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Movie Madness
In more Disney casting news, the daytime chat queen has signed on to lend her larynx to The Princess and the Frog, announced today. The Mouse House’s next hand-drawn offering set in New Orleans and featuring Anika Noni Rose as the lovelorn Princess Tiana, who learns that sometimes you have to kiss a frog or two before you find Mr. Right.
Winfrey, already a mama bear to millions and previously the woman behind animalistic characters in Bee Movie and Charlotte’s Web, will voice Eudora, the mother of the first black princess in Disney’s long line of lunchbox- and pj’s-ready royal heroines.
Randy Newman has penned six new songs for the 2-D film, which is due out Christmas Day next year. Can’t wait!
Que Cute! A Black Princess… YaY! Now We Need A Latina Princess Too.