2002:
Walt Disney Records' Disneymania, featuring classic Disney songs performed by acts like 'N SYNC, Usher, Aaron Carter, Hilary Duff, and Christina Aguilera, is released in the U.S.
Disney also releases its 2001 blockbuster Monsters, Inc., on a
2-disc special edition DVD and VHS. It features an all-new animated short Mike's New Car, created exclusively for this release.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our
Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America."
Today is Constitution Day
1904:
Actor-comedian-singer & composer Jerry Colona, the voice of March Hare in Disney's
1951 Alice in Wonderland, is born Gerardo Luigi Colonna in Boston,
Massachusetts. Remembered best as the zaniest of Bob Hope's sidekicks on Hope's popular radio shows
and films of the 1940s and 1950s, Colona also lent his voice to Disney's 1950 The Brave Engineer (as the
narrator) and the 1946 Make Mine Music (narrating the Casey At Bat segment).
1917:
Disney Legend & camera effects artist
Bob Broughton is born Berkeley, California.
He will work on nearly every motion picture
from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in
1937 to The Black Hole in 1979. Broughton
will help Dick Van Dyke dance with animated
penguins in Mary Poppins by using Color Traveling Matte Composite Cinematography, an award-winning technology that combines live-action and animated actors.
1927:
Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Rickety Gin is shipped to New York distributor M. Winkler.
1928:
Actor Roddy McDowall, the voice of Mr. Soil in the 1998 A Bug's Life, is born
in London, England. His Disney live-action credits include the 1965 That Darn Cat!, the
1967 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, and the 1979 The Black Hole as the voice of V.I.N.CENT.
(Sci-fi fans know McDowall best from the Planet of the Apes series of films.)
1932:
Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon The Whoopee Party is released. Directed by Wilfred
Jackson, Mickey and his pals throw a wild party - that includes roast chickens and lamps coming to life
and joining in the chaos. The police are summoned to quiet things down ... but end up joining in themselves!
1945:
Actor Bruce Spence, the voice of Chum in the 2003
Finding Nemo, is born in Auckland, New Zealand.
1948:
Actor John Ritter (best known for his role of Jack Tripper on the late-1970s hit TV
series Three's Company) is born in Burbank, California. He appears in the 1971 Disney
live-action film The Barefoot Executive, and several Disney television specials including Mickey's 60th Birthday, The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Grand Opening, and Walt Disney World Christmas Parade. Ritter also starred in the ABC/Walt Disney Studio sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, until his untimely death in 2003.
1961:
The ABC-TV series Walt Disney Presents airs for the last time. The following week the series will be called Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color ... and air on NBC.
1995:
A Golden Horsehose Revue Reunion takes place at the Wells Fargo Theater in California. Performers Wally Boag, Fulton Burley, and Betty Taylor (who all starred in the popular Disneyland stage show) appear.
1998:
The world premiere preview of Walt Disney Theatrical Productions' musical Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida takes place at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. (Opening night will be October 7, 1998.)
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1957:
Sterling Holloway (the future voice of Winnie the Pooh) signs his first contract with the Walt Disney Music Company. The agreement ensures him star status on all recordings (unlike many of his contemporaries who perform uncredited).
2006:
Kevin Broady, 44, of Brea, California, posts a time of 1:11:31 to lead the field of more than 9,700 participants en route to victory in the inaugural Disneyland Half Marathon in Anaheim. Broady, a former Disneyland Cast Member, finishes just a minute and a half over Benjamin Gomez Gutierrez, 30, of Jalostotitlan, Mexico, who finishes second with 1:13:04!
The year 1787 over the entrance to The Hall of Presidents
(at Walt Disney World)
refers to the date the
United States Constitution
was completed.
1991:
Disney's pop group The Party release their second album In The Meantime, In Between Time on Hollywood Records. The group consists of Disney Channel Mouseketeers.
The new ABC-TV sitcom Home Improvements, starring comedian Tim
Allen, debuts. Based on Allen's stand-up comedy, the show will be one of the highest-rated
sitcoms for almost the entire decade. Among the cast ... is Jonathan Taylor Thomas - playing Randy, one of
Allen's sons. He will later be the voice of young Simba in Disney's animated feature The Lion King. The series will launch Allen's acting career which will include supplying the voice for Buzz Lightyear!
2005:
A tribute to and a celebration of Pixar's Joe Ranft (who passed away August 16) is held for a few hundred guests at the Emeryville studio.
"Joe was the Dean Martin to John Lasseter's Frank Sinatra in the Pixar Rat Pack." -actress Bonnie Hunt
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SEPTEMBER 17
THIS DAY MADE
IN THE
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2004:
Imagineer Rolly Crump is among the 11 inducted as Disney Legends.
The United States Constitution was
adopted on September 17, 1787 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"This is a big loss for us here at Pixar. But we're here to celebrate Joe, his life, his creativity, his heart. The impact he made goes way beyond the credits of the films he's worked on." -John Lasseter
2004 Disney Legends inducted
Home Improvements debuts on ABC-TV
