The Princess Blog

I wanted to review the new trailer for Disney's remake of The Little Mermaid today , but sadly,  the trailer was canceled at the last minute . I'm upset about this because Aladdin  had many more official promos at this point in its release. Instead of dwelling on present frustrations, let's take a deep dive into the past and see how fairy tale princesses were treated in film before the  Disney Princess brand existed. There are a number of old movies from the '30s and '40s that feature a fantasy sequence with one of the main characters living the life of a fairy tale princess. These scenes were typically separate from the main plot of the film, separating the idealized dream of royalty a concept from  historical fact . The first princess fantasy sequence comes from the 1939 film The Little Princess  starring Shirley Temple , which is based on the book A Little Princess  by Frances Hodgson Burnett . Though the story does not actually feature any princesse...