THIS is a 1980s PHOTOCOPY of a MODEL SHEET from DISNEY ANIMATION and NOT VINTAGE ORIGINAL 1950s ART.
THIS is A PHOTOCOPY of ANIMATION ART of a MODEL SHEET from DISNEY's SLEEPING BEAUTY featuring MALEFICENT & Her STAFF
Maleficent is a fictional character who appears as the main antagonist in Walt Disney Productions' 16th animated feature film, Sleeping Beauty (1959).
She is represented as an evil fairy and the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" who, after not being invited to a christening, curses the infant Princess Aurora to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun sets on Aurora's sixteenth birthday.
Maleficent is based on the evil fairy godmother character in Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, as well as the villainess who appears in the Brothers Grimm's retelling of the story, Little Briar Rose. Maleficent was animated by Marc Davis.
She is voiced by Eleanor Audley, who earlier voiced Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's evil stepmother, in Cinderella (1950).
THIS is a 1980s PHOTO COPY MODEL SHEET from DISNEY ANIMATION and NOT VINTAGE ORIGINAL 1950s ART.
The character was animated by Marc Davis who also animated Aurora in the film.
She was aptly named "Maleficent" (an adjective which means "doing evil or harm").
In determining Maleficent's design, standard depictions of witches and hags were dismissed as Davis has opted for an elegant, sinister, green-skinned beauty, depicted as "vain femme fatale, utilizing a classic archetype of a bad woman."
According to Davis, Maleficent "was designed like a giant vampire bat to create a feeling of menace."
THIS is a 1980s PHOTO COPY from DISNEY ANIMATION and NOT VINTAGE ORIGINAL 1950s ART.
It was long rumored that Maleficent's likeness was inspired by actress Maila Nurmi, best known for her character Vampira, a camp icon of the 1950s.
In 2014, entries were discovered in Nurmi's journals describing sessions for Walt Disney in November of 1956. Walt Disney was subsequently able to find archival documents corroborating Nurmi's participation as a "live-action reference" model for the character
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THIS is a 1980s PHOTO COPY from DISNEY ANIMATION and NOT VINTAGE ORIGINAL 1950s ART.