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Don Hahn

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2662 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Had Don Hahn just produced Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King he’d have earned a place in movie history—and our hearts. But over several decades he’s done so much more: writing books (like Before Ever After and Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Disney’s Magical Mid-Century), directing documentaries (like Waking Sleeping Beauty) and keeping Disney history alive. Not bad for a guy who started out as a messenger on the Burbank studio lot. Don is self-deprecating and funny but his love for Disney is true-blue, as Leonard and Jessie can attest.

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0:00.0

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0:12.4

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0:27.9

information.

0:35.8

Hi, I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton.

0:38.1

And you're listening to Malton on movies.

0:40.1

Our guest today is, well, he's a very nice fellow, and we've known him for a long time.

0:44.8

He's a nice boy.

0:46.1

We found him on the street.

0:47.6

His name is Don Hahn.

0:49.1

And it's tough to summarize what Don is.

0:51.7

But to me, Don, you are living Disney studio history. That's what you are. That's what you embody.

0:59.3

Wow, thanks. I'm happy to be that. Well, there's nothing you haven't done there. You were just set. You played with the remnants of the Firehouse 5 plus two. That is not. Yeah, it's great. Well, there's always been a studio band for a long, long time.

1:12.3

But when I started, you know, I was a drummer, and so I sat in, and Frank Thomas was still playing piano,

1:16.9

and Ozzie Nelson's brother, Don, was playing alto sax, and, you know, it was that kind of thing.

1:21.9

But it was a very small collegial studio back then.

1:24.7

This is a few years ago. I know, but it's so cool. I know. It's so cool.

1:28.6

And we're going to go through all that.

1:30.1

I mean, your headline is that you are the producer of Beauty and the Beast and the Lion King, as many others as well.

1:38.6

The not remake, live action, whatever they are, the real.

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