Sleeping Beauty (disambiguation) explained

Sleeping Beauty is a classic fairy tale.

Sleeping Beauty may also refer to:

Film

• The Sleeping Beauty (1930 film), a Soviet film directed by Georgi Vasilyev and Sergei Vasilyev
• The Sleeping Beauty (1935 film), an American cartoon in the Puppetoon series by George Pal, included in The Puppetoon Movie
• Sleeping Beauty (1942 film), an Italian film
• Sleeping Beauty (1959 film), an American animated film from Walt Disney Pictures
  • Aurora (Disney), the title character of the Disney film
  • Sleeping Beauty (franchise), a Disney media franchise that began in 1959 with the release of Sleeping Beauty
• Sleeping Beauty (1955 film), a 1955 West German film directed by Fritz Genschow
• Sleeping Beauty (1973 film) or Some Call It Loving, a drama by James B. Harris
• Sleeping Beauty (1987 film), a film starring Tahnee Welch
• Sleeping Beauties (film), a 1999 American comedy film
• Sleeping Beauty (2010 film), a film by Catherine Breillat
• Sleeping Beauty (2011 film), an Australian film starring Emily Browning
• Sleeping Beauty (2014 film), an American film directed by Casper Van Dien

Literature

• "The Day-Dream", an 1842 poem by Alfred Tennyson, a reworking of his 1830 poem "The Sleeping Beauty"
• Sleeping Beauty, a 1947 novel by Faith Baldwin
• The Sleeping Beauty, a 1953 novel by English writer Elizabeth Taylor
• "Sleeping Beauty" (short story), a 1957 science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Sleeping Beauty (novel), a 1973 novel by Ross Macdonald
• The Sleeping Beauty Quartet, four erotic novels (1983–2015) by Anne Rice writing under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure
• Sleeping Beauty, a 1991 novel by Judith Michael
• Sleeping Beauty, a 1993 novel by A. L. Singer, a novelization of the 1959 film
• Sleeping Beauties, a 1993 novel by Susanna Moore
• Sleeping Beauty, a 1995 novel by Jane Donnelly
• Sleeping Beauties, a 1996 novel by Mavis Cheek
• Sleeping Beauty, a 1998 novel by Judith Ivory
• Sleeping Beauty, a 2003 novel by Narinder Dhami, a novelization of the 1959 film
• Sleeping Beauty, a 2004 novel by Phillip Margolin
• Sleeping Beauty: The One Who Took The Really Long Nap, a 2006 novel by Wendy Mass
• The Sleeping Beauty (novel), a 2010 novel by Mercedes Lackey
• Sleeping Beauties (novel), a 2017 novel by Stephen King and Owen King

Music and theatre

Operas

• La belle au bois dormant (Carafa), by Michele Carafa, 1825
• La belle au bois dormant (Lecocq), by Charles Lecocq, 1900
• Dornröschen (The Sleeping Beauty), by Humperdinck, 1902
• La bella dormente nel bosco, by Respighi, 1922

Other stage works

• The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, an extravaganza by James Planché, 1840
• The Sleeping Beauty (ballet), a ballet by Tchaikovsky, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa, 1889
• Prinsessa Ruusunen (Sleeping Beauty), a ballet by Erkki Melartin, 1904

Albums

• Sleeping Beauty (Sun Ra album) or the title song, 1979
• The Sleeping Beauty (Live in Israel) or the title song by Tiamat, 1994

Songs

• "Sleeping Beauty" (song), by Divinyls, 1985
• "Sleeping Beauty", by Brotherhood of Man from Higher Than High
• "Sleeping Beauty", by Diaura from Focus
• "Sleeping Beauty", by Lene Lovich from Stateless
• "Sleeping Beauty", by A Perfect Circle from Mer de Noms
• "Sleeping Beauty", by Perfume from Level3
• "The Sleeping Beauty", by Tiamat from Clouds

Science

• Kleine–Levin syndrome or Sleeping Beauty syndrome, a neurological disorder
• Nicole Delien (born 1995), woman that suffers from Kleine-Levin syndrome and is called "Sleeping Beauty" in the media
• Oxalis corniculata or Sleeping Beauty, a herbaceous plant
• Somnophilia or Sleeping Beauty syndrome, a paraphilia
• Sleeping Beauty (paper with delayed recognition)
• Sleeping Beauty Galaxy or Black Eye Galaxy
• Sleeping Beauty transposon system, a genetic tool for gene discovery and gene transfer

Television

• "Sleeping Beauty" (Faerie Tale Theatre), an episode of Faerie Tale Theatre
• "The Sleeping Beauty" (The O.C.), an episode of The O.C.
• "Sleeping Beauty", an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

Other uses

• Sleeping Beauty (Cheech & Chong album), a 1976 comedy album by Cheech and Chong
• Sleeping Beauty (canoe), a WWII submersible electric-powered canoe for a frogman to ride
• The Sleeping Beauty (wax figure), a wax figure at Madame Tussauds in London
• Sleeping Beauty, Kalinga, a mountain in the Philippines
• Sleeping Beauty Castle, a structure at Disneyland Park and Hong Kong Disneyland Park
• Sleeping Beauty Mountain Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Sleeping Beauty Peak, a mountain in Washington state, U.S.
• Sleeping Beauty Rock, Taiwan
• Sleeping Beauty Cave, a cave in Peja, Kosovo
• La Bella Durmiente, Peru (Spanish for "Sleeping Beauty"), a mountain
• Sleeping Beauty problem, a puzzle in probability
• Dornröschen (Sussmann-Hellborn), a sculpture ("Sleeping Beauty")
• Sleeping Beauty, a neologism coined by linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann as an alternative to extinct language
• Sleeping Beauty, a legend in the Western Mountains region of Yunnan, China
• Francys Arsentiev (1958–1998), American mountaineer whose corpse on Mount Everest was nicknamed "Sleeping Beauty"
• , a 2024 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

See also

• • • Sleeping Princess (film), a 2010 Turkish film written and directed by Çağan Irmak