History Cecil B. DeMille "discovers" Walt

[Tom Morrow]

Cecil B. DeMille "discovers" Walt Disney

Walt's Early Gig TagToonz Here's an interesting quote from Cecil B. DeMille's 1958 autobiography: 'Of course, the director-general could not individually know every one of the hundreds of people who work on a production. It was not until nearly 40 years later that I learned the identity of a youngster who was earning some $12 a week doing advertising sketches for Male and Female. I remembered how good the sketches were. They should have been good, for they were among the first work done in Hollywood by one of Hollywood's very few authentically creative geniuses, Walt Disney.' Male and Female was released in 1919, so obviously Walt wasn't in Hollywood so the above quote is inaccurate. by Mark Sonntag complete article

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