Word: disneying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARY POPPINS. A magical London nanny (Julie Andrews) whips up some diverting fun in one of those candied, clever neverlands that Walt Disney delights...
...appears that many political analysts have overlooked the most significant reason for George Murphy's senatorial victory in California. A few days before the election. Walt Disney publicly endorsed Mr. Murphy in a full-page ad printed in major newspapers throughout the state. A vote against Murphy would have been a vote against Disney. That's like voting against apple pie. Mr. Murphy was carried into office by clinging to Mary Poppins' coattails...
Died. Jimmie Dodd, 54, impresario of Walt Disney's TV kiddie show, the Mickey Mouse Club, from its beginning in 1955 to its finale in 1959, who proved beyond doubt that youth is a state of mind by wearing his "mouseketeer" ears like a crown and praising patience, protein, and Brussels sprouts as if they were the show's sponsors; after a short illness; in Honolulu...
...Moon-Spinners. The mere notion of a juvenile suspense thriller by Walt Disney is apt to give moviegoers the heebie-jeebies. It calls up unnerving images. Seven stray cats finding their way home to a haunted castle. Donald Duck meeting Frankenstein. Hordes of psychotic chipmunks slaughtering each other for nuts. But The Moon-Spinners, filmed in picture-book color on the island of Crete, turns out to be daft and breezy escapism assigned to a cast of flesh-and-blood actors headed by Hayley Mills. Given a plot that might fit snugly into the Nancy Drew mystery series, Hayley plays...
...Hayley blithely outwits 69-year-old Pola Negri, femme fatale of the silent era. In her first film since 1943, Temptress Negri, coddling her pet cheetah aboard an improbable yacht, plays an eccentric millionairess with a passion for jewels. Her bizarre, spoofing comeback points up a new worldliness in Disney, who has obviously decided that what was grand passion for Grandpa is just good clean fun for the kids...