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when was the movie beauty and the beast made
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
what is the 1991 film beauty and the beast based on
The 1991 Beauty and the Beast is based on the French fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.

Question: who is the original author of the fairy tale
Self-contained rewrite: who is the original author of the fairy tale beauty and the beast