2003:
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is released on DVD.
Steve Blanchard and Megan McGinnis, the stars of Disney's Broadway hit Beauty and the Beast, appear at the Lincoln Center tree lighting ceremony in New York City. They perform a special duet version of the musical's title tune.
Disney's 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure wins a DVD Exclusive Award for Best Animated DVD Premiere Movie at a gala ceremony in Los Angeles. Finding Nemo is honored for Best Menu Design, Best Games and Interactivities, and Best Deleted Scenes, Outtakes and Bloopers.
1935:
Marc Davis begins working as an apprentice animator at the Walt Disney Studios. He is immediately thrown into 2 weeks of intense drawing classes - taught by the studio's resident instructor Donald Graham. Davis will go on to become one of Walt's "Nine Old Men" and create such memorable Disney characters as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Tinker Bell and Cruella de Vil! He will later become one of Walt's original Imagineers and ultimately a Disney Legend.
1955:
The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Talent Round-Up Day.
1962:
The NBC-TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs part 1 of "The Mooncussers: Graveyard of Ships." Young Jonathan Feather (played by Kevin Corcoran) discovers the existence of a group called the Mooncussers - a gang of pirates who work at night sending out false homing signals to ships at sea. These signals force the ships to crash on the shore ... where they can be easily looted by the gang!
1965:
Disney's live-action feature film That Darn Cat!, starring Hayley Mills
and Dean Jones, is generally released. Based on the book Undercover Cat by
Gordon and Mildred Gordon, the film about bank robbers, a kidnapping and a mischievous cat - is directed by
Robert Stevenson. The cast includes Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, and Frank Gorshin. (Disney will
remake this film in 1997 starring Christina Ricci - with a cameo appearance by Dean Jones!)
1968:
Actress Lucy Liu, the voice of Mei in Disney's Mulan II, is born in Queens, New York.
1981:
Britney Jean Spears, a member of Disney Channel's
The All New Mickey Mouse Club, is born in Kentwood, Louisiana.
1984:
Twenty-year-old old Margarita Granados gives birth to a baby girl at Disneyland!
1988:
KCAL (earlier known as KHJ) Channel 9, a television station in Los Angeles, is acquired by Disney.
The Company D Cast Member store opens at Disneyland.
1990:
Actor Bob Cummings, who helped host the grand opening of Disneyland in 1955, passes away in Woodland Hills, California. (Cummings is the godson of airplane co-inventor Orville Wright!)
2001:
Disney's live musical play The Lion King opens in Hamburg, Germany.
2006:
Disney Channel is launched in Poland with the local TV premiere of The Incredibles.
Walt Disney was so passionate about trains ... that he built
a 1/8-scale railroad running
through his backyard and
among the rose gardens of
his California home!
2002:
"Santa Claus Lane," the second single from Hilary Duff's debut album
Santa Claus Lane is released. It is the theme song for the new Disney feature film The Santa Clause 2 starring Tim Allen.
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1929:
Disney's Mickey Mouse short Haunted House, directed by Walt Disney, is released. When Mickey takes shelter from a storm inside an old haunted house, he must play the organ for the ghost and
skeleton dance. It is Mickey's first ever encounter with supernatural beings!
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"Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience." -Marc Davis
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1933:
Clarence Charles Nash from Oklahoma joins Disney's studio as employee number 125. Impressed by Nash's vocal skills, Walt Disney had asked Nash to make an informal audition after first meeting him in 1932. "Ducky" Nash will be best known for providing the voice of Donald Duck.
