiuliano
Skip Jones
Vera Pacheco
Dave Spafford
Sally Voorheis
Saul Steinberg
John V. Lindsay
Barry Diller
Lem Davis
Alvy Ray Smith
Danny Troob
Tim Rice
Howard Ashman
Alan Menken
Jodi Benson
Bette Midler
Richard Dreyfuss
Julie Andrews
Tom Hanks
Daryl Hannah
Tom Selleck
Steve Guttenberg
Ted Danson
Lisa Blair
John Hurt
Grant Bardsley
Pat Fraley
Janet-Laine Green
Sunny Besen Thrasher
Eve Evans
Cree Summer
Judge Reinhold
Bob Hoskins
Charles Fleischer
Mel Blanc
Cheech Marin
Pat Carroll
Butch Patrick
Fred Gwynne
Wayne Allwine
Susan Egan
Burke Moses
Terrence Mann
Frank Welker
Stubby Kaye
