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 House of the Sleeping Beauties releases of the year. The 2011 Australian film "Sleeping Beauty", directed by Julia Leigh, uses the central premise of "House of the Sleeping Beauties" as part of its main plotline, but reverses the viewpoint. The film contains a scene in which a university lecturer is presenting on a game of Go, a reference to Kawabata's 1951 novel "The Master of Go". The literary sources for the film "Sleeping Beauty" (2011) were acknowledged and discussed in the book "Sleeping Beauty" presented to the press at the Cannes Film Festival 2011 by Screen Australia and subsequently in many interviews. These sources included