On this day in 1966, everything was coming up roses for Walt Disney, when he served as the Grand Marshal of the 77th Tournament of Roses Parade, in Pasadena, California. Over the years, the parade has had some of the world’s most distinguished individuals serving in that honored position; including luminaries such as Mary Pickford, …
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“While the city sleeps, every night he creeps, just surveying his domain. He roams around like he owns the town, he’s the king. He makes that plain. He knows every trick, doesn’t miss a lick when it comes to keepin’ fat . Some city slicker! No one is quicker than…” Those lyrics for the That …
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On this day in 1965, with the largest media aggregation in Florida history, Walt and Roy Disney joined Florida Governor Haydon Burns to announce their new “Florida project.” It had been publicly known that Walt had purchased great amounts of land, but what was not known was what that land was going to be used …
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On this day Disney Imagineers brought forth to Disneyland, a new attraction, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. Disney’s Audio-Animatronics® version of our 16th president first addressed audiences in the State of Illinois pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair before settling in at his new home in Main Street’s Opera House in Disneyland. In …
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When you stop and think that Mary Poppins was made without anyone setting foot in London—or even outside a soundstage in Burbank—you instantly understand the kind of visionary special-effects work on vivid display in this classic Disney film. Mary Poppins was, as Disney Legend Dave Smith says, the “culmination of years of Disney innovation. In …
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Pictured Julie Andrews and Sidney Poitier On this day in 1965, Julie Andrews accepted an Academy Award® for her role in Mary Poppins, in what became a capper for what is now a legendary Hollywood story. In London and on Broadway, Julie had played the role of Eliza Doolittle in the stage version of My …
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In the mid 1960s, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Frank De Vol, Mack David, Jimmy Van Heusen, and Sammy Cahn—some of the greatest songwriters in American history—were already household names. And Richard and Robert Sherman were pitted against them in the Best Song category at the 1965 Academy Awards® ceremony. With such worthy competition, Richard Sherman …
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On this day in 1965, Kilroy was here. Disney’s first four-part story, Kilroy, aired on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, telling the story, as Walt Disney explained, “of an ex-Marine named Kilroy, who, on his discharge from the service, decides to visit the hometown of his best friend in the Marines. Well, Kilroy arrived …
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When nature lover Roy E. Disney was granted permission to produce one of the hour-long episodes of Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color TV series, he came up with An Otter in the Family, which made a splash on this day in 1965. The story tells of a young boy who finds an orphaned baby …
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Cam Calloway, as shown in Those Calloways, which flew into theaters on this day in 1965, is a man with a dream: to one day establish a sanctuary for the geese that fly overhead during their long migration. Beloved actor Brian Keith starred as Cam in the film and is well-known to baby boomers as …
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