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a b c Peggy Holmes (director) (2008). The Little Mermaid III: Ariel's Beginning. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. Making Of...The Little Mermaid Behind The Scenes". The 80s Movies Rewind. Fast-Rewind.com. Archived from the original on November 7, 2014 . Retrieved April 22, 2016. Pringle, Betsy Henry (2005). Disney Villains: The Top Secret Files. New York: Disney Press. ISBN 0-7868-3603-2. In 2007, she played the secretary Sam in Disney's live-action/animated film, Enchanted. [10] Benson also played the Queen in a one-night concert version of Rodgers & Hammerstein 's Cinderella at the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in May 2010. [11]Hill, Jim (2014-07-23). "How Glenn Casale Helped The Little Mermaid Find Her Feet After This Disney Stage Show Stumbled on Broadway". Huffington Post . Retrieved 2016-08-05. Jodi Marie Benson (née Marzorati; born October 10, 1961) [1] is an American actress and singer. She is best known for providing the voice of Ariel in Disney's 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid and throughout other films, including its sequel, prequel, and television series spin-off, as well as many other Disney works going up to the present day of the 2020s. Benson also filled in for Paige O'Hara as the voice of Belle in House of Mouse and voiced the character Barbie in the second and third films of the Toy Story franchise (1999–2010), and in the Toy Story Toons short Hawaiian Vacation (2011). For her contributions to Disney, Benson was named a Disney Legend in 2011. [2] During production of The Little Mermaid, Ursula's design evolved and transformed dramatically. Animator Glen Keane's earliest sketches of Ursula were drawn to resemble Rae, specifically based on the actress' audition for the role. [23] The short-lived casting of Stritch as Ursula and her subsequent performance eventually inspired the animators to design the character as "a tall, thin regal-looking sea witch" based on manta rays and scorpion fish, complete with a long cape. [22] At one point, Ursula had also been drawn with spikes to resemble a spinefish. [7] Ursula's appearance was largely inspired by American actor and drag queen Divine, [40] who was best known for his frequent appearances in several films directed by filmmaker John Waters. [17] Similarities were first drawn between the character and the actor after animator Rob Minkoff sketched "a vampy overweight matron", to which Ashman responded, "She looks like a Miami Beach matron ... playing Mah Jong by the pool.” [41] The character shares Divine's signature eye makeup, jewelry and body type while originally sporting a Mohawk, [41] the last of which was borrowed from the actor's Pink Flamingo s (1972) character Babs Johnson. [42] However, Minkoff had been drawing the character with a shark's tail at the time. [41] Clements eventually decided to place Ursula's head on top of the body of an octopus instead, which ultimately resulted in her current design. [3] The animators then studied the way in which octopuses move, explaining, "There was a very kind of seductive and yet scary aspect", which they incorporated into the character's own gait. [3] The Pink Flamingos-inspired Mohawk was ultimately discarded because Disney felt that the hairstyle was "too over-the-top" for the film. [42] Additionally, Ursula's face was also inspired by that of Madame Medusa from Disney's The Rescuers (1977) . [43] According to The Gospel according to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust author Mark I. Pinsky, Ursula became "the most grotesque characterization Disney ... have created for a female villain" at that time. [44] Ursula is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' animated film The Little Mermaid (1989). Voiced by actress Pat Carroll, Ursula is a villainous Cecaelian sea witch who offers a mermaid princess named Ariel a temporary opportunity to become human so that she may earn the love of Prince Eric within three days. However, Ursula is, in fact, determined to sabotage Ariel's chances so that she can ultimately usurp King Triton's position as ruler of the oceans. In this book Braswell describes Ursula's species as “cecaelia,” [98] a term created by fans in the late 2000s. [99] This was the first Disney-published work to use the name.

Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Feature Production Main article: The Little Mermaid (1989 film) For the 1989 film, many of Ariel's mannerisms were copied from Sherri Stoner's live-action performance as the character [19] Cain, Sian (August 1, 2022). "Pat Carroll, voice of Disney villain Ursula in The Little Mermaid, dies aged 95". The Guardian . Retrieved August 2, 2022. Critics singled out Carroll's performance as particularly strong in the box office hit.

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a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Hill, Jim (June 14, 2007). "Why (For) Pat Carroll wasn't actually Disney's first choice to voice Ursula in "The Little Mermaid" ". Jim Hill Media . Retrieved March 4, 2016. Review: 'The Little Mermaid' ". Variety. Variety Media, LLC. December 31, 1988 . Retrieved April 20, 2016. Wilmington, Michael (November 15, 1989). "MOVIE REVIEW: 'Little Mermaid' Makes Big Splash". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved September 14, 2014. At the behest of Disney executives Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, director and screenwriter Ron Clements was among several film-makers instructed to research new story ideas that could potentially be adapted into the studio's next major animated film release. [3] Clements first discovered Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale " The Little Mermaid" at a local bookstore, and began deliberating why Disney had never attempted to adapt the story before. [3] Clements eventually learned that Walt Disney himself had actually attempted to adapt the fairy tale into a feature-length animated film as early as the 1930s, [4] but the project was ultimately shelved due in part to its sad ending. [5] [3] Clements suggested "The Little Mermaid" to Katzenberg, who finally green-lit it after having first rejected it. [4]

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