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Plot summary
A lonely widow longs for a child. A witch gives her a barley seed, and when the widow plants it, a flower grows. From the flower comes Thumbelina, a girl no larger than a thumb, and the widow raises her as her own daughter. Thumbelina loves her mother but wishes for a companion her own size. One night she sings, and Prince Cornelius, the fairy prince, hears her. He is the first person she meets who is close to her height. They ride on his bumblebee and fall in love. Mrs. Toad hears the singing and wants Thumbelina for her son Grundel, so she takes the tiny girl away into the woods. Thumbelina wants to return to her mother and to Cornelius.
Cast
- Kendall Cunninghamas Baby Bug (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Thumbelina (1994)
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- Betty White originally recorded the voice of Mrs. Fieldmouse for Thumbelina, but director Don Bluth secretly replaced her with Carol Channing without telling her, and White found out only when her lifelong friend Channing called to gush about recording the very same role.
- While Thumbelina was in production, the UK's Goldcrest Films threatened to liquidate Don Bluth's studio, Sullivan Bluth, over an unpaid $300,000 loan; the Irish High Court gave the studio time to pay, and Goldcrest withdrew its lawsuit that April.
- Songwriter Barry Manilow signed on to score three Don Bluth animated films, starting with Thumbelina and The Pebble and the Penguin; the third, a Rapunzel retelling in which Manilow was also to voice a character, was canceled.
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