Larry Morey
Lawrence L. Morey (March 26, 1905 – May 8, 1971) was an American
Bambi, A Life in the Woods into the 1942 Disney film Bambi
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Career
He was born in
It is little known that Larry could only peck at the piano, due to his withered arm, but was very talented musically. Walt Disney used to say that a talented artist only had one great work in them, and would release them after he felt they had used that creativity. He said that Larry Morey was his one exception. Once Walt Disney was giving a tour of the studio to some guests, and they came upon Larry Morey leaning back in a chair with his eyes closed. Mr. Disney told the visitors to not disturb him because he was working. Larry had a great love for Japanese culture. He created a script about a cricket, set in the Japanese Edo period, that was never published. He named it Happy Mountain.In 1938 Morey collaborated with composer
Morey died at the age of 66 in Santa Barbara, California.
References
- ^ a b Biographies of Disney songwriters (in French)
- ^ a b c Biography by Sandra Burlingame at JazzBiographies.com
- ^ Hal Leonard Corp., New Illustrated Treasury of Disney Songs, p.12
- ^ William H. Young and Nancy K. Young, The Great Depression in America: a cultural encyclopedia, Volume 1, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, p.482
External links
- Larry Morey at IMDb
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