Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty song) Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty song) "Once Upon a Dream" is a song written for the 1959 animated musical fantasy film "Sleeping Beauty" produced by Walt Disney. Its lyrics were written by Jack Lawrence, and its music by Sammy Fain. The song's melody is based on the "Grande valse villageoise" (nicknamed "The Garland Waltz"), from the 1890 ballet "The Sleeping Beauty" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. "Once Upon a Dream" serves as the film's main theme, and as the love theme of Princess Aurora and Prince Philip. It is performed in the film by a chorus as an overture and
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet amid vivid imageries of bisexuality, homosexuality, ephebophilia and pony play. In 1994, the abridged audio versions of the first three books were published in cassette form. "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty" was read by actress Amy Brenneman. "Beauty's Punishment" was read by Elizabeth Montgomery (known for her role in the ABC situation comedy "Bewitched") as Beauty with Michael Diamond as Tristan, and "Beauty's Release" was by Montgomery with actor Christian Keiber reading as Laurent. A compact disc version of the audiobooks was read by Genviere Bevier and Winthrop Eliot. After the success of "Interview with the Vampire" (1976), Anne Rice