Disney History

entertainment

Doreen was a cast member on The Mickey Mouse Club, the daily weekday variety show produced by Disney that aired in first-run syndication from 1955 to 1959. The program featured...

Theme Parks

Disney Animal Kingdom welcomed its first guests on Earth Day, April 22, 1998, followed by a public grand opening on May 1, 1998, in Bay Lake, Florida. Designed as a zoological t...

Status Updates

Jimmy MacDonald, the Scottish-born American sound designer, voice actor, and musician, died on July 1, 1991, in Los Angeles, California, at age 84. The cause was complications f...

animation history

Disney’s first character is widely recognized as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a mischievous figure introduced in 1927 through a collaboration between Walt Disney and animator Ub I...