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The Women Who Made Early Disneyland
Artists, Entertainers, and Guest Relations
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2024
Summary
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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Copyright year
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-66691-054-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1055-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
284
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Walt, Women, and Early Disney Studio Culture No access
Women and Walt’s Disneyland No access
Mary Blair No access
Harriet Burns No access
Joyce Carlson No access
Renié Conley No access
Alice Davis No access
Dorothea Holt Redmond No access
Ruth Shellhorn No access
Leota Toombs Thomas No access
Miriam Nelson No access
Golden Horseshoe Revue’s Slue Foot Sue No access
Submarine Voyage Mermaids No access
A Trio of Tinker Bells No access
Aunt Jemima No access
Bonita Granville Wrather No access
Dorothy Manes No access
Julie Reihm Casaletto No access
Cicely Rigdon No access
Tour Guides No access
Conclusion No access
Appendix A No access Pages 239 - 242
Bibliography No access Pages 243 - 270
Index No access Pages 271 - 282
About the Authors No access Pages 283 - 284
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