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WILHELM SCREAM: During the raid on the castle in the third act, when a villager is thrown through th [...]	D
Dame Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts) also played Mrs. Nellie Lovett in the original production of "Swee [...]	D
The weather conditions of the film seems rather strange. Supposedly the events of the film take plac [...]	D
Several characters in this movie are an homage to characters in the nine-time Academy Award winning [...]	D
With Jerry Orbach having died on December 28, 2004, this is the only theatrically released animated [...]	D
the Latin motto on the window is ""Vincit qui se vincit", it means "He conquers who conquers himself [...]	D
Animation historian John Canemaker referred to the Beast as animator Glen Keane's masterpiece.	D
The smoke seen during the transformation at the end is actually real smoke, not animated. It was ori [...]	D
The last phrase of Cogsworth's line "Flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep... " was [...]	D
When Paige O'Hara was auditioning, a bit of her hair flew in her face and she tucked it back. The an [...]	D
For the song "Gaston", Howard Ashman had written more lyrics than were required, so some lyrics had [...]	D
Chef Bouche is French for "mouth, facial feature above the chin and below the nose; bottled, blocked [...]	D
The only animated feature-length movie of the twentieth century to have been nominated for Best Pict [...]	D
Walt Disney was planning to make this animated movie as far back as the 1930s.	D
Lyricist and executive producer Howard Ashman came up with the idea of turning the enchanted objects [...]	D
The wolf chase sequence was originally going to include computer generated images like the ballroom [...]	D
Disney's original choice for director was Richard Williams, fresh off directing the animation for Ch [...]	D
Belle's eyes were originally going to be gray, but in the final cut, they were hazel. Belle is curre [...]	D
According to part two of "Lyrical Love", Chip is Mrs. Potts' twelfth child.	D
Scheduling conflicts with Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) forced Sir Patrick Stewart to turn d [...]	D
Belle's blue-and-white dress and hairstyle were inspired by Dorothy in Il mago di Oz (1939).	D
Beast is one of Disney's most unpredictable characters, because at first glance, he's a fierce monst [...]	D
The first animated feature to win a Golden Globe for Best Picture - Musical or Comedy.	D
Beast says only two words to Gaston, "Get out!"	D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year not to be nominated in any of the writing categories.	D
Amongst the trophy heads on Gaston's tavern is what appears to be a frog's head, visible in the shot [...]	D
This movie used 1,295 painted backgrounds and 120,000 drawings.	D
Beast says only two words to Gaston, "Get out!" Coincidentally, the horror/thriller movie Scappa - G [...]	D
Dame Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts in this movie) and Dame Emma Thompson (Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the [...]	D
According to producer Don Hahn, the audition song for the character of Lefou was "Take Me Out to the [...]	D
According to producer Don Hahn, the motif of the enchanted rose was inspired by the Wicked Witch's g [...]	D
In the 1930s, and again in the 1950s, Walt Disney attempted to adapt "Beauty and the Beast" into a m [...]	D
Glen Keane was most excited about the transformation sequence and said it would be the highlight of [...]	D
Originally, this movie was going to be more faithful to the original French fairy tale, which featur [...]	D
Many paintings on the walls of the castle are undetailed versions of famous paintings by such artist [...]	D
Three hundred seventy men and women were involved in this movie's production, of whom forty-three we [...]	D
This is the first theatrically released animated movie to feature David Ogden Stiers. He went on to [...]	D
When Chip turns back to regular form, his human transformation resembles Christopher Robin from Winn [...]	D
For the song "Be Our Guest", Alan Menken created placeholder melodies for which Howard Ashman would [...]	D
Howard Ashman wanted to have a scene in which the young Prince is first transformed into the Beast. [...]	D
The Beast of the film was drawn like a chimera, a monstrous creature with parts from multiple animal [...]	D
Laurence Fishburne, Val Kilmer, and Mandy Patinkin were considered for the role of Beast.	D
When Belle brings her father Maurice back to their cottage, Lefou is shown disguised as a snowman, i [...]	D
Actress and writer Sherri Stoner, best known for voicing Slappy the Squirrel on Animaniacs (1993), w [...]	D
Due to the nature of his curse, the Beast of the film has to find a woman who loves him by the time [...]	D
A song sung by the enchanted objects titled "Human Again" was cut before production started. The son [...]	D
This was one of two movies released in 1991 and preserved in the National Film Registry in 2002; the [...]	D
The following scenes take place in one single night to the early morning: when Belle is imprisoned b [...]	D
Belle's movements maintain an air of elegance. This was at the behest of the story writers and produ [...]	D
Included amongst the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the four hundred movies nominated for th [...]	D
Tony Jay previously had a recurring role as the villain Paracelsus in La bella e la bestia (1987).	D
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, losing to Il silenzio degli innocenti (1991). It was, howev [...]	D
The library in the Beast's castle bears a strong resemblance to the Oval Reading Room of the Richeli [...]	D
In the initial German release, Jana Werner and Peter Hofmann sang a German translation of "Beauty an [...]	D
The stained glass window that is seen at the end of this movie was built in Disneyland after this mo [...]	D
In an an early scene of the film, Belle describes her favorite book. It is apparently a fantasy book [...]	D
During the scene when the servants talk outside of Belle's bedroom door, in the background, the pain [...]	D
If you watch closely and notice the time frame of the movie, the entire story takes place in just a [...]	D
Chip is the only member of the Beast's staff to refer to Belle by name.	D
Belle is the first brown-haired Disney Princess.	D
The first stained-glass window seen in the prologue has the Latin phrase "vincit qui se vincit", whi [...]	D
All songs were the last complete works for a movie by Academy Award winner Howard Ashman. Ashman die [...]	D
Art directors working on this movie travelled to the Loire Valley in France for inspiration, and stu [...]	D
Originally, Beast was supposed to be stabbed by Gaston twice: once in the leg and again in the side, [...]	D
Right after Beast goes mad and leaves because Belle won't go down to dinner with him, you can see on [...]	D
"Beauty and the Beast" opened on Broadway at the Palace Theater on April 18, 1994 starring Terrence [...]	D
In the French release, Cogsworth's name is Big Ben, after the famous bell in the Elizabeth Clock Tow [...]	D
Jackie Chan performed the voice acting and singing for the Beast in the Chinese (Mandarin) dub of th [...]	D
Early in the film, Lumiere and Mrs. Potts criticize the Beast for failing to properly romance Belle. [...]	D
According to animator Glen Keane, Beast is a combination of seven different animals: the mane of a l [...]	D
Paige O'Hara sobbed real tears while recording Belle's mourning of Beast. Her performance was so int [...]	D
When Gaston is introduced in the film, LeFou claims that no beast alive stands a chance against Gast [...]	D
According to Lefou's description of him, Gaston is the town's "kingpin", the chief person. Whether t [...]	D
This movie depicts Belle as being an only child, or at least makes no mention of her having siblings [...]	D
Casting of the Beast was a true challenge, considering the fact that directors Gary Trousdale and Ki [...]	D
The role of Cogsworth was written specifically with John Cleese in mind, but he turned it down.	D
None of the film's characters received full names. Most of the characters are known only by their fi [...]	D
Belle's name means "beautiful" in French (not "beauty" which is said "beautÃ©" in French). Her com [...]	D
One of the concept artworks for Beast bore a large resemblance to the character of the same name fro [...]	D
If you look carefully during the famous ballroom scene, you can see a grand piano. In the 2017 live- [...]	D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be nominated for Best Song, it earned three nominat [...]	D
Throughout the movie, Maurice's socks are mismatched (one striped, one solid color), a sign of his e [...]	D
The song 'Be Our Guest' was originally supposed to be sung to Maurice instead of Belle, but Bruce Wo [...]	D
(June 2008) Ranked number seven on the American Film Institute's list of the ten greatest movies in [...]	D
The curse on Beast requires him to be worthy of pure love, without any emphasis on exterior beauty. [...]	D
Disney's 30th animated feature film.	D
Because Chip was alive when the enchantress cursed the Beast's Castle, it is likely that he did not [...]	D
Almost the entire cast were stars of Broadway musicals (most notably Dame Angela Lansbury and Jerry [...]	D
Donny Osmond and Patrick Swayze were considered for the role of Gaston. Osmond played Gaston in the [...]	D
The line in the opening scene "If he could learn to love another, and earn HER love in return" was i [...]	D
In the first song, where Belle sings in the town, she sits by a fountain. As she reads the book (des [...]	D
It is very possible the Prince while a beast was gradually transforming into a full beast until he r [...]	D
Gaston's lynch mob are portrayed as crusader-like in style. While setting out for a murderous campai [...]	D
Dame Angela Lansbury recorded her lines during breaks of La signora in giallo (1984).	D
By the time Alan Menken and Howard Ashman won an Academy Award for Best Original Song (for the song [...]	D
When Gaston is falling at the end, there is close-up of his eyes. For two frames, a tiny skull flash [...]	D
Gaston's unrequited love for Belle in the film was intended as a satire of "love at first sight". As [...]	D
Ron Clements and John Musker turned down the chance to direct this movie citing exhaustion from work [...]	D
Gaston and LeFou were drawn to resemble their respective voice actors Richard White and Jesse Corti	D
When Maurice and Felipe are trying to find their way in the woods, the sign post that they come upon [...]	D
Although Chip and his siblings are implied to be of English descent (due to their mother's accent an [...]	D
Viewers have repeatedly commented on a supposed inconsistency that occurs in this movie, of Beast ha [...]	D
Many people believe that the Prince was cursed as a child and that the rose will bloom until his twe [...]	D
The Beast is the first male protagonist to not "save" his female counterpart near the movie's climax [...]	D
The first Disney animated movie to be dubbed in Spain. Previously, most had been dubbed in Mexico fo [...]	D
Until Disney/Pixar's Up (2009) was nominated in 2010, this was the only animated movie to be nominat [...]	D
The first song of the movie, "Belle", has her express her fantasies, "Oh, isn't this amazing. It's m [...]	D
Tim Curry was considered to voice The Beast. He later voiced Lord Forte in La bella e la bestia - Un [...]	D
While his true name is never mentioned in the media franchise, it has been confirmed by the CD-ROM t [...]	D
Caricatures of directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise can be seen in the scene where Belle is given [...]	D
Halfway through the film, Belle's eyes shift to a lighter shade of brown. This is to signify when Be [...]	D
In the film, the Beast's magic mirror allows him to spy on Belle's movements even when she is in a d [...]	D
Robby Benson's voice was altered by the growls of real panthers and lions so that it is virtually un [...]	D
Actress Jodi Benson who voiced Ariel in La sirenetta (1989) was actually the studios first choice fo [...]	D
Walt Disney Animation Studios' last musical movie in which all of the voice actors and actresses per [...]	D
The number of magical objects in the Beast's Castle would suggest that the castle had employed a rid [...]	D
Rob Minkoff was approached to be the director, but the studio turned him down because he wanted comp [...]	D
According to a song which voices the thoughts of the castle's servants, they all view Belle as the l [...]	D
This was the first Disney animated movie to use a fully-developed script prior to animation. The sto [...]	D
The title song has a 4:4 time signature, with every first measure consisting of four quarter notes, [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of the Top 100 America's Greatest Love Story [...]	D
The majority of the sculptures seen in the castle are different earlier versions of the Beast.	D
Belle is the only Disney Princess who doesn't wear her signature dress for a huge chunk of the film. [...]	D
When Beast and Gaston are having their life-or-death struggle on the castle during the climax, Gasto [...]	D
While giving Belle a tour of the castle, Cogsworth proudly speaks of a Rococo design included in its [...]	D
when Belle sings "True that he's no Prince Charming but there's something in him that I simply didn' [...]	D
"Gaston", the song sung in the tavern, originally ended with Lefou trying to spell out Gaston's name [...]	D
When Belle first becomes Beast's prisoner, he warns her to never go to the west wing. Belle not only [...]	D
This movie was previewed at the New York Film Festival in September 1991 in a "Work-In-Progress" for [...]	D
In early versions of the script, Lefou was based more on comedian Woody Allen, and the studio was ho [...]	D
Many scenes were storyboarded but never animated. Those include a scene where Gaston visits the asyl [...]	D
Every line from the title song has exactly five syllables.	D
The second Disney animated movie to use their proprietary CAPS (Computer Animation Production System [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of the top 100 America's Greatest Music in th [...]	D
Maurice was originally going to have a song called "The Invention Convention". However, this scene w [...]	D
Ranked at #34 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions list, one of the only two animated films featured on [...]	D
The character Gaston was pictured on one of ten U.S. non-denominated commemorative postage stamps ce [...]	D
The first Disney animated movie to have a pop version of the main song play over the end credits.	D
The character of Gaston was not in the original fairy tale of "Beauty and the Beast". Rather, he was [...]	D
Paige O'Hara was in her early thirties when she voiced the much-younger Belle.	D
Gaston and the Beast were drawn to have physical similarities to each other. They are both very tall [...]	D
Human Lumiere has red hair in this movie, but some books depict him with either blond, white, brown, [...]	D
Cast members Jerry Orbach (Lumiere), David Ogden Stiers (Cogsworth), and Jo Anne Worley (Wardrobe) h [...]	D
Howard Ashman had written two songs for Beast to develop his character more. However, this idea was [...]	D
In "The Mob Song", when Gaston sings "Screw your courage to the sticking place", this is a reference [...]	D
Rupert Everett auditioned for the role of Gaston, but was told by the directors he didn't sound arro [...]	D
The first Disney animated movie to use fully rendered and textured 3-D CGI moving backgrounds in com [...]	D
The prologue states that the rose will bloom until the Prince is twenty-one. Later, in "Be Our Guest [...]	D
In the ending credits of the 3-D re-release, instead of a black background, they added in rough anim [...]	D
Walt Disney tried to adapt it in the 30's and 50's but it never took off,	D
Dame Julie Andrews from Mary Poppins (1964) was considered for the role of Mrs. Potts, prior to it b [...]	D
If you look closely at the page of the book that Belle is holding during "Belle" as she is sitting a [...]	D
Several animals were studied and observed during the process of animating Beast, such as wildebeests [...]	D
If you pause the movie at 29:34, During the Gaston number, you can see the following animal heads fr [...]	D
In his teacup form, Chip has a chip on his head. As a human, this manifests as a chipped tooth, whic [...]	D
During the villagers' attack on the Beast's castle when the furniture fights back, a dresser wieldin [...]	D
Linda Woolverton drew her inspiration for the screenplay not from Jean Cocteau's La bella e la besti [...]	D
Belle is the only person in her village who wears the color blue. This serves to set her apart from [...]	D
Glen Keane, the supervising animator for Beast, had pitched the idea that Beast stay in his true for [...]	D
Belle's horse was called Philippe. This name (and other variants of Phillip) means "lover of horses" [...]	D
CÃ©line Dion was initially skeptical about recording the pop version of "Beauty and the Beast" at [...]	D
The style of Lefou's design is in the tradition of characters including Mr. Smee from Peter Pan (195 [...]	D
The signs that Maurice comes upon when going to the fair, according to movie commentary, read from t [...]	D
When Chip turns back into his human form at the end, his form looks just like Christopher Robin, bec [...]	D
Disney was originally going to have Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel in La sirenetta (1989) also prov [...]	D
The dance between Belle and Prince Adam in the finale was actually re-used animation of the dance be [...]	D
The inaugural winner of the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature.	D
This movie was released on the same day as Universal Pictures' Fievel conquista il West (1991).	D
The fourth Disney film set in France. The first three were Cinderella (1950), Sleeping Beauty (1959) [...]	D
Alan Menken composed two different musical scores for the Beast's death scene. The original (which i [...]	D
Jesse Corti also voiced Lefou in the Latin American Spanish version of the movie.	D
Paige O'Hara, the voice of Belle, was amongst the first few artists to express an interest in record [...]	D
Angela Lansbury almost didn't record the title song due to a mix up. In order to prepare to record h [...]	D
Supervising animator Andreas Deja has said that animating Gaston is one of the highlights of his car [...]	D
An original draft for Gaston's demise was supposed to be that the wolves would kill him after surviv [...]	D
In this movie, David Ogden Stiers played Cogsworth and the narrator, and Tony Jay played Monsieur D' [...]	D
Belle's love of reading is meant to be a sign of great intelligence, a trait that had previously not [...]	D
The river seen when Belle breaks into song after refusing Gaston in marriage bears more than a passi [...]	D
This became the first movie musical to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture since All [...]	D
Glen Keane went to the Los Angeles Zoo to study animals for the Beast's looks and personality. When [...]	D
According to producer Don Hahn and directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, Beast's rage over Belle's [...]	D
Sir Ian McKellen was considered for the role of Cogsworth. He voiced and portrayed the character in [...]	D
Robby Benson (Beast/Prince Adam) also did the voice of Prince Alexander in King's Quest VI: Heir Tod [...]	D
Computer technology was considered for the rooftop fight and the forest chase, but the primitive sta [...]	D
The name of Gaston's sidekick, Lefou, is pronounced just like the French words meaning "the idiot", [...]	D
Human Cogsworth's wig is auburn in this movie. Yet, the midquel, book adaptions, and live action rem [...]	D
In Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's "The Story of Beauty and the Beast", - the original vers [...]	D
This is one of the few animated Disney productions released in the 1990s where Frank Welker didn't p [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
Songs take up twenty-five minutes of this movie and only five minutes were without any musical score [...]	D
When Gaston criticizes Belle's favorite book, he claims that it has no pictures. An earlier scene re [...]	D
Dan Castellaneta was considered for the role of Lumiere.	D
David Ogden Stiers (Cogsworth) originally auditioned for Lumiere.	D
Dame Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts) thought that another character would be better suited to sing the [...]	D
Film analysts often accuse the film of promoting Stockholm Syndrome.	D
The only movie ranked in the American Film Institute's Top 10 in the genre "Animation" to be nominat [...]	D
HIDDEN MICKEY: After Gaston and the men chop down the tree, there are three droplets of water that f [...]	D
Of the three animated movies nominated for Best Picture, this is the only traditionally hand-drawn m [...]	D
Chip originally had only one line, "Prepare to die", but the producers liked Bradley Pierce's voice [...]	D
Regis Philbin auditioned for the role of Beast.	D
During a playing of "Belle" to the animation team, story supervisor Roger Allers improvised the back [...]	D
Glen Keane, the supervising animator on the Beast, created his own hybrid beast by combining the man [...]	D
All of the dialogue spoken by Tony Jay (Monsieur D'Arque) heard in this movie was recorded during hi [...]	D

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