Little Mermaid, The: Ariel’s Beginning (film)

Little Mermaid, The: Ariel’s Beginning (film) Direct to DVD animated feature, released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on August 26, 2008. A year before Ariel meets Prince Eric, she and her sisters share a love for music with their mother, Queen Athena. But when the Queen is captured by pirates, King Triton is heartbroken …

Little Mermaid, The

Little Mermaid, The Stage version of the 1989 animated film, opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway on January 10, 2008, after previews beginning November 3, 2007. It had a pre-Broadway run at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts from July 26 to September 9, 2007. Lyricist Glenn …

Little Mermaid, The: Ariel’s Undersea Adventure

Little Mermaid, The: Ariel’s Undersea Adventure Dark ride attraction opening at Disney California Adventure on June 3, 2011. Guests embark in an clam shell Omnimover for a visit to scenes from The Little Mermaid film. The attraction is located in a new elegant Victorian Exposition-style building, featuring an ornate 86-foot-long hand-painted mural. Also, as Under …

Little Mermaid, The (television)

Little Mermaid, The (television) Animated television series debuting on September 12, 1992, on CBS and ending September 2, 1995, utilizing the voices of Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Kenneth Mars, and Samuel E. Wright from the original film, and adding others, such as Danny Cooksey (Urchin), Edan Gross (Flounder), and Maurice La Marche (Scuttle). The series …

Little Mermaid, The (film)

Little Mermaid, The (film) Animated tale of a beautiful young mermaid, Ariel, who is fascinated by the human world, to the dismay of her father, King Triton. She spies Prince Eric and falls hopelessly in love. Sebastian the crab is sent by the king to keep an eye on Ariel, though he cannot stop her …

Little League Moochie (film)

Little League Moochie (film) 16mm release title of Moochie of the Little League.

Little Matchgirl, The (film)

Little Matchgirl, The (film) An animated short, without spoken dialogue, directed by Roger Allers and set to the music of Alexander Borodin’s “String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: Third Movement: Noturno (Andante).” A poor young girl finds visions of happiness in the fiery flames of the matches that she lights to keep warm. 7 …

Little Kidnappers, The (television)

Little Kidnappers, The (television) Two mischievous boys “borrow” an abandoned infant, keeping their discovery secret, and set their gruff grandfather’s temper aflame in turn-of-the-century Nova Scotia. Directed by Donald Shebib. A Disney Channel Premiere Film, first aired on August 17, 1990. Stars Charlton Heston (James MacKenzie), Patricia Gage (Ruth MacKenzie), Leah Pinsett (Kirsten), Charles Miller …

Little Lake Bryan

Little Lake Bryan Thirty-acre lake on the Walt Disney World property on which Disney built a recreation center for its cast members. The area was extensively remodeled and renamed Mickey’s Retreat in 1998. In August 1996, an apartment community opened at the same location. The first development was dubbed Plantation Park, and other apartment communities …

Little John

Little John Robin Hood’s bumbling bear pal; voiced by Phil Harris.