2005:
Actress Brooke Tansley offers her final performance as Belle in
Disney's Broadway hit Beauty and the Beast. The 14th actress to play Belle on Broadway,
Tansley has performed the role since September 14, 2004.
Disney Channel premieres Life with Derek, a new half hour comedy series
featuring Michael Seater as Derek Venturi. The series revolves around George Venturi (a
divorced man who has custody of his two sons Derek & Edwin and daughter Marti) who marries a divorced
woman named Nora (who has two daughters, Casey and Lizzie).
1917:
Versatile voice actress June Foray (famously known as the voice of
Rocket J. "Rocky" Squirrel on the animated The Rocky and Bullwinkle
Show) is born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Her Disney credits include the
sounds of Lucifer the cat in Cinderella, the voice of Hazel the Witch in the 1952 short Trick or Treat, and Peter Pan
- for which she played a live-action mermaid to serve as a reference for the animators. She is also the voice of
Grandmother Fa in Mulan and Mulan II, and Grammi in the animated TV series The Gummi Bears. In Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, Foray voiced Wheezy (the chain smoker weasel) and Lena Heyena. Foray can be heard in
the Disney park attraction Pirates of the Caribbean - as the wife of the man getting dunked!
1928:
Walt Disney's "Mickey Mouse" trademark application is granted.
1939:
Actor and master of sketch comedy Fred Willard, the voice of Melvin in the 2005
animated feature Chicken Little, and the voice of Shelby Forthright in the 2008
WALL-E, is born in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He has also voiced the character of Jack Hench in
episodes of Disney Channel's Kim Possible series and appeared on 2 episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place. (An
alumnus of The Second City comedy troupe, Willard is best known for his roles in such features as This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind, and on the hit TV sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.)
1957:
The Disneyland television series airs the episode "Four Fabulous Characters." The program features four stories about Americans who became folk heroes - Casey Jones, a railroad engineer who is borderline fanatical on punctuality; Henry Coy and Grace Martin, a couple from two feuding families; Mighty Casey of the Mudville Nine; and Johnny Appleseed.
1998:
Secrets of the Animal Kingdom, a syndicated half-hour television series, first airs.
Taped at Disney's Animal Kingdom, it is the first series produced by Walt Disney Attractions Television.
2000:
Production begins on Disney's newest live-action film The Princess Diaries in San Francisco.
2001:
The touring production of Disney's Aida opens at the Austin Performing Arts
Center located at the University of Texas. (The show will run through the 23rd.)
2004:
Marceline, Missouri (boyhood home of Walt Disney) hosts their
sixth annual Toonfest celebration.
Cameron Mackintosh's stage adaptation of Mary Poppins officially opens for a limited
engagement at the Bristol Hippodrome in Bristol, England. In previews since September 15,
the show will run through November 6 and then move to London's Prince Edward Theatre in December.
2006:
Starting this day, Disney Channel expands its weekly Mickey Mouse Clubhouse series to a daily format.
In 1935, Walt Disney was presented with a medal by the
League of Nations (whose goals included disarmament, preventing war, settling disputes between countries, & improving global welfare)
in Paris, France.
1982:
Ron Schneider (who has been appearing in the Golden Horseshoe Revue at Disneyland) arrives in Orlando, Florida to prepare fo his newest role. He has been hired to play a wizard named Dreamfinder for Epcot's Journey Into Imagination pavilion, which will debut with the new theme park on October 1. (The actual attraction Journey Into Imagination With Figment won't open until March 1983.)
1973:
Actor James Marsden is born in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He appears as Prince Edward in
Disney's 2007 feature Enchanted. (He is perhaps best known for playing Cyclops in the X-Men films.)
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1986:
Captain EO, a 3-D, 70mm, Sci-fi, fantasy, musical movie attraction
starring Michael Jackson, opens at Disneyland. Directed by Francis Ford
Coppola and executive-produced by George Lucas, the movie tells the story of Captain EO
(Jackson) and his ragtag crew of space travelers. The seventeen-minute film has cost an
estimated $30 million dollars to produce - at this time the most expensive film ever produced on a per-minute basis. Already playing at EPCOT, Disneyland is the second Disney park to present the film (it will eventually open at
Tokyo Disney in 1987 and at Disneyland Paris in 1992).
Captain EO opens at Disneyland
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2010:
Ape Pen Publishing and the 1313 Club hosts an event celebrating the incredible mechanical story of Disneyland. "Walt Disney’s Marvelous Mechanized Magic Kingdom" takes place at the Disneyland Hotel with such special guests as Kathryn Beaumont, Bob Gurr, Floyd Norman,
X Atencio and Rolly Crump. The event is hosted by actor & Disney fan Neil Patrick Harris.
1992:
Disney's Hollywood Pictures releases Sarafina! starring Whoopi Goldberg and based on the South African musical about apartheid. It is co-produced with Miramax Films.
CBS debuts Touchstone Television's newest sitcom The Golden Palace. It is a spin-off and continuation of the hit series The Golden Girls (which ended in May 1992). The series features three of the four actresses from The Golden Girls (Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty) who move out of their original home to operate an upscale hotel called The Golden Palace.
Touchstone Pictures releases the comedy feature Captain Ron,
starring Kurt Russell and Martin Short. Russell plays a sailor with a quirky personality and a
checkered past who is hired by Short to sail a yacht through the Caribbean with his family aboard.
1989:
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers debuts in syndication. The animated series, produced by Walt
Disney Television Animation and created by Tad Stones and Alan Zaslove, has been running on the Disney
Channel since March 1989.
1966:
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs part 2 of "Emil and the Detectives."
Off on a trip to visit relatives in Berlin, Germany, 11-year-old Emil (played by Bryan Russell) is robbed of what little traveling money he has. Enlisting the help of the street-wise orphan Gustav (Roger Mobley) and his band of enterprising juvenile detectives they not only track down the crook but they also uncover an elaborate plan to rob Berlin Bank!
1987:
DuckTales, an animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and based on Carl Barks' "Uncle Scrooge" comic book series, premieres.
It will run for a total of 4 seasons and 100 episodes.
1993:
Disney's newest animated television series Marsupilami debuts on CBS. Based on a fictional comic book animal created by André Franquin in January 1952, the series will last for just one season.
1963:
Daniel Kingsley Povenmire, television director, writer, producer and storyboard
artist, is born in San Diego, California. He is the co-creator of the Disney animated series
Phineas and Ferb and also voices the show's villain, Heinz Doofenshmirtz. (Prior to Phineas and Ferb, he was
a longtime director on the prime time series Family Guy, where he was nominated for an Annie Award in 2005.)
"Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the
sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella."
2011:
Disney Channel presents the world premiere of A.N.T. Farm star China Anne McClain’s music video, "Calling All the Monsters," during the one hour season two premiere of Shake It Up.
The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards is held at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, California. Among the wins for Disney/ABC:
Outstanding Comedy Series - Modern Family
Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Comedy Series / Actor - Ty Burrell (Modern Family)
Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Comedy Series / Actress - Julie Bowen (Modern Family)
Outstanding Guest Performance in a Drama Series / Actress - Loretta Devine (Grey's Anatomy)
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series - Steven Levitan and Jeffrey Richman (Modern Family)
