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1887: Actor Eric Blore (Mr. Toad in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) is born in London, England. 1910: Art director, Imagineer, and Disney Legend, Marvin Davis (Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color)  is born in Clovis, New Mexico. 1913: Imagineer, and Disney Legend, Fred Joerger (3D miniature models of attractions and movie sets as well as [...]

1929: The Walt Disney Studios is incorporated and replaced by Walt Disney Productions, Ltd; Walt Disney Interprises; Liled Realty and Investment Company; and the Disney Film Recording Company. 1933: Actor Tim Conway (Apple Dumpling Gang, The World’s Greatest Athlete) is born Thomas Daniel Conway in Willoughby, Ohio. 1935: Actor George Lindsey (Herbie-the TV series, The Love Bug, The [...]

1848: Author and journalist Joel Chandler Harris (writer of the Uncle Remus stories-”Br’er Rabbit, etc”) is born near Eatonton, Georgia. 1879: Illustrator Ernest Howard Shepard (worked on the Winnie-the-Pooh books) is born in St. John’s Wood, London, England. 1888: Oldest child of Elias Disney, Herbert Arthur Disney, is born in Daytona Beach, Florida. 1910: Composer and [...]

1835: Writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens (i.e. Mark Twain) is born in Florida, Missouri. He can be found in Epcot’s American Adventure. 1901: December 5: Walter Elias Disney is born in Chicago, Illinois. 1903: Walt Disney’s only sister, Ruth Flora Disney, is born in Chicago, Illinois. 1927: Actor Robert Guillaume (Rafiki in The Lion King movies) is born in [...]

Playbill is reporting that Disney Theatrical Productions is running a free tickets for kids campaign for tickets bought between 10:00 am on December 1 through 11:59 on December 12. The tickets are good for any participating production from January 6 to March 13, 2009. The offer is only valid with the purchase of a full-priced orchestra [...]

1888: Actress Cathleen Nesbitt (Louise McKendrick in The Parent Trap-1961) is born in Chesire, England. 1911: Illustrator Paul Murry (illustrator of the Mickey Mouse comic stories between 1950-1970) is born in Missouri. 1919: Director and writer Norman Tokar (The Apple Dumpling Gang, Snowball Express, Rascal, The HOrse in the Gray Flannel Suit) is born in Newark, New [...]

  1886: Comedian Ed Wynn (Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland, Uncle Albert in Mary Poppins, Those Calloways, Son of Flubber, Babes in Toyland) is born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1891: Composer Carl W. Stalling (Musical Director for Plane Crazy, The Gallopin’ Gaucho) is born in Lexington, Missouri. 1906: Actress Hermione Baddeley (Mary Poppins, The Happiest Millionaire, [...]

1895: Director, and Disney Legend, Ben Sharpsteen (Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo) is born in Tacoma, Washington. 1896: Illustrator Gustaf Tenggren (Snow White, Bambi, Pinocchio) is born in Vastergotland, Sweden. 1910: Executive, and Disney Legend, Irving Ludwig (president of Buena Vista Distribution during his 40 years at the Walt Disney Company). 1911: Actor Leonard Slye (aka Roy Rogers) (Melody Time, Pecos [...]

1902: Actress Elsa Lanchester (Rascal, Blackbeard’s Ghost, That Darn Cat!, Mary Poppins) is born in London, England. 1911: Author Daniel Pratt Mannix IV (The Fox and the Hound) is born in Pennsylvania. 1912: Animator, Disney Legend, and one of Walt’s “Nine Old Men,” Ollie Johnston (Bambi, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Mary Poppins, The AristoCats, The Jungle Book, The Rescuers, The [...]

1880: Actor Scotty Mattraw (Bashful in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Town Crier in Babes in Toyland) is born in Evans Mills, New York. 1901: Composer, and Disney Legend, Frank Churchill (Peter Pan, Dumbo, Bambi, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”, “Whistle While You Work”, “Some Day My Prince Will Come”) is born in Rumford, [...]

1891: Director Burt Gillett (The Three Little Pigs, The Moth and the Flame, The Brave Little Tailor) is born in Elmira, New York. 1903: Director, and Disney Legend, Hamilton Luske (Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins) is born in Illinois. 1911: Producer, and Disney Legend, Bill Anderson (Disneyland TV series, The Barefoot Executive, The Apple [...]

1905: Actor Andy Devine (Friar Tuck in Robin Hood) is born in Flagstaff, Arizona. 1907: Animator, and Disney Legend, Art Babbit (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinnochio, Dumbo, and Goofy in his later shorts) is born in Omaha, Nebraska. 1910: Writer Winston Hibler (the Disneyland TV series, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan) is born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 1918: Film editor, and [...]

According to the BBC, The New York City Opera has commissioned Philip Glass (“Einstein on the Beach”) to write a new show about Walt Disney. “The Perfect American” will be an American version of Peter Stephan Jungk’s novel “Der König von Amerika.” The show is scheduled to premier in the 2012-2013 season.

The Mercury News is reporting that the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood is up for sale. The theatre, originally built in 1926 as a showcase for live plays, was restored by the Walt Disney Company to showcase their movies. The current asking price for the building is $31 million. For that price, the buyer will [...]

(News | Source: The Hollywood Reporter) Comic Book genius Stan Lee (Spiderman, X-men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, etc) has three projects in the works under POW! Entertainment which is housed by Disney. Lee hopes that these projects will turn into franchises with the first installments to explain the background behind each character. The three [...]