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FILM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1953

Peter Pan is a animated fantasyadventure film produced by Walt Disney
and based on the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up by
J. M. Barrie. It is the 14th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series 
and was originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. Peter Pan is the final
Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt Disney’s
founding of his own distribution company, Buena Vista.

    

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DISNEY FILM DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1937

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a animated musical fantasy film produced by
Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Hollywood, followed by a nationwide release on February 4,1938, and with international earnings of $8 million during its initial release briefly assumed the record of highest grossing sound film at the time.

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FILM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1940

The animated film Fantasia was produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt 
Disney Productions. It is the third feature in the Disney animated features library
and consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music with
conductor Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Fantasia is the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound. In
1998 the American Film Institute ranked it as the 58th greatest American film 
in their 100 Years…100 Movies and the fifth greatest animated film in their
10 Top 10 list. 


 

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ANGELA LANSBURY IS 90 TODAY


Angela Brigid Lansbury was born in London, England.

Lansbury is a Golden Globe-winning actress who played Jessica Fletcher
on the Murder, She Wrote series on CBS-TV (1984-1996). She also gained
recognition for her role in the Broadway musical Mame (1966) and provided
the voice of the teapot Mrs. Potts in the 1991 animated film Beauty and the
Beast. Angela Lansbury was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the 1945
film The Picture of Dorian Gray.


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SERIES DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1962


Original series aired: September 23, 1962 to March 17, 1963.

The animated sitcom The Jetsons was produced by Hanna-Barbera and
was the first program to be broadcast in color on ABC-TV. It was Hanna-
Barbera’s Space Age counterpart to The Flintstones.

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