Crazy Facts About Disney That Will Make You Look At The Movies In A Whole New Way!

These facts will let you experience the magic of Disney movies all over again!

1. "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" was almost cut from The Lion King.

When Elton John saw the movie without the song, he told producers they needed to put it back in.

2. Aladdin was modeled after Tom Cruise and Ariel was modeled after Alyssa Milano.

3. Beyonce reportedly expected the role of Princess Tiana to be offered to her, and refused to audition for it.

The role eventually went to her co-star in Dreamgirls, Anika Noni Rose.

4. Disney Studios wanted The Beatles to voice the vultures in The Jungle Book.

John Lennon turned them down.

5. The voices of two Disney princesses make cameo appearances in Enchanted.

Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel, plays a secretary at a law firm and Judy Kuhn, the singing voice of Pocahontas appears as a mom.

6. Jennifer Lee, the co-director of Frozen is the first woman to direct a Disney animated movie.

7. James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair, who voiced Mufasa and Sarabi in The Lion King also played the king and queen in Coming to America.

8. Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor, the most well known voices of Mickey and Minnie, were married in real life.

9. Disney was once sued by a hyena researcher for defaming the character of the animals.

10. It took a whole week to film one minute of The Nightmare Before Christmas.

11. Pinocchio has the highest rating of any Disney animated feature on Rotten Tomatoes.

Chicken Little has the lowest rating.

12. There were plenty of Dwarf names that didn't make the cut into Snow White.

Some of the rejected names include Puffy, Stuffy, Shorty, Burpy, Baldy, Nifty, Sniffy, Dizzy and Deafy.

13. Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) only has 18 whole lines of dialogue, the least of any Disney Princess.

14. The first film to ever release a motion-picture soundtrack was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

At the time, the term “soundtrack” didn’t even exit. The title of the album was Songs from Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: with the same characters and sound effects as in the film of that title.

15. Walt Disney was given an honorary Oscar for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He received one normal-sized statuette and seven miniatures.