'' Sleeping Beauty'' is a classic fairy tale. Sleeping Beauty or ''variant'', may also refer to:

Film

* ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (1930 film), a Soviet film directed by Georgi Vasilyev and Sergei Vasilyev * ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (1935 film), an American cartoon in the Puppetoon series by George Pal, included in '' The Puppetoon Movie'' * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1942 film), an Italian film * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1959 film), an American animated film from Walt Disney Pictures ** Aurora (Disney), the title character of the Disney film ** ''Sleeping Beauty'' (franchise), a Disney media franchise that began in 1959 with the release of ''Sleeping Beauty'' * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1955 film), a 1955 West German film directed by Fritz Genschow * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1973 film) or ''Some Call It Loving'', a drama by James B. Harris * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1987 film), a film starring Tahnee Welch * ''Sleeping Beauties'' (film), a 1999 American comedy film * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (2010 film), a film by Catherine Breillat * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (2011 film), an Australian film starring Emily Browning * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (2014 film), an American film directed by Casper Van Dien

Literature

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The Day-Dream "The Day-Dream" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson that was published in 1842. It was an expanded version of his 1830 poem "The Sleeping Beauty". It was further altered in 1848 for a dramatic performance for a private gathering with Tennyson s ...

", an 1842 poem by Alfred Tennyson, a reworking of his 1830 poem "The Sleeping Beauty" * ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (Taylor novel), a 1953 novel by the English writer

Elizabeth Taylor Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. ...

* "Sleeping Beauty" (short story), a 1957 science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (novel), a 1973 novel by Ross Macdonald *

The Sleeping Beauty Quartet ''The Sleeping Beauty Quartet'' is a series of four novels written by American author Anne Rice under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure. The quartet comprises ''The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty'', ''Beauty's Punishment'', ''Beauty's Release'', an ...

, four erotic novels (1983–2015) by Anne Rice writing under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure * ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (novel), a 2010 novel by Mercedes Lackey * ''Sleeping Beauties'' (novel), a 2017 novel by Stephen King and Owen King * ''Sleeping Beauty'', a 2004 Phillip Margolin novel

Music and theatre

Operas

* ''La belle au bois dormant'' (Carafa), by Michele Carafa, 1825 * ''La belle au bois dormant'' (Lecocq), by Charles Lecocq, 1900 * ''

Dornröschen ''Dornröschen'' (''Sleeping Beauty'') is a 1902 opera by Engelbert Humperdinck. The libretto, based on the story of Sleeping Beauty, was by fairy tale writer Elisabeth Ebeling and Bertha Lehrmann-Filhés, mother of , with a dialogue version by ...

'' (''The Sleeping Beauty''), by Humperdinck, 1902 * ''

La bella dormente nel bosco (The sleeping beauty in the woods) is an opera in three acts by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Gian Bistolfi based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty". The first version of this opera, with the title ''La bella addormentata ne ...

'', by Respighi, 1922

Other stage works

* ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood'', an extravaganza by James Planché, 1840 * ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (ballet), a ballet by Tchaikovsky, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa, 1889 * ''Prinsessa Ruusunen'' (''Sleeping Beauty''), a ballet by Erkki Melartin, 1904 *

Albums

* ''Sleeping Beauty'' (Sun Ra album) or the title song, 1979 * '' The Sleeping Beauty (Live in Israel)'' or the title song (see below), by Tiamat, 1994

Songs

* "Sleeping Beauty" (song), by Divinyls, 1985 * "Sleeping Beauty", by Brotherhood of Man from ''

Higher Than High ''Higher Than High'' is a 1979 album released by British pop group Brotherhood of Man. It was released in June and contained four singles. Background The album was released in June 1979 on Pye Records. It featured four singles, "Middle of the ...

'' * "Sleeping Beauty", by Diaura from '' Focus'' * "Sleeping Beauty", by Lene Lovich from '' Stateless'' * "Sleeping Beauty", by A Perfect Circle from ''

Mer de Noms ''Mer de Noms'' (French for ''"Sea of Names"'') is the debut studio album by American rock band A Perfect Circle. The album was released on May 23, 2000, and entered the ''Billboard'' 200 at No. 4, making it the highest ever ''Billboard'' 200 de ...

'' * "Sleeping Beauty", by Perfume from '' Level3'' * "The Sleeping Beauty", by Tiamat from ''

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Science

Kleine–Levin syndrome Kleine–Levin syndrome (KLS) is a rare disorder characterized by persistent episodic hypersomnia and cognitive or mood changes. Many patients also experience hyperphagia, hypersexuality and other symptoms. Patients generally experience recurrent e ...

or Sleeping Beauty syndrome, a neurological disorder * Nicole Delien (born 1995), woman that suffers from Kleine-Levin syndrome and is called "Sleeping Beauty" in the media * ''

Oxalis corniculata ''Oxalis corniculata'', the creeping woodsorrel, procumbent yellow sorrel or sleeping beauty, is a somewhat delicate-appearing, low-growing herbaceous plant in the family Oxalidaceae. It resembles the common yellow woodsorrel, ''Oxalis stricta'' ...

'' or Sleeping Beauty, a herbaceous plant *

Somnophilia Somnophilia (from Latin ''somnus'' "sleep" and Greek φιλία, ''-philia'' "friendship") is a paraphilia in which an individual becomes sexually aroused by someone who is unconscious.Flora 2001, p. 92. ''The Dictionary of Psychology'' categoriz ...

or Sleeping Beauty syndrome, a paraphilia * Sleeping Beauty (paper with delayed recognition) * Sleeping Beauty Galaxy or Black Eye Galaxy *

Sleeping Beauty transposon system The ''Sleeping Beauty'' transposon system is a synthetic DNA transposon designed to introduce precisely defined DNA sequences into the chromosomes of vertebrate animals for the purposes of introducing new traits and to discover new genes and thei ...

, a genetic tool for gene discovery and gene transfer

Television

* "Sleeping Beauty" (''Faerie Tale Theatre''), an episode of ''Faerie Tale Theatre'' * "The Sleeping Beauty" (''The O.C.''), an episode of ''The O.C.'' * "Sleeping Beauty", an episode of ''

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends ''Thomas & Friends'' (originally known as ''Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends'' and later ''Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!'') is a British children's television series that aired across 24 series from 1984 to 2021. Based on ''The ...

Other uses

* ''Sleeping Beauty'' (Cheech & Chong album), a 1976 comedy album by Cheech and Chong *

Sleeping Beauty (canoe) The Motorised Submersible Canoe (MSC), nicknamed Sleeping Beauty, was built by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II as an underwater vehicle for a single frogman to perform clandestine reconnaissance or attacks aga ...

, a WWII submersible electric-powered canoe for a frogman to ride * The Sleeping Beauty (wax figure), a wax figure at Madame Tussauds in London * Sleeping Beauty, Kalinga, a mountain in the Philippines *

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, a structure at Disneyland Park and Hong Kong Disneyland Park * Sleeping Beauty Mountain Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada * Sleeping Beauty Peak, a mountain in Washington state, U.S. * Sleeping Beauty Rock, Taiwan * La Bella Durmiente, Peru (Spanish for "Sleeping Beauty"), a mountain * Sleeping Beauty problem, a puzzle in probability * ''Dornröschen'' (Sussmann-Hellborn), a sculpture ("Sleeping Beauty") *Sleeping Beauty, a neologism coined by linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann as an alternative to

extinct language An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, especially if the language has no living descendants. In contrast, a dead language is one that is no longer the native language of any community, even if it is still in use, li ...

*Sleeping Beauty, a legend in the

Western Mountains The Western Mountains or Western Hills ( ''Xi Shan'') are a scenic mountain area located 12 km to the west of Kunming, Yunnan, China. They are formed by the Huating, Taihua and Luohan mountain ranges rising above the eastern and northern banks of ...

region of Yunnan, China * Francys Arsentiev (1958–1998), American mountaineer whose corpse on Mount Everest was nicknamed "Sleeping Beauty"