Gallery 2
The Move to Hollywood
Alice Comedies:
While other moviemakers were animating characters to interact with live action, Walt had a uniquely different idea. “So I reversed it. I said, ‘That’s a new twist’ and it sold.” It was the beginning of the Alice Comedies, an ongoing series about a real girl living in a cartoon world.
Dear Mrs. Davis:
Walt landed a contract based on an unfinished film he had made earlier in Kansas City about a girl named Alice, portrayed by Virginia Davis. From it, he launched the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio with his older brother Roy, but he still needed his star to get going. So with a very persuasive letter, Walt convinced the star’s family to move out West.
It All Started with a Mouse:
Resilient after losing Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to an unscrupulous distributor in New York, Walt started toying with the idea of a mouse called Mortimer on the train ride home. His wife Lilly said, “I don’t think that would be good for a mouse’s name. Let’s call it Mickey.”
Walt Marries Lillian Bounds:
A year after Walt established the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, a lovely new inker caught his eye. A romance soon sprang up and by the following summer, Walt and Lilly were married. “I think that Dad was smitten with my mother almost immediately. It was probably mutual. It was a sweet courtship.”—Diane Disney Miller
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