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Walt Disney Is Coming To Town In 1923, twenty-one-year-old Walt Disney arrived in Los Angeles fresh from the disappointment of his first cartoon studio going bankrupt in Kansas City. He went to see his twenty-nine-year-old brothe...... Similar Editorial : Walt Disney by Neil Millar. | Source : Income Tax
Walt Disneys Horror Movie In 1934, when Walt Disney called for a meeting among his artists, a rumor had spread that he was going to shut the studio down and they would all be left unemployed during the great depression. Inste...... Similar Editorial : Horror Story Ideas by KiyaSama. | Source : Family Craft Ideas
Drunks On The Set As long as actors stay sober on the set, movie studios will generally put up with their off screen behavior. Colin Farell often showed up at six in the morning to work on Swat (2003) so hung over fr...... Source : Food Lovers Guide
Shirley Temple Stories When the Twentieth Century Pictures company had their expensive merger with the Fox Film Corporation in 1935, studio head Daryl Zanuck was depending on two contract stars to pull the new company thro...... Similar Editorial : Meet Shirley And Chad by scubaman. | Source : Dealing with Teenagers
Masters Of Disguise Gene Hackman once lamented that the worst thing about becoming a famous actor is that you lose the ability to observe people without being noticed yourself. But some performers are so good at disgui...... Similar Editorial : The Masters by Anna Woodward. | Source : Travel Tourism
When Stars Collide During the silent era it was thought a waste of money to make a movie with more than one star. Personalities like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton were considered potent enough box off...... Similar Editorial : Shooting Stars Tattoos by pilkster. | Source : Travel Tourism
Who Lives In The Star Wars Galaxy? It's hard to say where old Hollywood ended and new Hollywood began. People in the industry don't think of themselves as making history, they are just going to work. But the day in 1967 that Jack Warn...... Similar Editorial : Star Wars Battlefront by sayed islam. | Source : Travel Tourism
Its A Wonderful Movie It's A Wonderful Life (1946) began as a short story called "The Greatest Gift". Writer Philip Van Doren Stern was unable to sell it to a publisher, so he sent the tale out as a long Christmas card to...... Similar Editorial : Movie Downloads by Kristy Annely. | Source : Travel Tourism
Do You Know Who I Am? One dilemma that the super famous face is balancing the needs of privacy and recognition. One time in New York an unnoticed Marilyn Monroe was walking down Madison Avenue accompanied by Eli Wallach. ...... Source : Destination Travel
Can I Have Your Autograph? Being a celebrity means dealing with fan demands for autographs, ranging from polite and appropriate to rude and overbearing. One time Katherine Hepburn was performing on Broadway and tried to exit b...... Similar Editorial : Autograph Collecting by Lon Strickler. | Source : Destination Travel