Then Hasbro won the Disney Princess business away from Mattel, just as Elsa from the film Frozen dethroned Barbie as the most popular girl’s toy. The estimated revenue loss to Mattel from Elsa ...

On Wednesday, Anastasia Olson, 31, posted a series of photos from her performance as Princess Belle in Disney on Ice’s rendition of Beauty and the Beast while reflecting on the “scary” injury.

Belle was, without a doubt, one of the least two-dimensional characters in the original Disney Princess line-up. She yearns for adventure in the great wide somewhere, she’d rather die an old ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In classic Disney animated films, a female character receives seven times the praise for her appearance as for her ...