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Similar tales include the story of Cupid and Psyche, and Madame D'Aulnoy's Le Mouton (The Ram).
Beauty's father, caught in a storm, finds shelter in the Beast's palace. As he leaves, he plucks a rose to bring back to Beauty, offending his unseen host, who tells him he must now die. The father begs to be allowed to see his daughters again: the Beast says that if one of the man's daughters will return to suffer in his place, he may live. Beauty journeys to the Beast's castle, convinced she will be killed: instead, she is made mistress of the enchanted palace, and the Beast asks her to be his wife. She says she can be his friend, and will stay with him forever, but not as his wife, asking only to return to her home for a week to say farewell to her father. Her sisters entice her to stay beyond the allotted week, and she returns belatedly to the castle, finding the Beast lying near death from distress at her failure to return. She begs him to live, so that he may be her husband, and by this act the Beast is transformed into a handsome prince.
A sumptuous French version of Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bęte) was made in 1946, directed by Jean Cocteau, starring his lover Jean Marais as the Beast and Josette Day as Beauty. The score was by Georges Auric. The film is notable for its surreal quality and its ability to use existing movie technology to effectively evoke a feeling of magic and enchantment. In 1995 composer Philip Glass composed an opera meant as an alternative "soundtrack" to the movie, and some DVDs offer the ability to view the movie while listening to either version.
In 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac Disney produced an animated film of Beauty and the BeastBeauty and the Beast is a 1991 animated film produced by Disney which tells an adaptation of the well-known fairy tale story of a beautiful woman kept in a castle by a horrific monster. It was the first animated picture to be nominated for the Academy Awa with screenplay by Linda Woolverton , music by Alan MenkenAlan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American movie music composer. He collaborated with Howard Ashman on several films, notably animated features for Disney, Ashman writing the lyrics and Menken composing the scores. He has won 8 Academy Awards thus fa, and lyrics by Howard AshmanHoward Ashman ( May 3, 1950 March 14, 1991), born Howard Elliott Gershman in Baltimore, Maryland, was an American movie music lyricist. He collaborated with Alan Menken on several films, notably animated features for Disney, Ashman writing the lyrics and. It won Academy Awards for Best Song and Best Original Score and was the first animated feature ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. This version gave Beauty a name(Belle), but not the Beast. Also, in this version, the servants have been transformed into cute, personified objects. It is now considered one of the Walt Disney Company's "classics".