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Donnie Dunagan had a secret. Before he became a decorated Vietnam War veteran in the Marines, receiving a Bronze Star an...
21/02/2022

Donnie Dunagan had a secret. Before he became a decorated Vietnam War veteran in the Marines, receiving a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for his service, he was a child actor. The most famous role in his short career was the 1942 Disney classic Bambi, where he played the voice of the young deer. He never told his fellow Marines, Dunagan said in an interview, because most people thought of Bambi as "a little frail deer, not doing very well, sliding around on the ice on his belly." But he's no longer interested in hiding his past. "I love it now," he said, "when people realize, 'This old jerk, he's still alive and was Bambi.'"

Ursula the Sea Witch had many curious early prototypes. The animators briefly drew her as a manta ray inspired by Joan C...
21/02/2022

Ursula the Sea Witch had many curious early prototypes. The animators briefly drew her as a manta ray inspired by Joan Collins, and a "beautiful but deadly" scorpion fish, according to director John Musker. Eventually an animator drew a "vampy overweight matron" that the entire team agreed looked very much like the Baltimore drag queen star of such John Waters cult classics as Pink Flamingos and Hairspray. "Even though it's sort of disguised, it's based on the character [of Divine]," Musker has said.

In Disney's 1953 film version of Peter Pan, the pixie had no dialogue and thus wasn't played by an actress. The first li...
21/02/2022

In Disney's 1953 film version of Peter Pan, the pixie had no dialogue and thus wasn't played by an actress. The first living person to portray Disney's take on the character was Tiny Kline, a former circus performer from Hungaria who was just four feet ten inches tall and 98 pounds. She was the first Tinker Bell to fly over the Magic Castle at Disneyland during the evening fireworks. When she was hired in 1961, she was 71 years old, an age when most of us hope to be retired, or at least not hurtling through the air, over a castle, dangerously close to fireworks.

The big blue monster and his company's "top scarer" (voiced by John Goodman) has more than 2.3 million individual hairs....
21/02/2022

The big blue monster and his company's "top scarer" (voiced by John Goodman) has more than 2.3 million individual hairs. (The exact count, if you're one for specifics, is 2,320,413.) Animating all of those hairs was no easy task. It took approximately 12 hours for animators to create just a single frame of Sulley in action. This was back in 2001, before advances in digital animation took most of the hard labor out of bringing characters to life.

Plans were underway in late 1941 for the floppy-eared elephant to grace the cover of Time as their "Mammal of the Year" ...
21/02/2022

Plans were underway in late 1941 for the floppy-eared elephant to grace the cover of Time as their "Mammal of the Year" (a light-hearted take on their usual "Man of the Year"). But then the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese air forces shook the nation, and Dumbo was bumped from the cover in favor of General Douglas MacArthur.

He's the only mute dwarf in the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. So why can't he speak? D***y had plenty of...
21/02/2022

He's the only mute dwarf in the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. So why can't he speak? D***y had plenty of lines in the script, and the studio hired Mel Blanc, the iconic voice actor who became known for characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, to play the lovable dwarf. After recording a few tracks, Walt Disney himself wasn't satisfied and decided to cut all D***y's lines. But you can still hear Blanc's voice in the movie, however, when D***y hiccups.

If Aladdin's big, flowy white pants look eerily familiar and make you want to jump out of your seat and start singing "C...
21/02/2022

If Aladdin's big, flowy white pants look eerily familiar and make you want to jump out of your seat and start singing "Can't Touch This," it's not just your imagination. When famed Disney animator Glen Keane was struggling to figure out how to animate Aladdin's "harem" style pants, he apparently watched videos of MC Hammer dancing to get a better feel for how the pants should move, and soon his drawings began to emulate Hammer's distinctive style.

The 1995 movie Pocahontas has so many firsts, from the first Disney movie to be inspired by a true story (the second wou...
21/02/2022

The 1995 movie Pocahontas has so many firsts, from the first Disney movie to be inspired by a true story (the second would be Mulan) to the first Disney movie with an in*******al relationship. But the record it still holds is that the Pocahontas character remains, as of this writing, the first and only Disney princess with a (visible) tattoo, a red armband around her right bicep. Yes, there are plenty of tattooed characters in Moana, but not a tattooed princess.

Elsa—who, it should be noted, is 21 years old and thus the only official Disney princess that isn't a teenager—wasn't or...
21/02/2022

Elsa—who, it should be noted, is 21 years old and thus the only official Disney princess that isn't a teenager—wasn't originally meant to have a happy ending in Frozen. In the first draft, she was an over-the-top villain in the vein of Cruella de Vil, and she was definitely not related to Anna.

But when the writers heard an early version of "Let It Go," they had a change of heart and completely revamped Elsa's storyline, making the Snow Queen a character that audiences would want to root for rather than boo

Before his film debut in the short "Steamboat Wille" in 1928, the mouse that would go on to start an empire was still in...
21/02/2022

Before his film debut in the short "Steamboat Wille" in 1928, the mouse that would go on to start an empire was still in need of a name. Walt Disney wanted to call him Mortimer, but his wife, Lillian, hated the name and convinced him to call the mouse Mickey, which she said would make him more relatable. The actor Mickey Rooney claimed in his 1991 autobiography, Life is Too Short, that Disney came up with the name after meeting him in a studio cafeteria, reportedly asking the young actor, "How would you like me to name this mouse after you?" But this story has been hotly disputed.

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