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Shamsian, Jacob (July 26, 2016). "Belle's 'Beauty and the Beast' gown was supposed to look totally different". Insider. Business Insider Inc. Archived from the original on October 28, 2016 . Retrieved October 27, 2016. Golembewski, Vanessa. "A Definitive Ranking Of Disney Princesses As Feminist Role Models". Refinery29. Archived from the original on February 16, 2016 . Retrieved January 20, 2014.Disney auditioned approximately 500 actresses for the role of Belle. [34] [35] They originally considered re-hiring Ariel's voice actress Jodi Benson, but ultimately decided Benson sounded too young and American for the character they had envisioned. [36] [37] Favoring a "more classical ... womanly" tone, [38] the filmmakers wanted Belle to sound closer to a woman than a girl, [14] describing her ideal voice as reminiscent of actress Judy Garland. [36] American actress and singer Paige O'Hara was working on Broadway when she first read about Disney's then-upcoming animated film Beauty and the Beast in The New York Times. [39] Upon learning that the studio was specifically scouting Broadway performers for the lead female role, [40] O'Hara immediately booked an audition through her agent. [39] Familiar with O'Hara's Broadway stint in the musical Show Boat, [41] Ashman had already been eyeing her for the role. [42] O'Hara auditioned five times, [40] first solely interviewing for casting director Albert Taveres. [38] For her next two auditions, she was simply required to mail voice recordings to Disney's studio in Los Angeles, [40] for which she sang "Heaven Help My Heart" from the musical Chess. [43] At her first legitimate in-person audition, O'Hara originally spoke and sang in a higher register than her own in an effort to mimic Snow White, but the filmmakers insisted that she use her own voice. [14] In addition to Katzenberg and Ashman, O'Hara's last few auditions were attended by directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale, producer Don Hahn, and composer Alan Menken. [40] [43] The songwriters initially listened with their eyes closed before finally watching her audition. [38] An hour after her fifth and final audition, [43] Disney telephoned O'Hara to inform her she had been cast as Belle, which happened to occur on her birthday. [44] The actress was fairly confident she had secured the role before she had officially been cast, [14] [41] to which she credits Ashman's enjoyment of her vocal performance on the Show Boat cast recording. [45] [46] Blum, Matt (January 13, 2012). "Beauty and the Beast 3D: Still a Great Film, and a Tangled Short, Too!". Wired. Archived from the original on January 16, 2015 . Retrieved January 16, 2014.

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a b "The Evolution of the Disney Princess". Girls in Capes. April 7, 2014. Archived from the original on July 16, 2014 . Retrieved February 11, 2014. Dray, Kayleigh (November 3, 2016). "Emma Watson convinced Disney to give Beauty and the Beast a feminist makeover". Stylist. Archived from the original on January 6, 2017 . Retrieved January 5, 2017. According to producer Don Hahn, Beaumont's Belle is an "incredibly passive" character, the personality of whom he likened to those of Aurora from Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Cinderella, as well as American actress and animal rights activist Doris Day, describing them as women who are "capable, but filling a role that women might fill in the 1950s and 1960s.” [58] The filmmakers painstakingly reworked Belle into a more three-dimensional character by providing her with goals and aspirations beyond romance and marriage, [58] while expanding her passive role into that of a more inquisitive heroine. [59] Determined to have Belle resemble "an unusual Disney heroine," Woolverton deliberately molded her into an independent character who is not a princess, enjoys books and has little interest in marriage, [8] and worked closely with Ashman to create a proactive heroine "who was a thinker and a reader and she wasn't about what she looked like and she wasn't a victim." [24] Although Belle being well-read is mentioned in the original fairy tale, it is hardly important to its plot. [60] Thus, Belle's passion for reading was vastly expanded upon, borrowing from both the Little Women character Jo March and Woolverton's own love of reading to further demonstrate the character's intelligence and open mind. [16] Both Woolverton and O'Hara encouraged the filmmakers to emphasize the intelligent and book-loving aspects of Belle's personality. [38] However, at times the animators struggled to fulfill Woolverton's vision. [61] Originally, Belle was depicted constantly crying throughout her imprisonment; Woolverton resented this, arguing that the character was much more likely to be either searching for an escape or simply "be intrigued that she was living in an enchanted castle" than crying. [23] "Once everybody realized she wasn't going to be this typical Disney female, they would go to the extreme ... She became bitchy"; the screenwriter argued that Belle would be "too smart" to act this way. [61] A few years older than The Little Mermaid 's Ariel, Belle's love of reading makes the character more worldly and mature than her predecessor. [62] Belle is believed by Henn to be "probably" the oldest of Disney's princesses. [63] Although multiple sources have claimed over the years that the character is 17, [64] [65] [66] Henn estimated Belle to be in her early 20’s. [67] In an interview for Vanity Fair, Paige O’Hara stated to believe that Belle was the only Disney princess to be in her 20’s. [68] The official Disney Princesses (which Belle is part of), however, are estimated to be not older than 19, with Cinderella and Tiana being the oldest members in the official Disney Princesses lineup and franchise, being both estimated to be 19. [69] [70] Design and animation [ edit ] a b Solomon, Charles (December 31, 2001). "But It Was Big Enough Already". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014 . Retrieved April 17, 2014. McConnell, Liv (September 22, 2016). "13 things you never knew about Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast' ". Revelist. Archived from the original on October 29, 2016 . Retrieved October 28, 2016.Welikala, Judith; Emily Dugan (December 16, 2012). "How Walt Disney's women have grown up". The Independent. Archived from the original on August 19, 2019 . Retrieved December 24, 2012.