Disney Legend Alan Menken Remembers His Friend, Disney Legend Angela Lansbury
Composer and Disney Legend Alan Menken collaborated with Lansbury several times and remembers his friend.
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Remembering Disney Legend Angela Lansbury
Award-winning actress and Disney Legend Angela Lansbury passed away today at her home in Los Angeles at age 96. While probably best known to television audiences as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running detective series Murder, She Wrote, her performances in two classic Disney films—Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Beauty and the Beast (1991)—endeared her to …
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Beauty and the Beast Producer Don Hahn’s 5 Favorite Memories from the Making of Both Films
By D23 Team Producer Don Hahn has the distinction of being one of the very few people to work on both of Disney’s adaptations of Beauty and the Beast. We sat down with the lucky guy, who also produced The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Maleficent, to hear …
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Angela Lansbury Joins Mary Poppins Returns
By Jeffrey Epstein In practically perfect news, Disney Legend Angela Lansbury has joined the cast of Mary Poppins Returns! The sequel to Walt Disney’s 1964 classic is currently filming at the Shepperton Studios in London and stars Emily Blunt (Into the Woods) as the title character. Lin-Manuel Miranda, an Oscar® nominee for penning Moana’s “How Far …
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks Brings the Age of Believing to D23 Members on the Lot!
By Tyler Slater Saturday, October 8, was a magical day on the Walt Disney Studios lot as nearly 400 D23 Members gathered to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Bedknobs and Broomsticks! After arriving on the historic campus and sitting down in the beautiful Walt Disney Studios Main Theatre, guests enjoyed a presentation by Disney historian …
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Catching Up with the Enchanted Objects from Beauty and the Beast
By William Keck In real life, sidekicks (usually our little brothers and sisters) can be, well, let’s face it—super annoying. But in Disney animated films, they are the characters who provide the biggest laughs and one-liners. There’s Ariel’s calypso-singing crab. Anna’s buck-toothed snowman. Peter’s jealous pixie. But it’s Beauty and the Beast’s Belle who really …
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Beauty and the Beast Returns to New York City, Chicago, Miami, and Washington, D.C.
By Tyler Slater Over the past weekend, D23’s Fanniversary brought enchantment to four cities as members relived Beauty and the Beast on the big screen. On September 17, D23 members took their seats in theaters in Chicago, Miami, and Washington, D.C., to celebrate the film wearing their most “beastly” and most beauteous attire—and picked up …
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Being Mrs. Potts
Disney Legend Angela Lansbury on what it was like to voice the precious Mrs. Potts.
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6 Amazing Behind-the-Scenes Photos of Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks
By Courtney Potter Bedknobs and Broomsticks reunited the creative team behind Disney’s blockbuster Mary Poppins—including director Robert Stevenson; producer and writer Bill Walsh; co-writer Don DaGradi; art director Peter Ellenshaw; special effects technician Eustace Lycett; and the award-winning songwriting team of Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman. Based on characters from a novel by Mary …
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Disney Legend Angela Lansbury Joins Damehood
“It is a very proud day for me to be recognized by the country of my birth,” Dame Angela said.
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