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Virginia Davis and the Road to Hollywood


February 16, 2012 by Michael Mallory No Comments divider image
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Several years before Mickey Mouse, little Virginia Davis was the first star of the operation that would become the Walt Disney Studios. That’s not news, of course; before her passing in 2009 at the age of 90, Virginia, who played the live action lead in Disney’s Alice cartoons of the [...]

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“Lost” Disney Film Hits Auction Block


November 28, 2011 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image
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The only known copy of Walt Disney’s film Hungry Hobos, thought lost until recently, has been rediscovered in a social history film archive in Herefordshire, U.K. and will be a highlight in the Entertainment Memorabilia auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles this December 14. The film features Mickey Mouse “prototype” [...]

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Disney Wins By a Head


July 7, 2011 by Michael Mallory 1 Comment divider image
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The name Arthur Davis may not be familiar to the casual toonhead, but not many artists had as long and productive a career in animation as Davis did. He started in animation in the 1920s at the Jefferson Film Corporation, which produced silent Mutt and Jeff cartoons. There he worked [...]

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