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The French title of Beauty and the Beast is La Belle et la Bête. As suggested by the book's title, the tale Beauty and the Beast is a story incorporated into a didactic dialogue and told to several young ladies of quality (ages five through thirteen) by their governess, whose name is Mrs. Consider this, though: Beauty and the Beast is one of the few fairy tales where the main characters actually get to know each other before falling in love.

Beauty and the Beast (A Walt Disney Classic)
Beauty and the Beast (A Walt Disney Classic)
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Product Details

  • Starring: David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Orbach, Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White
  • Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
  • Audio Format: Analog, Analog
  • Binding: VHS Tape
  • Director: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale
  • EAN: 9786302526578
  • Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
  • ISBN: 6302526574
  • Label: Walt Disney Home Video
  • Language: English
  • Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
  • Number of Items: 1
  • Product Group: Video
  • Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video
  • Release Date: 1992-10-30
  • Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
  • Theatrical Release Date: 1991-11-22
  • Title: Beauty and the Beast (A Walt Disney Classic)
  • UPC: 717951325037
Avg Customer Rating: 4 stars

Product Description: The film that officially signaled Disney's animation renaissance (following The Little Mermaid) and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself), Belle boldly takes her father's place, imprisoned in the Beast's gloomy mansion. Naturally, Belle teaches the Beast to love. What makes this such a dazzler, besides the amazingly accomplished animation and the winning coterie of supporting characters (the Beast's mansion is overrun by quipping, dancing household items) is the array of beautiful and hilarious songs by composer Alan Menken and the late, lamented lyricist Howard Ashman. (The title song won the 1991 Best Song Oscar, and Menken's score scored a trophy as well.) The downright funniest song is "Gaston," a lout's paean to himself (including the immortal line, "I use antlers in all of my de-co-ra-ting"). "Be Our Guest" is transformed into an inspired Busby Berkeley homage. Since Ashman's passing, animated musicals haven't quite reached the same exhilarating level of wit, sophistication, and pure joy. --David Kronke --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


Customer Reviews


5 stars Beauty and the Beast
This product was in excellent condition and arrived within one week of my ordering it.


5 stars Yay!
What an awesome movie. The seller was awesome and took care of the problem right away.


5 stars very pleased
I was very pleased with the purchase, came in a resonable time and was in the condition the seller listed it as.


4 stars gotta love Belle....my daughter does :)
so wonderful to see this again, my 2 1/2 year old can't get enough... i'm sure we'll wear out the disk before she's 3. :)

(anecdote - we recently were in New York City, and upon passing St. Patrick's cathedral, my daughter started hollering 'hi Princesses! hi Belle! I'm your friend, are you home at the castle???" :)


4 stars disney
i loved this movie when it first came out. i lost it and now i am glad to have it back in my collection again

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