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Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third film of the Disney Renaissance, Beauty and the Beast is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bête by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont.

Plot: A spoiled, selfish and unkind prince is transformed into a hideaous beast by a beautiful enchantress.
If he cannot learn to love another and earn her love in return before his 21st year the spell will never be broken and he is doomed to remain a beast for all time.
A few years after the spell was placed on him an inventor gets lost in the wood near the beast´s castle and he wanders into the castle to get shelter,he is thrown into the dungeon for being a trespasser.
At the same time in a village close by the inventors daugther Belle is harrased by the village strongman Gaston who wants Belle for his wife.
The story continues with Belle exchanging places with her fathers and lives with the Beast in his castle and starts to warm up to him.

The Name Bella a French name meaning 'Beauty', the Beast is never given a name.