The Women Who Made Early Disneyland
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The Women Who Made Early Disneyland

Artists, Entertainers, and Guest Relations

  1. 295 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Women Who Made Early Disneyland

Artists, Entertainers, and Guest Relations

About this book

Although historians have begun to recognize the accomplishments of Disney Studio's female animators, the women who contributed to the early success of Disneyland remain, for the most part, unacknowledged. Indeed, in celebrating the park's ten-year anniversary in 1965, Walt Disney thanked "all the boys . . . who've been a part of this thing," even though hundreds of women had also been instrumental in designing, building and operating Disneyland since before its grand opening in July 1955.
Seeking to reclaim women's place in the early history of Disneyland, The Women Who Made Early Disneyland highlights the female Disney employees and contract workers who helped make the park one of the most popular U.S. destinations during its first ten years. Some, like artist Mary Blair, Imagineers Harriet Burns and Alice Davis, "Slue Foot Sue" Betty Taylor, and Disneyland's first "ambassador," Julie Reihm, eventually became Disney "legends." Others remain less well known, including landscape architect Ruth Shellhorn, parade choreographer Miriam Nelson, Aunt Jemima's Kitchen hostess Alyene Lewis, and Tiny Kline, who at age seventy-one became the first Tinker Bell to fly over Disneyland. This one-of-a-kind book examines the lives and achievements of the women who made early Disneyland.

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Information

Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9798216337324
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Art General
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Walt Disney, a Man of His Time
  7. Walt, Women, and Early Disney Studio Culture
  8. Women and Walt’s Disneyland
  9. Artists, Designers, and Imagineers
  10. Mary Blair
  11. Harriet Burns
  12. Joyce Carlson
  13. Renié Conley
  14. Alice Davis
  15. Dorothea Holt Redmond
  16. Ruth Shellhorn
  17. Leota Toombs Thomas
  18. Entertainers
  19. Miriam Nelson
  20. Golden Horseshoe Revue’s Slue Foot Sue
  21. Submarine Voyage Mermaids
  22. A Trio of Tinker Bells
  23. Guest Relations
  24. Aunt Jemima
  25. Bonita Granville Wrather
  26. Dorothy Manes
  27. Julie Reihm Casaletto
  28. Cicely Rigdon
  29. Tour Guides
  30. Conclusion
  31. Appendix A
  32. Bibliography
  33. Index
  34. About the Authors