Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince
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| Author(s) | Marc Eliot |
| Publication date | 1994 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 372 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-06-100789-7 |
| OCLC Number | 31745719 |
| Dewey Decimal | 791.43/092 B 20 |
| LC Classification | NC1766.U52 D5328 1994 |
Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince is a biography by Marc Eliot, presenting a darker picture of entertainer Walt Disney than his popular perception. Eliot alleges life-long anti-Semitism and presents, among other bases for this charge, a deleted scene from the 1933 Silly Symphony Three Little Pigs in which the Big Bad Wolf dresses as a Jewish peddler. Eliot also alleges covert employment by the House Un-American Activities Committee as a spy against Communists in Hollywood, and intense right-wing politics. For example, the book claims that Disney wore a Barry Goldwater badge when receiving the Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon Johnson just before the 1964 election and alleges that Disney refused to lower the American flag[1] at Disneyland after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The book has been sharply criticized [2] and some of the book's claims have been disputed by other authors.[3][4]
[edit] References
- ^ This tourist photo from November 29, 1963 shows flags by the Matterhorn flying at half mast., davelandweb.com
- ^ Review by Gerald Houghton, The Edge online
- ^ "Illegitimate birth?", Snopes.com
- ^ Summary of Walt Disney: The FBI Files by Richard L. Trethewey, retrieved January 2, 2008
