Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) servants' human forms. The Prince and Belle host a ball for the kingdom, where they dance happily. After the success of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937, Walt Disney sought out other stories to adapt into feature films, with "Beauty and the Beast" being among the stories he considered. Attempts to develop the "Beauty and the Beast" story into a film were made in the 1930s and 1950s, but were ultimately given up because it "proved to be a challenge" for the story team. Peter M. Nichols states Disney may later have been discouraged by Jean Cocteau having
Beauty and the Beast going back to the castle. Beauty's heart is moved by her family's overprotection, and she reluctantly agrees to stay. Beauty begins to feel guilty about trying to break her promise to the Beast and uses the mirror to see him back at the castle. She is horrified to discover that the Beast is lying dead near the rose bushes from which her father plucked the rose, and she immediately steals the ring back from her father, and uses it to return to the Beast. Once she returns to the castle, Beauty's fears are confirmed that the Beast was found murdered