Mary Costa

Mary Costa

Born: April 5, 1930
in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Mary Costa is a retired American opera singer and actress. Her most notable film credit is as the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty. She was named a Disney Legend in 1999. Costa is an operatic soprano. She is a recipient of the 2020 National Medal of Arts.

Movies for Mary Costa...

Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
Title: Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
Character: Princess Aurora (voice)
Released: September 6, 2005
Type: Movie
It's an enchanted royal tea party, and your little princess is the guest of honor! There, she can sing along with all her favorite Disney Princesses as they perform their best-loved songs. Plus, she'll be the belle of the ball as she learns wonderful dance moves and sings karaoke-style too!
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Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
Title: Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
Character: Aurora (voice)
Released: September 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Sound the trumpets and prepare for the ultimate celebration of magic, music and dreams come true! Introduce your little princess to the one special collection that features all her favorite Disney Princesses performing their most cherished songs from Disney's award-winning classics
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Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty'
Title: Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty'
Character: Self - Voice of 'Sleeping Beauty'
Released: September 16, 1997
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of Disney's Animated Classic.
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Disney's DTV Valentine
Title: Disney's DTV Valentine
Character: Princess Aurora (voice)
Released: February 14, 1986
Type: Movie
A Valentine's Day special featuring rock and roll music set to scenes from Disney animation.
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The Great Waltz
Title: The Great Waltz
Character: Jetty Treffz
Released: November 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr.
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Bing Crosby and the Sounds of Christmas
Title: Bing Crosby and the Sounds of Christmas
Character: Herself
Released: December 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Bing Crosby hosts this music holiday special featuring performances by Mary Costa, Robert Goulet, the Mitchell Boys Choir and the Crosby family.
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Title: The Don Knotts Show
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 1970
Type: TV
The Don Knotts Show was a variety program aired by NBC as part of its 1970-71 lineup. Long relegated to the role of sidekick, which he had portrayed for many years in several television series and films, Don Knotts was the headliner here. Each week, he and his guests put on standard TV variety fare of the era. Two recurring features were a skit about the effort involved in putting a weekly television series on the air, much in the spirit of The Jack Benny Show, and The Front Porch, in which Don and a guest would sit in rocking chairs and quietly discuss their philosophies of life. Notable regulars in his cast included Elaine Joyce and Gary Burghoff, who had previously portrayed "Radar O'Reilly" in the film version of M*A*S*H and was about to achieve his greatest fame in reprising that role for the television version of it.
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Title: The Jim Nabors Hour
Released: September 25, 1969
Type: TV
The Jim Nabors Hour is an American variety television series hosted by Jim Nabors that aired on the CBS television network from 1969 to 1971. Fresh from his success with Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., which put his backwoods "Gomer Pyle" character from The Andy Griffith Show in a military context, the show not only built on that success, including Ronnie Schell and Frank Sutton, two of Nabors' old co-stars, but also displayed his baritone singing voice, which had been used on the Pyle show on occasion and had gotten Nabors several gold records in the late 1960s. The show was consistently in the top thirty and performed strongly in its time slot, but fell victim to the infamous CBS "rural purge" and was axed by the network.
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Drugs: The Children Are Choosing Drugs In Our Culture
Title: Drugs: The Children Are Choosing Drugs In Our Culture
Released: January 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Examines the widespread use of drugs in American society and presents experts discussing different reasons for increased drug abuse by youth. Focuses on the varying opinions of a judge, researcher, child psychologist, minister, and drug user toward increased drug abuse. Emphasizes the need for helping children make proper choices about drugs. Highlight: JIM NABORS and unidentified woman do operatic duet to "Figaro" with lyrics changed to drug references; Jim Nabors pops pills in the sequence. ALSO: Good hippie sequence in Haight-Ashbury.
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The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies
Title: The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies
Character: Self - Singer
Released: February 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Surrounded by a mix of talented ladies, host Frank Sinatra does his thing.
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Sleeping Beauty
Title: Sleeping Beauty
Character: Princess Aurora (voice)
Released: February 17, 1959
Type: Movie
A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep that can only be awakened by true love's first kiss. Determined to protect her, her parents ask three fairies to raise her in hiding. But the evil Maleficent is just as determined to seal the princess's fate.
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The Big Caper
Title: The Big Caper
Character: Kay
Released: March 28, 1957
Type: Movie
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Co-host
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Marry Me Again
Title: Marry Me Again
Character: Joan
Released: September 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars and Bill won't marry her because he dreams of a home and babies, with himself as the sole source of income on his $65 a week. Doris has to find a way to make him change his mind.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.