Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.
Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history. Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.
Expect Magic.
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When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' "Mary Poppins," he made them a promise - one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.
Keywords: abbreviation-in-title, character-name-in-title, period-in-title, three-word-title
Where her book ended, their story began.
[from trailer]::P.L. Travers: No, no, no, no, no! "Responstible" is not a word!::Richard Sherman: We made it up.::P.L. Travers: Well, un-make it up.::Richard Sherman: [quickly hides sheet music to "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."]
[from trailer]::Ralph: Welcome, Mrs. P.L. Travers, to the city of angels.::P.L. Travers: It smells... of...::Ralph: Jasmine?::P.L. Travers: Chlorine, and sweat.
[from trailer]::Don DaGradi: Introducing, the creator of our beloved Mary!::P.L. Travers: Poppins! Never, ever just Mary. Now where is Mr. Disney?
[from trailer]::Walt Disney: Well, Pamela Travers! You can't tell how excited I am to finally meet you...::P.L. Travers: Would you mind? My name is MRS. Travers, Mr. Disney.::Walt Disney: Oh, Walt, now, you gotta call me Walt.
[from trailer]::P.L. Travers: [On Walt Disney adapting Mary Poppins] I know what he's going to do to her. She'll be cavorting, and twinkling.
[from trailer]::P.L. Travers: Stop! Mary Poppins is not for sale! I won't have her turned into one of your silly cartoons.::Walt Disney: Says the woman who sent a flying nanny with a talking umbrella to save the children?::P.L. Travers: You think Mary has come to save the children?::[Walt and the other filmmakers are stunned silent]::P.L. Travers: Oh, dear! [Walks away]
[Travers sees Disney character plush dolls in her room, including one of Winnie the Pooh]::P.L. Travers: Poor A. A. Milne.
Porter: Would you like me to unpack for you, ma'am?::P.L. Travers: Young man, if it is your wish to handle ladies' undergarments, I suggest you take employment in a launderette.
I only hope we never lose sight of one thing...
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Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.
Keywords: 1940s, actress, anti-semitism, bankruptcy, based-on-documentary, based-on-true-story, censorship, director, film-director, film-industry
Welles's Mother: Orson, come into the light. Never stand in the shadows -- you were made for the light. Always remember that.
[last lines]::Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: All stars burn out, Orson. It's the flame that counts.::Orson Welles: [toasts] To the flame.::Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: To the flame.
William Randolph Hearst: There is nothing to understand. Only this: I am a man who could have been great, but was not.
[Addressing the RKO shareholders]::Orson Welles: Good afternoon. Today a man from Germany invaded Greece. He's already swallowed Poland, Denmark, Norway, and Belgium. He's bombing London as I speak. Everywhere this man goes he crushes the life and the freedom of his subjects. He sews yellow stars on their lapels, he takes their voices. In this country, we still have our voices. We can argue with them, and we can sing, and we can be heard because we are, for the moment, free. No one can tell us what to say or how to say it, can they? Gentlemen, I am one voice; that is all. My picture is one voice, one view, one opinion, nothing more. Men are dying in Europe now, and Americans soon will be so that we can surmount the tyrants and the dictators. Will you send a message across America that one man can take away our voices? So, who is Mr. Hearst, and who is Mr. Welles? Well, Mr. Hearst built a palace of brick and mortar, and little wars and corpses piled high. Mr. Welles built a palace of illusion. It's a, what we call a matte painting, it's a camera trick, it's nothing. Nothing but a dream. Today you have the chance to let the dream triumph. Thank you.
Orson Welles: Everything I am, everything I could be is in that picture.
Orson Welles: I expected better of you, Mank.::Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: Me too, but I got used to it.
Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: What about Marion?::Orson Welles: Another animal in his zoo.::Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: That is love to him. "I love you, I built you a beautiful cage."
Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: Every man loves, Orson. Or has loved.
William Randolph Hearst: My battle with the world is almost over. Yours is just beginning.::Orson Welles: Kane would've taken the tickets.
[In the lobby, opening night]::Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: Rosebud's a sled! Rosebud's a sled.
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This highly-rated television film covers the life of American movie/TV/pop music idol Annette Funicello. The movie starts with the move of her family from New York to California, where in 1955 shy Annette becomes one of the cast of The Mickey Mouse Club. The movie covers her child stardom, her teen idol years, her singing career with big hits like "Tall Paul", her romance with Paul Anka, her classic beach party films with Frankie Avalon, and her first marriage. It also shows her large comeback in the late 1980s and her second marriage, and the day when she found out she had multiple sclerosis.
Keywords: actress, based-on-book, character-name-in-title, mickey-mouse-club, multiple-sclerosis, teen-idol
As a child, she stole your heart. Now her story will touch your heart.
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A five-minute film for The Disney-MGM Studios combining live-action and animation and featuring cameos. Made live-action directing debut with "Mickey's Audition"; a five-minute film for The Disney-MGM Studios combining live-action and animation and featuring cameos by Mel Brooks, Roy Disney, Dom DeLuise, Ed Begley Jr. and others.
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Smalltime crookster and showman Jerry Flynn is desperately searching for a new act to promote in order to save him from ruin. He meets a boy on the street who claims to have a dancing caterpillar called Curly. Flynn seizes the opportunity for fame and fortune at Curly's expense.
Keywords: caterpillar, con-trick, dancing-caterpillar, once-upon-a-time-in-the-title
It's cold outside
Seven months of suicide
I've been in
Suspended animation
Just like Walt Disney
My only love
Asks for me to wait on her
I waited
Waited but she didn't care
Just like Walt Disney
I'm just thawing out
My fingertips and toes are frozen to the bone
Give me a note before you throw me in the cold
Ring ring ring
Now I hear the phone singing
Calling Me
Telling me to start freezing
Just like Walt Disney, yeah
I'm a block of ice
My fingertips and toes are frozen to the bone
Give me a note before you throw me in the cold
Give me a note before you pick me up and throw me 'cross the sea
Why don't you please
It's cold outside
Seven months of suicide
I've been in suspended animation
Just like Walt Disney
My only love
Asked for me to wait out there
I waited
Waited but she didn't care
Just like Walt Disney
I'm just thawing out
My fingertips and toes are frozen to the bone
Give me an hour before you throw me in the cold
Ring, ring, ring
Now I hear the phone singing
Calling me
Telling me to start freezing
Just like Walt Disney, yeah
I'm a block of ice
My fingertips and toes are frozen to the bone
Give me an hour before you throw me in the cold
Give me an hour before you pick me up and throw me 'cross the sea