2007:
Randy Newman's "Our Town" (from the Disney/Pixar Cars) wins
Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual
Media at the 49th Grammy Awards. (Newman also wins an Annie on this
same evening - read below!)
Over at the Alex Theater in Glendale, California, the 34th annual
Annie Awards are handed out. Winners include Cars for Best Animated
Feature and Bambi II for Best Home Entertainment Production. Actress Eartha Kitt is
awarded for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production for her role of Yzma in
The Emperor's New School. The Annie for Music in an Animated Feature Production
goes to songwriter Randy Newman for his music in Cars. This year's Winsor McCay
Award (for recognition of lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation) goes
to Andreas Deja. He has been the supervising animator for numerous Disney characters
including Gaston, Jafar, Scar, and Lilo.
1926:
Actor Leslie Nielsen is born in Regina, Saskatchewan,
Canada. His Disney credits include the 1950s TV mini-series Swamp Fox and the 1996 comedy Spy Hard.
(Nielsen is best remembered for his comedic roles as Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun, Dr. Rumack in Airplane! and President Harris in the Scary Movie series.)
2005:
The Walt Disney Annual Shareholder Meeting takes place at
the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Disney's animated Pooh's Heffalump Movie opens in theaters. Heffalumps (fictional elephants) were first mentioned in the Winnie the Pooh stories by A. A. Milne, and later first appeared in the 1968 featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. In Pooh's Heffalump Movie, Roo discovers a playful young four-footed creature named Heffridge Trumpler Brompet Heffalump IV ... or "Lumpy" for short.
1918:
Imagineer, sculptor & Disney Legend Blaine Gibson is born
in Rocky Ford, Colorado. He created hundreds of sculptures from which Audio-Animatronics figures
and bronzes were produced for exhibits in the 1964-65 New York World's Fair and Disney theme parks
around the world. Among his contributions: Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, Pirates of the Caribbean,
the Haunted Mansion, and the Enchanted Tiki Room. Gibson also sculpted nearly all the presidents for the Hall of Presidents at WDW and the Partners Statue (found in the "hub" of the Magic Kingdom at Disneyland, Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland, and at Walt Disney Studio in Burbank, California).
1932:
The Mickey Mouse short The Grocery Boy, featuring the voices of Walt Disney (as Mickey) and Marcellite Garner (as Minnie), is released.
1938:
Disney's Donald Duck cartoon Self Control is released.
Clarence Nash provides the voice for Donald.
1949:
The Disney Donald Duck short Donald's Happy Birthday is released.
1952:
Disney's Alice in Wonderland is nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. Also nominated - Lambert the Sheepish Lion for Short Subjects,
Cartoons and Nature's Half Acre for Short Subjects, Two Reels. Winners will be announced March 20.
1970:
Variety reports that Walt Disney secretly took its movie, Song of the South out of circulation back in 1958. The publication claims the movie was pulled because of racist attitudes in the film.
Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film King of the Grizzlies to theaters. Moki (played by John Yesno), a Cree Indian, rescues a bear cub named Wahb, and develops a mystical connection between himself and the magnificent grizzly.
1979:
The Wonderful World of Disney airs part 1 of "Ride a Wild Pony."
1999:
Disney's live-action feature film My Favorite Martian premieres at the
Famous Players Colossus Center in Toronto, Canada.
2000:
Disney's The Tigger Movie - narrated by John Hurt and featuring five new songs by the team of Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman - is released. It is the first time Pooh and his friends appear in an original, theatrically-released feature film (previous Pooh features were either compilations of shorts, or made for video productions).
2002:
Twelve "Outstanding Airmen of the Year" are honored as grand marshals in a parade at Disney's Animal Kingdom. The airmen, men and women representing airbases from all over the world, spend the afternoon high atop the parade floats while hundreds of park guests cheer them on. (Every year the Air Force selects 12 individuals to represent the more than 400,000 enlisted men and women from the active duty, guard, and reserve forces. These people start the competition at their home stations, and finally win the title as "Outstanding Airmen of the Year." They hold the title for one year.)
The Walt Disney Company agrees to let Travelocity.com sell hotel reservations and theme-park tickets online. By allowing the discount-travel giant to do this, Disney hopes to expand its marketing efforts on the Internet.
Disney premieres the film Return to Never Land in Hollywood. An animated film produced by DisneyToon Studios in Sydney, Australia and released by Walt Disney Pictures, it will generally open February 15.
2003:
The Walt Disney Company receives an industry- leading 44 Oscar nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, including 13 nominations for Miramax's Chicago, 10 for Gangs of New York and 9 for The Hours, a co-production with Paramount Pictures. Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group receives three nominations for Best Animated Feature Film for Walt Disney Pictures Lilo & Stitch, Treasure Planet and Spirited Away. March 23 is Oscar night!
Sarah Litzsinger returns to the cast of Broadway's Beauty and the Beast.
Litzsinger, Broadway's longest-running Belle, takes over the role from "Sopranos" star Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who departed the production February 9.
Walt Disney Records releases Best of Power Rangers; favorite hits from all the
Power Rangers shows.
2004:
Al Weiss (the president of Disney World) speaks to the Institutional Investors at Walt Disney World during a 2-day conference.
Comcast announces its hostile bid for Disney as stock prices jump nearly 15%.
1969:
It is announced in Miami, Florida that a 3-year project agreement has been
signed between Allen Contracting Co., as general contractor, and the presidents of the 17 individual international unions, which will be involved in constructing the first phase of Walt Disney World. The contract assures continuity of contruction by making strikes and other work stoppages unnecessary.
Young Walt Disney's
first pet was a Maltese
terrier, on his
family's farm in
Marceline, Missouri.
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"It is my opinion that there is no surer way to bring about better understanding between nations than travel. Our own country, with its wealth of scenic beauty, should be the mecca of travelers from all over the world. All of us should do our best to encourage their visits here." -Walt Disney (1937)
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2011:
The animated feature Gnomeo and Juliet (based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet) is released by Touchstone Pictures. Featuring the voices of James McAvoy and Emily Blunt, it is Touchstone's first animated film since 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Mickey's Toontown Fair at Walt Disney World, a section of the Magic Kingdom that started as Mickey's Birthday Land in 1988, shuts its gates for good at the end of this day. The area is needed for the ongoing Fantasyland expansion project. The Barnstormer attraction is scheduled to remain (but with a new name and theming), but the rest of Toontown will fade into Disney history.
Main Street in Motion, a traveling experience offered by General Motors, makes a 3-day stop at Epcot. The event allows guests to test drive up to 70 different vehicles (and not have the pressure of being followed around by a sales person).
1977:
Debbie Douglas, an 11-year-old acrobat from San Diego, and Christopher
Gregory, a 13-yeard old singer form Las Vegas, are featured as Showtime Day
guest talent on episode 20 of The New Mickey Mouse Club.
1987:
Touchstone Pictures' The Color of Money is nominated for 4 Academy Awards:
Paul Newman - Actor in a Leading Role
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Actress in a Supporting Role
Richard Price - Screenplay Based on Another Medium
Boris Leven & Karen A. O'Hara - Art Direction
Oscar night is March 30.
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