2005:
The Chronicles of Narnia receive Golden Globe nominations for Motion Picture - Best Original Score and Best Original Song. The 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards (given by by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) will be presented in January 2006.
A special exhibit of more than 50 of Walt Disney’s original World War II insignia designs has its debut at the National Museum of the United States Air Force (six miles northeast of downtown Dayton, Ohio).
Kronk's New Groove, a direct-to-video sequel to the 2000 animated
The Emperor's New Groove, is released. (This is veteran voice actor John Fiedler's final film - as he passed away last June 2005.)
"I thought he (Walt Disney) hired me because I was such a great
singer and dancer. As it turns out, he had heard me in an interview talking about what
was happening to family entertainment. I was decrying the fact that it seemed like no holds were barred anymore in entertainment. ... He knew about the "Van Dyke Show," about our little sitcom, but that's why he called me in, because I said something he agreed with. And I got the part."
-Dick Van Dyke on how he got the role of Bert in Mary Poppins
1925:
Emmy Award-winning actor Dick Van Dyke, best known to Disney fans as
Bert the Cockney chimney sweep in the 1964 musical feature Mary Poppins,
is born in West Plains, Missouri. He hosted such TV specials as Florida's Disney Decade
(1981), Donald Duck's 50th Birthday (1984), and Walt: The Man Behind the Myth (2001). Van Dyke's Disney credits also include the features Dick Tracy, Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., and Never a Dull Moment. He has also
taken part in Disneyland's annual Christmas Candlelight Procession - in particular Disneyland's 1965 version ...
the last Candlelight ceremony that Walt Disney himself attended. (With a career spanning 6 decades, fans know Van Dyke as Rob Petrie from the 1960's TV comedy series The Dick Van Dyke Show, Caractacus Potts in the 1968
feature film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and as Dr. Mark Sloan on the television series Diagnosis Murder.) A fan of barber shop quartets, Van Dyke has his own singing group The Vantastix, who performed at the 2011 D23 Expo.
v1926:
Disney's Alice Comedy Alice's Brown Derby, starring Margie Gay, is released.
Directed by Walt Disney, Julius the cat takes part in a race riding a mechanical horse.
1941:
Actor, singer and TV host John Davidson is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
His live-action Disney credits include The Happiest Millionaire (1967) and The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968).
1955:
Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Guest Star Day with veteran funny man Morey Amsterdam, who in a few years will play the role of Buddy Sorrell on the sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show. Many years later Amsterdam will leave his handprints in front of Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park in Florida.
1957:
Actor Steve Buscemi, the voices of Wesley in Home on the Range and Randall
Boggs in Monsters, Inc. is born in Brooklyn, New York. He is slated to return to the role of
Randall for Monsters University. Buscemi's Touchstone Pictures credits include the 1988 Armageddon and the
1997 Con Air. Raised in Valley Stream (on Long Island), Buscemi was a New York City firefighter between 1980-
1984. The day after the attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001, he showed up at his old firehouse
and volunteered to work at Ground Zero. For the next week he worked 12 hour shifts digging through the rubble
in an effort to recover bodies ... anonymously. (Fans of HBO's Boardwalk Empire know Buscemi for his role of
Nucky Thompson.)
1959:
Child-actor Johnny Whitaker, who starred in Disney's 1972 Napoleon and Samantha with Jodie Foster, and Snowball Express with Dean Jones, is born in
Van Nuys, California. (TV fans may remember Whitaker for his roles on the 1960s series Family
Affair and the 1970s series Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.)
1966:
Walt's wife Lily writes his annual birthday letter to sister Ruth. Her opening words include: "As
you have probably surmised things have been a little irregular around here with Walt being ill and so your birthday
remembrance from him is a little late. I know it comes with his best wishes that your day was a nice one and the
hope that you will find something special to get for yourself with this check." Lily writes of her daughters and
grandchildren and assures Ruth that her brother will write as soon as he is back in the office. (Walt will
pass two days later.)
1971:
Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, starring Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson,
and Roddy McDowall opens in major U.S. theaters. An apprentice witch, 3 kids and a
cynical con-man search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defense of Britain during
World War II. A musical shot entirely on the Disney Studio lot in Burbank, California, the film features live-
action and animation. (It will win an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.)
Disney throw its Annual Family Christmas Party for "permanent" employees and their families at Disneyland.
1975:
Disney announces it will begin construction of EPCOT in 1976, instead of 1977 as originally planned.
2003:
Christian music performer Steven Curtis Chapman narrates Epcot's Candlelight Processional. (This yearly Epcot event recounts Christ's birth through story and song.)
2004:
Nominations are announced for the 62nd annual Golden Globe Awards.
The Disney/Pixar feature The Incredibles earns one for Best Motion
Picture - Musical or Comedy. It is also announced that Robin Williams (best known
to Disney fans as the voice of the Blue Genie in the 1992 Aladdin) will receive the
Cecil B. DeMille Award. (Winners will be announced in January 2005.)
2006:
Because Disney had a spectacular 2006, posting record revenues,
record net income, and record cash flow - The Walt Disney Company
is named SeekingAlpha's Top Media Company of the year.
Young Walt Disney and his family once lived in Kansas City (after
living in Marceline) in a very
small house at 2706 East Thirty-
first Street. Compared to the
large Marceline farmhouse, the
Thirty-first Street home had
only a tiny vegetable patch -
and no indoor plumbing!
1940:
Disney's Donald Duck cartoon Fire Chief, directed by Jack King, is released. Donald's fire
department, consisting of himself and his nephews, are unable to cope when their own building goes up in flames!
1969:
A special preview of "Disney on Parade," a touring holiday show to debut in Chicago on Christmas Day, takes place in the Long Beach Arena in California. The preview is for 8,500 underprivileged children in the Orange County and Los Angeles areas. Using a mixture of live production, sound effects, and motion pictures, 100 performers bring "Disney on Parade" to life.
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v1929:
Emmy Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer, the voice of Charles Muntz in the Disney-Pixar animated feature UP, is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Plummer is perhaps best recognized for his role of Captain Georg von Trapp in the 1965 musical feature The Sound of Music and for the role of John Adams Gates in the 2004 Walt Disney Pictures release National Treasure.
1989:
Touchstone Pictures releases Blaze starring Paul Newman and Lolita Davidovich.
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1956:
Disney's 1944 animated feature The Three Caballeros is released in the Philippines.
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"Mickey was my first introduction to humor and comedy. Mickey's character
was always visually funny to me. He was the good guy." -Dick Van Dyke
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2010:
An exclusive "Pirates Fans First!" event takes place at AMC Downtown Disney 12 theater at the Disneyland Resort. About 500 contest winners are the first to get an exclusive look at the brand-new trailer for Walt Disney Pictures Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in 3D. This is followed with a group ride on the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction!
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