Mary Costa
Birthday: 1930-04-05 Place of Birth: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Synopsis
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.
Acting
The Great Waltz
A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr.
Sleeping Beauty
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.
The Big Caper
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
A Christmas Carol
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.
Climax!
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.
