Howdy! On this day in 1926, the melodramatic Alice in the Wooly West rode into theaters, starring Margie Gay as the live-action Alice in the animated old west. The story opens with cowboy Julius the cat, atop his trusty steed, riding along merrily while performing exciting lasso tricks. Meanwhile that villainous evil Pete and his …
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On this day in 1926, Julius the cat drives his car and screams “War declared!” in the silent film Alice’s Little Parade. Unlike the earlier Alice cartoons, the title character is hardly in this film at all. At Julius’ urging, all the townspeople—or animals—immediately run to the recruiting station to sign up. There, we briefly …
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Dick Van Dyke has appeared in a number of popular movies and television shows throughout his illustrious career, including The Comic and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, television series including Diagnosis Murder and his own Dick Van Dyke Show and Disney films such as Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. and Never a Dull Moment. However, he is …
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On this day in 1925, Alice didn’t board an iron horse, an early term for a locomotive, but a smaller “tin pony,” in the comedy short Alice’s Tin Pony. Featuring Margie Gay as the live-action heroine in the cartoon world, this episode in Walt Disney’s Alice series sees the young leading lady and her cat …
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Disney’s California Adventure has the beautiful Hyperion Theater, Disney Publishing has its Hyperion brand of adult books, and Disneyland Paris has its Café Hyperion . . . and it all started with an event that occurred on this day in 1925. Brothers Walt and Roy Disney put down a $400 deposit on a lot to …
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Lillian Bounds was a secretary working for Walt Disney shortly after the start of the Disney company, when he became enthralled with her, and although he vowed he would not marry before he was at least 25 years old with $10,000 saved, he couldn’t resist. On this day in 1925, the two married at Lillian’s …
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Company co-founder Roy O. Disney began dating Edna Francis in Kansas City, Missouri, around 1911. “Roy and I were just going together,” she later recalled. “We stopped at a drugstore to get a soda, and Walt came to see Roy because he wanted a quarter or a half-dollar for paper to draw on. Even then, …
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Alice Solves the Puzzle, a short animated and live-action film about Alice trying to complete a crossword puzzle, arrived in theaters on this day in 1925. After the heroine of Disney’s short film series takes a short break to swim with her pal, Julius the cat, she comes “across” Bootleg Pete, an evil collector of …
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Released between 1924 and 1927, Alice Comedies are a series of 56 silent, black and white cartoons that feature a live girl, Alice, acting in Cartoonland. Walt sent out the unfinished pilot film, Alice’s Wonderland, to various cartoon distributors in New York, and one of them, Margaret Winkler, agreed to distribute the series with payment …
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Released between 1924 and 1927, the Alice Comedies are a series of 56 silent black-and-white cartoons that feature a live girl, Alice, acting in Cartoonland. Walt sent out the unfinished pilot film, Alice’s Wonderland, to various cartoon distributors in New York, and one of them, Margaret Winkler, agreed to distribute the series with payment beginning …
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