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ISBN 1-55972-174-X Everyone rememb» ator of Mickey Mouse,De Dumbo, Cinderella, Snow’ white and the Seven Dwarfs, and Fantasia. His films and characters inspired the great Disney theme parks. A creative genius, Walt Disney brought love and laughter to children everywhere. Now for the first time, Marc Eliot pre- sents the real Walt Disney. The author reveals Walt Disney’s twenty-five-year association with J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, serving as a Hollywood-based official informant before being promoted to the rank of Special Agent in Charge, rooting out Communists, subver- sives, and Jews. A lifelong anti-Semite, he absorbed his prejudice from his father, a strict fundamentalist who believed in corpo- ral punishment and forced child labor. Walt Disney’s phobic behavior is examined in detail, as is his obsessive hand- washing, heavy drinking, and sexual inade- quacies. Unwilling to accept his father’s vio- lence as a form of love, and unwilling to “prove” his own identity, he feared he had actually been adopted in infancy and was illegitimate. He spent a lifetime searching for his real mother. Marc Eliot shows how these psycho- sexual conflicts drove Walt to the depths of lifelong despair and how they found expres- sion in his “classic” animated characters and films, now so deeply embedded in American culture. In fact, they were created by a man who used the wealth and prestige they gave him to mold a sighimare empire of vengeance and power. 50. SF PUSLIC LISRARY |I ouT yH SAIN FRA NCINSCO puBTLic LIB RARiY ll ' GRAND AVENUE G SO. S.F. Pt JBLIC LIBRARY GRAND AVENUE AUG 1993 WALT DISNEY OTHER BOOKS BY MARC ELIOT Biography Death of a Rebel Burt! Down Thunder Road Nonfiction American Television: The Official Art of the Artificial TeleVisions Rockonomics WALT DISNEY Hollywood’s Dark Prince A Biography by Marc Eliot A BircH Lane Press Book Published by Carol Publishing Group Copyright © 1993 Marc Eliot All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, except by a newspaper or magazine reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review. A Birch Lane Press Book Published by Carol Publishing Group Birch Lane Press is a registered trademark of-Carol Communications, Inc. Editorial Offices: 600 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 Sales and Distribution Offices: 120 Enterprise Avenue, Secaucus, N.J. 07094 In Canada: Canadian Manda Group, P.O. Box 920, Station U, Toronto, Ontario M8Z 5P9 Queries regarding rights and permissions should be addressed to Caro] Publishing Group, 600 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 Carol Publishing Group books are available at special discounts for bulk purchases, for sales promotion, fund-raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can be created to speci- fications. For details, contact: Special Sales Department, Carol Publishing Group, 120 Enterprise Avenue, Secaucus, N.J. 07094 Manufactured in the United States of America 10987654321 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Eliot, Mare. Walt Disney : Hollywood’s dark prince / by Marc Eliot. p. cm. “A Birch Lane Press Book.” ISBN 1-55972-174-X 1. Disney, Walt, 1901-1966. 2. Animators—United States— Biography. I. Title. NC1766.U52D5328 1993 791.43’092—dc20 [B] 92-38788 CIP
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