The Jungle Book (1967 / 2016), Contrast Review
The Jungle Book exists in two substantial Disney adaptations across nearly five decades. The 1967 animated production is one of the great classical Disney films.
Verna Felton voiced the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, Flora in Sleeping Beauty and the matriarch elephant in Dumbo, which makes her one of Disney’s most used performers.
She had a substantial radio career beforehand, including a long run on The Red Skelton Show, and appeared in live-action film as well.
She died in 1966, one day before Walt Disney, which is a coincidence often noted in histories of the studio.
Bill MurrayThe Jungle Book exists in two substantial Disney adaptations across nearly five decades. The 1967 animated production is one of the great classical Disney films.
Eleanor AudleyCinderella is the film that saved the Walt Disney Company. The wartime production constraint.
Ed WynnAlice in Wonderland is one of the substantial mid-century Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful engagement with Lewis Carroll sourc. Various preproduction attempts had failed across multiple decades partly because of the substantial creative challenges that the Carroll…
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