BuzzFeed features 63 facts that you may or may not know about the Disney animated classics. Here is a sampling;
1. The iconic song “Part of Your World,” was almost cut from The Little Mermaid.
5. The Jungle Book was the last animated film Walt Disney personally supervised; it was released 10 months after his death.
12. Beyoncé refused to audition for the role of Princess Tiana and expected to be offered the role. She lost the role to her Dreamgirls co-star Anika Noni Rose.
20. Idina Menzel — the voice of Elsa in Frozen — originally auditioned for a role in Tangled, but was passed over. But the recording she did for that audition, a rendition of the Beatles’ “Blackbird,” led to her getting early consideration for Frozen.
24. Producers originally wanted Sean Connery to voice Mufasa.
34. Bea Arthur was considered for the voice role of Ursula in The Little Mermaid, but it went to Pat Carroll.