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Walt Disney was the legendary creator of Mickey Mouse and the Walt Disney Studios. He has brought to the screen dozens of feature-length cartoons and hundreds of animated shorts featuring all his lovable characters including Goofy, Donald Duck, Pluto, Alice, and more! Of course, he also had the foresight to create Disneyland and Disney World! He passed away in 1966 at the age of 65 AND Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby in Tacoma, Washington in 1903, in a large working class family. He got the nickname "Bing" when he was 10. He went to college, intending to become a lawyer, but he joined a local band as a drummer, and he quit school in his last year. In 1926, he was spotted by Paul Whiteman, and was hired, along with his partner, Al Rinker. Whiteman added Harry Barris, and named them the Rhythm Boys, and they were a big hit. Crosby was the star of the act, and in 1931 he split from the group, and went solo. He was the number one recording star of the 1930s, and his distinctive style of singing was dubbed "crooning". He had done some singing in movies with the Rhythm Boys at the start of the 1930s, but he soon starting playing dramatic roles in musicals, and was a natural, likable performer, and was very successful in movies in the 1930s. In 1940 he teamed with Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope for the first of the very successful "Road" movies, Road to Singapore. When the U.S. entered WWII. he added to his huge popularity by doing much entertaining of the troops. In 1942, he sang White Christmas on his radio show and used it in his movie, Holiday Inn (it would be re-used in the partial re-make of Holiday Inn, White Christmas, in 1954). In 1944 he made his greatest movie, Going My Way (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), which was followed by The Bells Of St. Mary's (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film). In 1954, he also starred in The Country Girl (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film). In 1956 he was in High Society, the musical re-make of The Philadelphia Story. Bing Crosby was among the very best selling singers of all time, and also was among the absolute biggest box office draws at the movies! There is no other singer who had as much success as he did in the movies, or vice versa! He passed away in 1977 at the age of 74.

Important Added Info: Note that this great news photo, which measures 7" x 9" [18 x 23 cm], and is dated 2/9/39, shows Walt Disney with Bing Crosby and two others, and Disney is signing a 50-year lease for what was going to become the "Madison Square Garden of the West", a stadium to be built in Hancock Park, in southern California. This is a part of history that very few people, even Disney experts, know that much about! Walt Disney had a giant year in 1938 with the release of Snow White, and he joined with his old friend Bing Crosby in hiring a team to build a stadium in Los Angeles that would be the biggest one outside of New York's Madison Square Garden. They had the man who designed the Los Angeles Olympic stadiums in 1932, and it somewhat seemed like a "sure thing", but they ran into massive opposition from the local residents, and after many months of controversy, the project was finally dropped. Of course, World War II then intervened, but then in 1953, Walt Disney revived his idea to some degree, planning a "Mickey Mouse Park" that would be next to his studio in Burbank, but again ran into massive local opposition from residents who didn't want to live next to a giant tourist attraction. Finally, in 1955, he approached the residents of Anaheim, and was able to win them over to his idea of a "Disneyland", and we all know how that worked out. But few people know about this idea he had started 17 years earlier (and one wonders if this stadium had ever been built, whether he would have ever gone on to create Disneyland?).

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