When Walt Disney decided to adapt Eleanor Porter’s novel Pollyanna into a live-action feature film, he needed to find the perfect location for Harrington, the turn of the century town that Pollyanna would forever transform into “the glad town.” Walt found the rural charm he was looking for in Santa Rosa, California, and in the surrounding Sonoma and Napa Valleys...
"We are deeply saddened to learn of Robert Sherman’s passing. He and his younger brother, Richard, brought beautiful words and music to the world of Disney, the films and the parks alike. The whole world shares a love for their music and my father loved and respected them both..."
Throughout March, The Walt Disney Family Museum is celebrating Women’s History Month, which highlights contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Paula Sigman Lowery offers this view of the some of Walt’s most memorable female artists.
Each month, we ask a museum staff member to answer five questions about their position at The Walt Disney Family Museum, their fondest Disney memories, and personal tidbits. Today, we're asking this birthday girl (and our Evil Creative Genius) Anel Muller... what do YOU do?
National Education Association's Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children's author Dr. Seuss. NEA's Read Across America also provides NEA members, parents, caregivers, and children the resources and activities they need to keep reading.
Devoted family man Walt Disney sometimes laughingly observed that he was outnumbered at home. Surrounding him were his wife, two daughters, his devoted cook and, as Walt wryly noted, even the family dogs were female. Perhaps the predominance of women in the Disney household is one reason Pollyanna appealed to the great showman, due to its strong female characters.
As early as 1942, Walt Disney had considered the possibilities of making a live action nature film. He had gone so far as to engage in discussions with the New York Zoological Society in 1944. At this time, the Walt Disney Studio was occupied by the military, and commercial film production had given way to making military training films. With war raging, the nature film became one of many of Walt’s dreams that were put on hold for the duration...
Last week's 50th anniversary of John Glenn's orbiting the earth reminds me of something. My parents were in New York at that time, staying at the Plaza Hotel, I think. They were walking down the hall to the elevator that evening, when they passed a suite with an open door, and a group of people inside...
The Walt Disney Family Museum is celebrating the perpetual preservation of the beloved Bambi by the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry with two special screenings of the classic 1942 animated feature. Presented in our museum’s state-of-the-art digital Fantasia-themed theatre on Saturday March 3 at 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m, these screenings—and supplemental discussions—will be free with museum admission.
On Saturday February 25 at 10am, select Members were able to meet and spend time with Academy Award®-nominated producer and author Don Hahn, in the Diane Disney Miller Exhibition Hall at The Walt Disney Family Museum...