1938:
presents an adaptation of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The
show is presented live from the Music Box Theatre in Hollywood, California. Walt
himself is interviewed twice during the hour-long radio presentation.
2005:
Toy Story 2: Special Edition, a 2-disc DVD package, is released.
Character actor Vincent Schiavelli passes away in Sicily, Italy. During his career he made over 120 film and television appearances including the 1995 remake of Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain. (You may recognize him from such feature films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Amadeus, and Ghost.)
1923:
Walt Disney receives a telegram from New York cartoon distributor Margaret Winkler stating that she has received his Alice Comedy Alice's Day at Sea.
1927:
Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short Rickety Gin is released.
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1932:
Newsman Dave MacPherson is born in Ithaca, New York. In July 1955 he will make Disneyland history when he becomes the first paying customer to enter the Anaheim park!
1955:
The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Fun With Music Day.
1956:
ABC-TV's Disneyland series airs the episode "Searching for Nature's Mysteries."
1995:
Disney's TV pilot "Family Values" airs.
2001:
Julie Andrews (of Disney's Mary Poppins fame) and other actors are
hailed on CBS-TV's "The Kennedy Center Honors."
Sir Nigel Hawthorne, the voice of Professor Porter in Disney's Tarzan,
dies at age 72 after battling cancer for a year-and-a-half.
2002:
Florida Governor Jeb Bush & his parents, former President George Bush & former first lady Barbara Bush, board the Disney Wonder for a 3-night cruise.
2003:
USC and Michigan (who will play the Rose Bowl on January 1)
make their first official pre-Rose Bowl appearance in Disney's
California Adventure park at the Disneyland Resort.
Today is Boxing Day
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2006:
Deborah Lew and Stephen R. Buntrock become Broadway's
newest Belle and Gaston in Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
Mickey Mouse, the Disneyland Band and fans welcome the University of
Southern California and the University of Michigan football teams for a pre-Rose Bowl salute at Disneyland. The Trojans (10-2 overall) and the Wolverines (11-1
overall) will meet in the 93rd Rose Bowl game played in Pasadena on New Year's Day.
Ron & Dawn DeFore, two of the
children of actor Don DeFore (owner of
Don DeFore’s Silver Banjo Barbecue
restaurant - at one time located in
Disneyland) once "filled in" for Walt
Disney's grandchildren during the annual
Disneyland Christmas Parade.
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2007:
Disneyland welcomes 2008 Rose Bowl contenders Illinois and Southern California football teams for a special celebration.
1953:
Disney's animated Peter Pan is released in Denmark and Norway.
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1941:
Disney's Goofy cartoon The Art of Self Defense, directed by Jack Kinney, is
released. The first short in which Goofy is shown to have multiple duplicates, he defends himself
through a history of the "manly arts."
1947:
Disney's Pluto short Pluto's Blue Note, directed by Charles Nichols, is released.
Pluto loves to sing ... but no one wants to listen!
