<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $3 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $5.2 million (US, 1951) </Td> </Tr> <P> Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy - adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll . The 13th of Disney's animated features, the film premiered in New York City and London on July 26, 1951 . The film features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter . </P> <P> Walt Disney first attempted unsuccessfully to adapt Alice into an animated feature film during the 1930s . However, he finally revived the idea in the 1940s . The film was originally intended to be a live - action / animated film; however, Disney decided to make it an all - animated feature in 1946 . The theme song of the same name has since become a jazz standard . While the film was critically panned on its initial release, the movie proved to be ahead of its time and has since been regarded as one of Disney's greatest animated classics, notably one of the biggest cult classics in the animation medium, as well as one of the best film adaptations of Alice . </P>

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