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.
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea is a 2000 Disney animated feature film and direct-to-video sequel to the 1989 animated film "The Little Mermaid". Directed by Jim Kammerud and Brian Smith, the story takes place over a decade after the original film, and focuses on Ariel and Eric's daughter Melody, a human princess who longs to swim in the ocean despite her parents' law that the sea is forbidden to her. This sequel stars the voices of Jodi Benson as Ariel, Tara Charendoff as Melody and Pat Carroll as Morgana, the film's new villain. It is the last film in the chronology of Walt Disney's version of "The Little Mermaid". It's followed by a prequel, "", a 2008 direct-to-video animated feature.