The 30th Disney animated feature film Beauty and the Beast, featuring the voices of Robby Benson as the Beast and Paige O'Hara as Belle, is generally released to theaters in the U.S. & Canada. Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead and discovers her captor to be an enchanted prince named Adam. The film is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bête by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. The all-star voice cast includes Richard White (as Gaston), Jerry Orbach (as Lumiere), David Ogden Stiers (as Cogsworth) and Angela Lansbury (as Mrs. Potts). The film's music will win 2 Academy Awards and 4 Grammy Awards and Beauty and the Beast will later be the first animated film ever to be nominated for best picture.
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