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The Women Who Made Early Disneyland: Artists, Entertainers, and Guest Relations de Cindy Mediavilla and Kelsey Knox (Lexington Books, 2024). 





Description de l'éditeur : 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.


Le sommaire : 

Part One: Walt Disney, A Man of His Time

Chapter 1: Walt, Women, and Early Disney Studio Culture
Chapter 2: Women and Walt’s Disneyland


Part Two: Artists, Designers, and Imagineers

Chapter 3: Mary Blair: Deceptive Simplicity, Yet Supreme Sophistication
Chapter 4: Harriet Burns: Disney’s First Female Imagineer
Chapter 5: Joyce Carlson: Dollmaker of the World
Chapter 6: Renié Conley: Dressmaking, Hemstitching, and Picoting
Chapter 7: Alice Davis: Seamstress to the Stars
Chapter 8: Dorothea Holt Redmond: An Extraordinary Place-Maker
Chapter 9: Ruth Shellhorn: Disneyland’s First Landscape Architect
Chapter 10: Leota Toombs Thomas: The “Madame” of Disney’s HauntedMansion


Part Three: Entertainers

Chapter 11: Miriam Nelson: Disneyland’s Original Choreographer
Chapter 12: Golden Horseshoe Revue’s Slue Foot Sue: Judy Marsh and Betty Taylor
Chapter 13: Submarine Voyage Mermaids: The Sirens of Tomorrowland
Chapter 14: A Trio of Tinker Bells: Tiny Kline, Mimi Zerbini, and Judy Kaye


Part Four: Guest Relations

Chapter 15: Aunt Jemima: Controversial Yet Beloved
Chapter 16: Bonita Granville Wrather: From Child Star to Businesswoman
Chapter 17: Dorothy Manes: Director of Youth Activities
Chapter 18: Julie Reihm Casaletto: Disneyland’s First Worldwide Miss Disneyland
Chapter 19: Cicely Rigdon: Disney Perfectionist
Chapter 20: Tour Guides: Diplomats, Linguists, Storytellers, and Hostesses

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