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Category Archives: Dance
Marge Champion receives Lifetime Achievement Award Tonight!
Disney fans might recognize Marge Champion, ex-wife and muse of Art Babbitt, as any one of these three characters: But to the dancing public, she’s a legend for her actual on-screen appearances. And this very night, she is receiving a … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Dance, Film, miscellaneous
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Disney’s Art Models
For the Disney artists of the 1930s and early 40s, a huge credit of their exponential growth is owed to the in-studio art classes. And while teachers like Don Graham and Eugene Fleury deserve their due, this post is to … Continue reading
More Mushrooms
More of Art Babbitt to Michael Culhane, circa 1980, about Babbitt’s animation of the Mushroom Dance from Fantasia. Quoted by Michael Culhane. He told me his three stooges story, which my father told in the documentary, it comes with … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Animation, Dance, Disney, Fantasia
Tagged Acting, Art Babbitt, Culhane, troops
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Mushrooms can Dance!
When Michael Culhane was ten years old, he interviewed Art Babbitt in his family’s home, about how Art animated Fantasia’s Mushroom Dance, and he little protagonist, Hop Low. “Where did Hop Low come from?” I asked him. Mr. Babbitt told … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Animation, Dance, Disney, Fantasia, Film, music
Tagged Art Babbitt, Bill Hurtz, Culhane, Elmer Plummer, interview, Jules Engel, Mushrooms, Nutcracker Suite, Tchaikovsky
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Marge Champion, Disney and Art Babbitt
On Monday I had the honor of meeting the lovely Marge Champion in her Manhattan apartment. Marge Belcher was born on September 2nd, 1919. When she was 13 years old, she tried out as for the part of a reference … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Dance, Disney, Photography
Tagged 1930s, Animation, cartoon, cartoons, choreographer, choreography, dance, dancer, Disney, Disney Studios, divorce, Ernest Belcher, film, glamour shot, Hardie Gramatky, headshot, Hollywood, Jack Kinney, John Hubley, Les Clark, Marge Champion, model, old photographs, old photos, photography, pierre gagnine, Pinto Colvig, Roy Williams, sculpture, Snow White, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball
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Marge Champion / Marjorie Belcher
There is a lot to say about the great Marge Champion, more than I have time for tonight. I just had to post something about her because … well, … last night I had a dream that I met her. … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Dance, Disney, Photography
Tagged Art Babbitt, Marge Champion, Snow White, Women
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