Ep. 710: Disney100 - It All Started with a Girl (and a Mouse)
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Mousetalgia celebrates Disney100 by speaking with Laurieanne Zandbergen, the daughter of Virginia Davis, who was the little girl hired by Walt and Roy Disney to perform as "Alice" for their Alice comedies on Oct. 16, 1923, marking the "official" birthday of the Walt Disney Company. Laurieanne talks about her mother's memories of working with Walt, the history of the Alice Comedies, and the importance of the role Virginia played in the formation of Walt's career. Then, we speak with Melissa Cavanagh, a very close friend of Mickey Mouse, about Mickey's career including meeting fans, staying optimistic, and ice skating. Plus - facts about mouse circuses, Mickey's Circus remembered - and more.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Mouse Sals for Monday, October 23, 2020. |
| 0:19.0 | Hang on to them hats and glasses, because this here is the wildest podcast in the wilderness. |
| 0:27.1 | This is Mousalgia. |
| 0:29.4 | Carpe Kingdom, seize the magic. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome to Mousalja, your podcast about Disneyland, Disney history, and living the Disney life. |
| 0:43.8 | My name is Jeff, and I'm going to be the host for this episode with some special guests, who I'll talk to in a little bit here. |
| 0:49.0 | But first, I want to remind you that this show is sponsored, as always, by Mouse Fan Travel, M-E-I Mouse Fan Travel. |
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| 1:18.2 | All right. |
| 1:19.1 | So this week is the first week of officially. |
| 1:23.2 | I guess you could, I don't even know if you could say officially, but Disney 100 officially happened over the past week. |
| 1:29.3 | So we are now officially into the first week of Disney's 101st year, right? |
| 1:35.2 | I guess that's how you would say that. |
| 1:36.8 | So the beginning of the Disney company was October 16 back in 1923. |
| 1:41.4 | Of course, this gives us the D23, the reason there's a club called D23. |
| 1:45.8 | If you've ever not known about that, that's because of October 16, 1923, which is the day that the Disney company considers its birthday. |
| 1:54.3 | And we're going to talk about that itself in a little bit, but I am glad that we can celebrate this along with the company. |
| 2:01.8 | It has been fascinating to watch social media over the past week, starting on October 16. |
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