Mary Costa Autographs
Mary Costa (born April 5, 1930) is an American retired actress and singer. Her most notable film credit is providing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty. She is the last surviving voice actress of the three Disney Princesses created in Walt Disney's lifetime and was named a Disney Legend in 1999. She is a recipient of the 2020 National Medal of Arts.
Costa was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she lived for much of her childhood. Her parents were John (1875–1947) and Hazel (1892–1993). Of Italian descent, Costa was raised in a Baptist household and sang Sunday school solos at the age of six. At Knoxville High School, she sang in the chorus. When she was in her early teens, her family relocated to Los Angeles, California, where she completed high school and won a Music Sorority Award as the outstanding voice among Southern California high school seniors. Following high school, she entered the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music to study with famed maestro Gaston Usigli. Between 1948 and 1951, she appeared with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on the Bergen radio show. She also sang with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in concerts at UCLA, and made numerous commercials for Lux Radio Theatre.
In 1952, after meeting people at a party with her future husband, director Frank Tashlin, she auditioned for the part of Disney's Princess Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty, in Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959). Walt Disney called her personally within hours of the audition to inform her that the part was hers. In 1958, Costa was called upon to substitute for Elisabeth Schwarzkopf at a gala concert in the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Carmen Dragon. Thanks to glowing reviews from that performance, she was invited to sing the lead in her first fully staged operatic production, The Bartered Bride, produced by the renowned German producer, Carl Ebert, for the Los Angeles Guild Opera. Ebert later requested she appear at the Glyndebourne Festival, where she debuted.
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Traded items with a signature of Mary Costa
The most expensive item with a signature of Mary Costa (Mary Costa Signed Funko Aurora Sleeping Beauty Disney Autograph BAM Pop JSA COA) was sold in April 2024 for $329.99 while the cheapest item (MARY COSTA SIGNED INDEX CARD VOICE OF AURORA IN THE ORIGINAL SLEEPING BEAUTY) found a new owner for $0.59 in April 2016. The month with the most items sold (14) was December 2017 with an average selling price of $6.75 for an autographed item of Mary Costa. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2025 with $80.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.99 was July 2019. In average, an autographed item from Mary Costa is worth $9.13.
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