How does Sleeping Beauty end?

In the final act ("The Dragon's Fall and True Love"): Maleficent captures Phillip, but the fairies rescue him with magical weapons. He battles through a thorn forest, defeats Maleficent's dragon form, and awakens Aurora with true love's kiss.

Sleeping Beauty (1959) — AI Story Visualization

Name: Sleeping Beauty
Genre: animation, family, fantasy, romance
Released: 1959
Rating: 6.9

Plot Analysis Summary

A princess cursed to sleep is saved by true love and a prince's bravery against an evil fairy.

Story Structure — 4 Plot Phases

The Christening and the Curse

Hidden Years and Forest Romance

The Awakening of Doom

The Dragon's Fall and True Love

Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she grows up far away, Maleficent becomes increasingly determined to seal the princess's fate.

Directed by

Clyde Geronimi

Key Cast

Mary Costa — Princess Aurora (voice)
Bill Shirley — Prince Phillip (voice)
Eleanor Audley — Maleficent (voice)
Verna Felton — Flora / Queen Leah (voice)
Barbara Luddy — Merryweather (voice)

Rating: 6.9/10 (5,517 votes)