What is the name of the animated Disney film, released in 1959, that underperformed at the box office and stared a voice actress who also performed in an earlier animated Disney film in the same decade?
Maleficent Maleficent ( or ) is the antagonist of Walt Disney's 1959 film "Sleeping Beauty". She is characterized as the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" who, after not being invited to a christening, curses the infant Princess Aurora to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun sets on Aurora's sixteenth birthday. She was voiced by Eleanor Audley, who earlier voiced Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's evil stepmother, in "Cinderella" (1950). Maleficent was created by Marc Davis and is based on the evil fairy godmother from the original fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault and The Brothers Grimm.
Betty Lou Gerson Betty Lou Gerson (April 20, 1914 – January 12, 1999) was an American actress, predominantly active in radio, but also in film and television, and as a voice actress. She is best known as the voice of the villainous, selfish socialite Cruella de Vil from Walt Disney's animated film, "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" (1961) for which she was named a Disney Legend in 1996.