Gallegher is the title of a story by American author Richard Harding Davis that was published in 1891. The character Gallegher is a copy boy at a newspaper who goes on investigative adventures. In 1917, Thomas A. Edison, Inc. 's Conquest Pictures released a short film titled Gallegher: a newspaper story . The character was also used for the 1928 film Let 'Er Go Gallegher .
106-506: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color also produced several series based on the story from 1965 until 1968 including Gallegger (boy reporter) , The Further Adventures of Gallegher , Gallegher Goes West , and The Mystery of Edward Sims . Davis, who worked as a journalist as well as a writer, published Gallegher and Other Stories with Scribner's in 1891. The book has a frontispiece and five illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson . The three Gallegher television episodes from Disney led to
212-530: A day later. Enchanted aired on November 17, 2022, to promote Disenchanted , which premiered on Disney+ a day later. During the airing of Hocus Pocus , a new title card premiered bookending with the new Disney100 logo to celebrate the Walt Disney Company's 100th anniversary. Avatar aired on December 11, 2022, to promote Avatar: The Way of Water , which premiered in theaters 5 days later. Home Alone aired on December 24, 2022. To kick off 2023,
318-420: A deal with ABC (which had merged with United Paramount Theatres in 1953) on March 29, 1954. The show contained teasers for Walt's park, as well as episodes representing life in one of the park's main sections: Adventureland , Tomorrowland , Fantasyland , and Frontierland , with the opening titles used from its inception until the show's move to NBC in 1961, showing the entrance to Disneyland itself, as well as
424-458: A focus on Disney theatrical films than the English broadcasts at the time. In September 2003, The Wonderful World of Disney moved to Saturdays at 8:00 pm Eastern, with the previous Sunday time slot being ceded to AFV (which moved back to Sundays that season) and drama series in the 8:00 pm hour. Rare exceptions to the program's format occurred during this time; for example, a Little House on
530-603: A gig at the Buttery Room, a nightclub in the Ambassador Hotel West . There, she was noticed by bandleader Benny Goodman . According to Lee: Benny's then-fiancée, Lady Alice Duckworth, came into the Buttery, and she was very impressed. So the next evening, she brought Benny in, because they were looking for a replacement for Helen Forrest . And although I didn't know, I was it. He was looking at me strangely, I thought, but it
636-514: A guitarist in Goodman's band. Lee said: David joined Benny's band and there was a ruling that no one should fraternize with the girl singer. But I fell in love with David the first time I heard him play, and so I married him. Benny then fired David, so I quit, too. Benny and I made up, although David didn't play with him anymore. Benny stuck to his rule. I think that's not too bad a rule, but you can't help falling in love with somebody. ... when she left
742-510: A half-hour. It also allowed CBS to schedule 60 Minutes at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time starting on December 7; prior to this, 60 Minutes had aired at 6:00 p.m. Eastern and did not begin its seasons until after the National Football League season ended. Disney fell out of the top 30, while 60 Minutes had its ratings rise significantly. In September 1979, the studio agreed to then-NBC president Fred Silverman 's request for changes to
848-627: A host of the NBC Radio musical program The Chesterfield Supper Club . She was a regular on The Jimmy Durante Show and appeared frequently on Bing Crosby 's radio shows during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Her relationship with Capitol spanned almost three decades aside from a brief detour (1952–1956) at Decca. For that label, she recorded Black Coffee and had hit singles such as " Lover " and "Mister Wonderful". In 1958, she recorded her own version of " Fever " by Little Willie John , written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell . Lee created
954-599: A hybrid tea rose named in her honor that was pink with a touch of peach. The Peggy Lee Rose was the 1983 American Beauty Rose of the Year. In 2003, "There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee" was held at Carnegie Hall. Produced by recording artist Richard Barone , the sold-out event included performances by Cy Coleman , Debbie Harry , Nancy Sinatra , Rita Moreno , Marian McPartland , Chris Connor , Petula Clark , Maria Muldaur , Dee Dee Bridgewater , Quincy Jones , Shirley Horn , and others. In 2004, Barone brought
1060-458: A key part of the show's appeal to viewers that the host segment was dropped. The final episode featuring Walt's host segment was the episode "A Salute to Alaska". The series was retitled The Wonderful World of Disney in September 1969, by which time the color distinction was no longer needed as all big three networks were broadcasting in color. It continued to gain solid ratings, often ranking in
1166-522: A local restaurant that paid her salary in food. Both during and after her high-school years, Lee sang for small sums on local radio stations. In October 1937, radio personality Ken Kennedy, of WDAY in Fargo (the most widely heard station in North Dakota), auditioned her and put her on the air that day, but not before he changed her name to Peggy Lee. Lee left home and traveled to Hollywood, California , at
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#17328590880581272-439: A long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including "I Don't Know Enough About You" and "It's a Good Day". Her recording of "Golden Earrings", the title song of a 1947 movie , was a hit throughout 1947–1948. "Mañana", written by Lee and Barbour, was her eleventh solo hit recording, and remained on the charts for twenty-one weeks, nine of which were in the number one position. The song sold more than
1378-486: A million copies, and earned the Top Disc Jockey Record of the Year award from Billboard magazine. From 1946 to 1949, Lee also recorded for Capitol's library of electrical transcriptions for radio stations. An advertisement for Capitol Transcriptions in a trade magazine noted that the transcriptions included "special voice introductions by Peggy". In 1948, Lee joined vocalists Perry Como and Jo Stafford as
1484-558: A musical influence on other artists such as Paul McCartney , Madonna , Beyoncé , k.d. lang, Elvis Costello , Diana Krall , Dusty Springfield , Rita Coolidge , Rita Moreno , and Billie Eilish . In 2020, the ASCAP Foundation , along with Lee's family, established the annual Peggy Lee Songwriter Award. The inaugural award went to Michael Blum and Jenna Lotti for their song, "Fake ID". Lee wrote or co-wrote more than 270 songs. In addition to her own material to sing, she
1590-625: A new arrangement for the song, and added lyrics ("Romeo loved Juliet", "Captain Smith and Pocahontas"), which she neglected to copyright. Her new version of "Fever" was a hit, and was nominated in three categories at the First Annual Grammy Awards in 1959, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year . While Lee was in London for a 1970 engagement at Royal Albert Hall , she invited Paul and Linda McCartney to dinner at The Dorchester . At
1696-498: A reboot of Davy Crockett , and the musical Polly , which was based on the book Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter and the Walt Disney's 1960 film adaptation of it . New television animation came in the form of Super DuckTales —a compilation of an arc from Disney's syndicated animated series DuckTales —as an Easter special on March 26, 1989; another DuckTales special, A DuckTales Valentine , aired on February 11, 1990. In
1802-631: A regular program in 2008. At this point, the series began to shift focus toward Disney theatrical films, relying less on original television films; however, the series aired three Disney Channel Original Movies (2002's Cadet Kelly , 2008's Camp Rock and 2011's Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension , currently the only Disney Channel television films to have aired on a non-Disney Channel-branded network domestically) during its ABC run. The second ABC revival also included some family-oriented films produced by studios other than Disney under
1908-402: A regular viewing habit, gave ABC additional films from its library, including Old Yeller , The Apple Dumpling Gang and Candleshoe for the normal rerun mid-year period. The Last Electric Knight movie produced a spin-off series called Sidekicks (originally to be called Karate Kid ) for ABC's 1987 season. Despite improving ABC's numbers, the program's ratings were never strong as
2014-451: A series of theatrical movies from the Disney+ library, which featured an updated title card, which includes Moana , Thor: The Dark World , Up , and Big Hero 6 , for four weeks beginning May 20, 2020. A fifth week was later added, featuring the 2010 Disney/Pixar film, Toy Story 3 , marking ten years since its theatrical release. The program returned on September 23, 2020, featuring
2120-406: A showing of Inside Out and that the program would air weekly on Sunday nights as part of ABC's 2024-25 schedule. The Magical World of Toons was the daily prime time programming block featuring character's key series episodes coinciding with the launch of Disney's new channel, Toon Disney , on April 18, 1998. It continued at least until 2003. In 2012, Disney Junior launched a variant of
2226-571: A topic for such episodes, including clips from the actual film. Topics for "Fantasy Land" would include either actual cartoons, and animated films, or documentaries on "The Making of ..." (such as behind-the-scenes presentation of Peggy Lee singing the duet of the wicked Siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp , or the barbershop quartet of lost dogs in the municipal Dog Pound); excerpts from a True-Life Adventure documentary might also be included (for example, one on
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#17328590880582332-558: A two-hour format in 1975). Walt Disney Productions also began running some of its multiepisode television programs, such as 1962's Sammy The Way-Out Seal , as televised feature films on the anthology series. A slightly edited version of the 1954 Disney film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea made its television debut as a two-hour special on NBC in October 1976. Several other Disney films, some of them not especially successful (such as Superdad , which
2438-465: A vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman 's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music. Called the "Queen of American pop music", Lee recorded more than 1,100 masters and co-wrote over 270 songs. Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota , United States, on May 26, 1920,
2544-607: Is located at 6319 Hollywood Boulevard in California. Baseball's Tug McGraw , whose career with both the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies ranged from 1965 to 1984, named one of his pitches the Peggy Lee. He explained to The Philadelphia Inquirer : "That's the one where the hitter is out in front of it and says, 'Is that all there is? ' " In 1971, Lee sang the Lord's Prayer at
2650-544: The True-Life Adventures ). The show's continued ratings success in the post-Walt era came to an end during the 1975–76 season. At this time, Walt Disney Productions was facing a decline in fortunes due to falling box-office revenues, while NBC as a whole was also slipping in the ratings. The anthology series became even more dependent on airings of live-action theatrical features, its True-Life Adventures , reruns of older episodes, and cartoon compilations. Nothing from
2756-477: The Disney Channel . While ratings were a factor, the final decision to end the show came from Walt Disney Productions' then-CEO Card Walker , who felt that having both the show and the new channel active would result in cannibalization of viewership. The new channel would provide a home for the show in reruns for the next two decades, but for the time being, Disney's presence on U.S. network TV would be limited to
2862-562: The Disney animated features canon aired, with the exceptions of Alice in Wonderland and Dumbo , as part of a long-standing policy placed on the program by Disney. Additionally, in 1975, when CBS regained the broadcast rights to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz , it was scheduled opposite Disney , as it had been between 1960 and 1968. At that time, telecasts of that film were highly rated annual events, which largely attracted
2968-473: The Disney+ library. The show has had only two hosts, Disney co-founder Walt Disney and former Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner . The show is the second longest-running prime-time program on U.S. television, behind Hallmark Hall of Fame . The anthology series was an outgrowth of Walt Disney looking for funding for Disneyland with his brother Roy Disney approaching all the big-three networks with American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres taking
3074-636: The MC at The Jade. Her employment was cut short when she fainted onstage due to overwork and an inadequate diet. After she was taken to the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center she was told she needed a tonsillectomy . Lee returned to North Dakota for the operation. The following year, remaining in North Dakota, she was hired to perform regularly at The Powers Hotel in Fargo, and toured with both
3180-647: The Midland Continental Railroad (Jamestown, Nortonville and Wimbledon). She graduated from Wimbledon High School in 1937. Lee began singing from a young age. In Wimbledon, Lee was the female singer for a six-piece college dance band with leader Lyle "Doc" Haines. She traveled to various locations with Haines's quintet on Fridays after school and on weekends. Lee first sang professionally over KOVC radio in Valley City, North Dakota , in 1936. She later had her own 15-minute Saturday radio show sponsored by
3286-937: The Society of Singers in 1994, the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center in 1994, and the Presidents Award from the Songwriters Guild of America in 1999. Other honors include induction into the Big Band Jazz Hall of Fame in 1992, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999, and the Songbook Hall of Fame from the Great American Songbook Foundation in 2020. Lee is often cited as
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3392-510: The United States' burgeoning efforts to explore outer space and others, such as "Moochie of the Little League", were set in the then-present day. Some episodes even mixed live-action and animation, showing Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck , Goofy , Chip 'n' Dale , Professor Owl and Jiminy Cricket talking with Walt himself, while one 1959 episode (titled The Adventures of Chip 'n' Dale) turned
3498-460: The Wonderful World banner, such as The Sound of Music from 20th Century Fox ( which is presently owned by Disney, now known as 20th Century Studios ). On December 12, 2015, ABC's The Wonderful World of Disney officially returned to its anthology format with a showing of Mary Poppins for the first time on ABC since 2002, hosted by Dick Van Dyke. Van Dyke took viewers on a tour through
3604-498: The deal for programming for ABC. Although Walt Disney was the first major film producer to venture into television, two established independent film producers successfully ventured into television production before Disney, Hal Roach and Jerry Fairbanks . Disney wanted to produce a television program to finance the development of the Disneyland amusement park. After being turned down by both CBS and NBC , Disney eventually signed
3710-450: The 1989–1990 season, during which the company was negotiating with Jim Henson to buy The Muppets , they aired two Muppet specials; one of them was The Muppets at Walt Disney World , which turned out to be Henson's last Muppet special. He died May 16, 1990, 10 days after the special aired, and the company only acquired The Muppets more than a decade later. After two seasons experiencing the same lackluster ratings as it had accrued during
3816-575: The 2014 Marvel film, Guardians of the Galaxy , filling a gap in ABC's fall 2020 schedule. On October 9, 2020, ABC announced the program would return on October 14, with the broadcast television premiere of the 2017 Disney/Pixar film, Coco . Captain America: The Winter Soldier aired on January 12, 2021. The 2015 live action film Cinderella aired on January 19, 2021. On April 28, 2021, it
3922-559: The Beast was canceled but was instead replaced with the 2019 film The Lion King . In May 2023, it was announced the program would air on Sunday nights for 3 weeks in June (when the NBA Finals were not being played) in a 2-hour block, it would also air on Sunday nights in the fall of that year with a three-hour block. In May 2024, it was announced that the program would return the following month with
4028-516: The Disney Archives, as they explored props and costumes from the production of Mary Poppins and discussed the film's history and context within the Disney legacy. It was then shown on February 21, 2016, with the special Disneyland 60 , which honored Disneyland's 60th anniversary; on November 24, 2016, for their Magical Holiday Celebration, filmed at Walt Disney World; and on December 11, 2016, for
4134-489: The Disney Movie Club), with the possibility of additional future releases. From 2014 to 2019, live-action Disney films from the 1950s to the 1980s including special episodes from Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color aired on Turner Classic Movies , without commercial interruption, and presented uncut and with letterboxing on the network's standard-definition feed. All of the episodes and existing material used on
4240-520: The Moon , which aired December 28, 1955. This format remained basically unchanged through the 1980s, though new material was scarce in later years. Other episodes were segments from Disney films such as Seal Island and Alice in Wonderland , or cartoons of Donald Duck and other Disney standbys. The program spawned the Davy Crockett craze of 1955 with the airing of a three-episode series (not shown over
4346-541: The Prairie miniseries ran for several weeks in 2004 under the Wonderful World of Disney banner. For most of its second run on ABC, the program aired throughout the television season, with the exception of the 2005–06 season (when it aired during the midseason only), and in 2007 and 2008 (when it was relegated to the summer months), with a broader array of films occupying the network's Saturday primetime slot at other times, when sports programming did not air. The series ended as
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4452-596: The Sev Olson and the Will Osborne Orchestras. In 1939 she was also again broadcasting at WDAY. When Lee returned to California in 1940, she took a job singing at The Doll House in Palm Springs . Here, she developed her trademark sultry purr, having decided to compete with the noisy crowd with subtlety rather than volume. I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made,
4558-469: The Tramp was released on VHS , Lee sought performance and song royalties on the video sales. When the Disney company refused to pay, she filed a lawsuit in 1988. After a prolonged legal battle, in 1992, Lee was awarded $ 2.3 million for breach of contract, plus $ 500,000 for unjust enrichment, $ 600,000 for illegal use of Lee's voice and $ 400,000 for the use of her name. Peggy Lee also wrote the lyrics for " Johnny Guitar " (with music composer Victor Young ),
4664-551: The age of 17 in March 1938. Her first job was seasonal work on Balboa Island, Newport Beach , as a short order cook and waitress at Harry's Cafe. When the job ended after Easter, she was hired to work as a carnival barker at the Balboa Fun Zone. She wrote about this experience in the song, "The Nickel Ride", which she composed with Dave Grusin for the 1974 film of the same name. Later in 1938, Lee returned to Hollywood to audition for
4770-400: The anthology series premiered. While the broadcast that aired three days after his death featured a memorial tribute from Huntley-Brinkley Report anchor Chet Huntley with film and television star Dick Van Dyke , the introductions that Walt already filmed prior to his death continued to air for the remainder of the season. After that, the studio decided that Walt's persona as host was such
4876-409: The audience enjoyed their show. Although the basic format remained the same, the series moved to NBC on September 24, 1961, to take advantage of that network's ability to broadcast programming in color . In addition, Walt Disney's relationship with ABC had soured as the network resisted selling its stake in the theme park before doing so in 1960. In a display of foresight, Disney had filmed many of
4982-420: The band that spring [1943], her intention was to quit the footlights altogether and become Mrs. Barbour, fulltime housewife. It's to Mr. Barbour's credit that he refused to let his wife's singing and composing talent lie dormant for too long. "I fell in love with David Barbour," she recalled. "But 'Why Don't You Do Right' was such a giant hit that I kept getting offers and kept turning them down. And at that time it
5088-429: The beginning of 1983, it went on hiatus on February 15 while the aforementioned Gun Shy took up the second half of its time slot. When it came back for summer reruns on May 3, it was still on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m.; its final network broadcast was on September 24, bringing an uninterrupted 29-year run on all three networks to a close. The end of the show coincided with the launch of the studio's cable television network,
5194-535: The broadcast. Art Linkletter was assisted by Bob Cummings and Ronald Reagan , and the program featured various other guests, including various appearances of Walt himself as he dedicated the various lands of Disneyland. In 1958, the series was retitled Walt Disney Presents and moved to a Friday-night timeslot; by 1960, ABC had switched it to Sunday nights, where it remained for 21 years. During this iteration, The Peter Tchaikovsky Story , an episode made to promote Walt's latest animated feature, Sleeping Beauty ,
5300-414: The broadcast. Walt apparently wanted people to see Sleeping Beauty in 70 mm, so, in the introduction, he explained the difference between 35 mm and 70 mm and held up a card with both sizes on it. In addition to episodes devoted to the latest additions at Disneyland, many episodes during this period were Westerns such as " Texas John Slaughter " and " Elfego Baca ", while others talked about
5406-411: The course of consecutive weeks) about the historical American frontiersman, starring Fess Parker in the title role. Millions of dollars of merchandise relating to the title character were sold, and the theme song, " The Ballad of Davy Crockett ", became a hit record that year. Three historically based hour-long programs aired during late 1954/early 1955, and were followed up by two dramatized installments
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#17328590880585512-759: The dinner, the couple gifted Lee with a song they had written entitled, "Let's Love". In July 1974, with Paul McCartney producing, Lee recorded the song at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, and it became the title track for her 40th album, her only one on Atlantic Records . Lee starred opposite Danny Thomas in The Jazz Singer (1952), a remake of the Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer (1927). She played an alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), for which she
5618-409: The earlier shows in color, allowing them to easily be repeated on NBC; since all but three of Disney's feature-length films were also made in color (the three black-and-white exceptions were The Shaggy Dog , The Absent-Minded Professor , and Son of Flubber , all family comedies starring Fred MacMurray ), they could now also be telecast in that format. To emphasize the new feature, the series
5724-483: The end of its initial NBC run and its subsequent runs on CBS and ABC, Disney elected to end the broadcast television run of The Magical World of Disney and began airing the anthology on the Disney Channel – in the same time slot it had been airing for the past decade – starting in September 1990, expanding back to a two-hour format. Since the Disney Channel operated as a premium channel at the time, films presented on
5830-690: The episode An Adventure in Art, four different artists were given the task of drawing the same tree, with each artist using his own preferred ways of drawing and imagining a tree; this led to cartoon examples of differently animated trees, as in some of the early Silly Symphonies shorts, and later full-length animated films. "Tomorrow Land" was an opportunity for the Disney studio staff to present cutting-edge science and technology, and to predict possible futures, such as futuristic automobiles and highways, and featured Wernher von Braun as an on-air technical consultant in Man and
5936-400: The established 60 Minutes and scripted mystery series Murder, She Wrote on CBS , both of which Disney was competing with for viewers, remained the leading primetime programs on Sunday nights. In 1987, ABC reduced The Disney Sunday Movie from two hours to one. The move did not help drive ratings, and the network decided not to renew its contract with Disney or pick up a fourth season of
6042-515: The event to a sold-out Hollywood Bowl , and then to Chicago's Ravinia Festival , with expanded casts including Maureen McGovern , Jack Jones , and Bea Arthur . The Carnegie Hall concert was broadcast on NPR 's JazzSet . The Wimbledon depot building, where she and her family lived and worked, became the Midland Continental Depot Transportation Museum, featuring The Peggy Lee Exhibit, in 2012. The upper floor of
6148-502: The film and the Tony Award-nominated Broadway stage version and was performed in front of a live audience with giant projection surface. The title was used again on November 28, 2019, for a two-hour music special, The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration , hosted by Emma Bunton and Matthew Morrison . On May 7, 2020, it was announced that The Wonderful World of Disney would bring back its banner for
6254-469: The following year. The TV episodes were later edited into two theatrical films. On July 17, 1955, the opening of Disneyland was covered on a live television special, Dateline: Disneyland , which is not technically considered to be part of the series. It was hosted by Art Linkletter , with whom Walt Disney had worked out a deal prior to the opening to allow Linkletter to lease a shop on Main Street in return for
6360-467: The four aforementioned lands, one of which was then identified as the main feature of that evening's program. Consequently, Davy Crockett and other pioneers of the Old West , and American history in general, appeared in "Frontier Land". Similarly, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea might be the focus of an evening spent in "Adventure Land", although a documentary on the film could also be possibly presented as
6466-697: The funeral of Louis Armstrong . The designer of the Miss Piggy Muppet , Bonnie Erickson , who grew up in Lee's home state of North Dakota, used the singer as inspiration for the Miss Piggy character in 1974. Originally called Miss Piggy Lee, her name was shortened to Miss Piggy when the Muppet gained fame. In 1975, Lee received an honorary doctorate in music from North Dakota State University, and in 2000, she received another from Jamestown University. In 1983, Lee had
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#17328590880586572-416: The historical title The Wonderful World of Disney for the first few years, while other networks broadcast the show with another title, A Disney Special ). During this time, one of the telefilms shown under the banner was spun off into its own series -- The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage , a collaboration with Stephen J. Cannell Productions. In 1997, with Disney acquiring ABC the previous year, ABC gave
6678-406: The hosting job. Eisner hired Michael Kay, a director of political commercials for then- U.S. Senator Bill Bradley , to help him improve his on-camera performance. The Disney Sunday Movie initially aired as ABC's lead-off program on Sundays, running from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time. By this point, the format was similar to a movie-of-the-week. Gary Barton, a Disney senior vice president,
6784-785: The inspiration for the Margarita cocktail. In 1948, after a trip to Mexico, she and her husband ventured into the Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas . She requested a drink similar to one she had had in Mexico, and the head bartender, Santos Cruz, created the Margarita, and named it after the Spanish version of Peggy's name. Lee was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording in 1960. The star
6890-409: The life and works of beavers and their dam-building) or those using stroboscopic stop-action photography (such as investigating what really happened when a rain-drop fell in a puddle, as part of a "Fantasy Land" episode), explaining the techniques of cartoon animation. The multiplane camera used to create the three-dimensional effects of Bambi was also a topic for a "Fantasy Land"-set telecast. In
6996-536: The more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then, they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling'. The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience—softly, with feeling. While performing at The Doll House, Lee met Frank Bering, the owner of the Ambassador East and West in Chicago. He offered her
7102-486: The movie night anthology as The Magical World of Disney Junior on its new 24/7 channel. The channel also premiered its first Disney Junior Original Movie, Lucky Duck during Magical World on June 20, 2014. Prior to the launch of the Disney Channel, several of the films and specials made for the anthology series were licensed to pay-TV networks such as HBO ; in HBO's case, the kaleidoscopic-pattern titles that preceded them in
7208-528: The museum, where the Egstrom family once lived, features exhibits that trace Lee's career and her regional and state connection. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Lee's birth, May 26, 2020, The Grammy Museum hosted an online panel discussion featuring musicians Billie Eilish , k.d. lang , Eric Burton (The Black Pumas), as well as Lee's granddaughter, Holly Foster Wells, and the author of Peggy Lee: A Century of Song , Dr. Tish Oney. Lee has been noted as
7314-426: The network television premiere of Frozen . On August 5, 2019, it was announced that The Wonderful World of Disney would present The Little Mermaid Live! on November 5 of that year with Auliʻi Cravalho , Queen Latifah and Shaggy starring as Ariel, Ursula and Sebastian, respectively. The cast also included John Stamos as Chef Louis and Graham Phillips as Prince Eric. The special featured music from both
7420-504: The network television premiere of Toy Story . On October 5, 1997, Disney Telefilms' first production, Toothless , debuted on the series. In addition to the planned 16 original Disney telemovies, ABC and Disney added a few direct-to-video movies and films from other sources. In 2001, a Spanish-language version of the program premiered on Telemundo (which, incidentally, was acquired by the English version's former home, NBC, that same year) as El Maravilloso Mundo de Disney , with more of
7526-515: The occasional holiday special, theme park anniversary, or cartoon compilation. The CBS version of the shows' intro would also be featured on Disney Channel. After the studio – which was rechristened as the Walt Disney Company in 1986 – underwent a change in management, Disney sought to bring back some sort of programming to broadcast television. Their efforts led to the premiere of The Disney Sunday Movie , which debuted on February 2, 1986, on ABC . Many names were considered to serve as presenter for
7632-485: The original run were retained. Around the same time that the 1980s incarnations aired on ABC and NBC, reruns of older episodes of the Disney anthology series, airing under the Wonderful World of Disney banner, were syndicated to broadcast television stations throughout the United States as well as in various international markets. In Australia, the program aired on Network Seven on Saturdays at 6:30 pm, before it
7738-455: The program did not present any film made by Disney's Touchstone subsidiary , as such films were not considered appropriate for children. However, Splash, Too , a sequel to the 1984 film , aired on the series over two weeks in May 1988. The series had increased Disney park attendance and ABC's Sunday night ratings for the evening by an average 27% for the rest of the season. Disney, wanting to make it
7844-412: The program had done during its last season as The Disney Sunday Movie , The Magical World of Disney ran for one hour, airing at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time; Michael Eisner also returned as its host. During this period, the show attempted to reintroduce the rotating format the show started out with in 1954. It also introduced new versions of Walt-era movies and TV shows such as The Absent-Minded Professor ,
7950-480: The program returned for five weeks with a series of theatrical movies from the Disney+ library, which includes the 2019 CGI film The Lion King and Finding Nemo , as well as the broadcast television premiere of Iron Man and The Avengers . Due to the death of Barbara Walters on December 30, 2022, the schedule would be moved by a week and the broadcast television premiere of the 2017 live action film Beauty and
8056-496: The program. The show shortened its title to Disney's Wonderful World , and updated the opening sequence with a computer-generated logo and disco -styled theme song, but largely kept the same format. The problems for the show continued. As a result of the ratings strength of 60 Minutes , compounded by low ratings, increasingly less original material, and frequent pre-emptions (primarily due to sporting events such as NFL game telecasts ), NBC cancelled Disney in 1981. One factor that
8162-475: The revived show, including Julie Andrews , Dick Van Dyke , Cary Grant , Tom Hanks , Walter Cronkite , Roy E. Disney (who closely resembled his uncle), and even Mickey Mouse . The studio finally decided to have Michael Eisner , the company's recently hired CEO, host the series. Although he was not a performer, after filming a test video with his wife Jane and a member of his executive team (which required multiple takes), studio management believed he could do
8268-562: The same family audience as the Disney series. From 1968 to 1975, when NBC held the television rights to Oz (which it had acquired from CBS in 1967), it usually pre-empted Disney to show it. However, the show's stiffest weekly competition came from CBS's newsmagazine 60 Minutes . In 1975, an amendment to the Prime Time Access Rule gave the Sunday 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time slot back to the networks, allowing NBC to move Disney back by
8374-406: The same function that the anthology series served in the days before cable. The original opening titles were restored to the episodes in 1997. Reruns of the anthology series were discontinued when the channel exclude all vintage material with the removal of its Vault Disney late-night block on September 8, 2002. However, a few select episodes are available on VHS or DVD (some of which are exclusive to
8480-415: The second iteration of the anthology series. The Disney Sunday Movie was also being run on the Disney Channel , also hosted by Eisner. In early 1988, NBC decided to renew its association with the company after it cut ties to the anthology series seven years earlier; the network brought the series, now named The Magical World of Disney , to serve as the lead-in of its Sunday lineup in September 1988. As
8586-451: The series a regular slot in the schedule. Disney CEO Eisner formed Disney Telefilms by 1995 to supply original films to the series and program together with ABC. It led ABC's Sunday night lineup at the 7:00 p.m. Eastern time slot, resulting in the displacement of Sunday mainstay America's Funniest Home Videos , which had occupied the slot since 1992. On September 28, 1997, the all-new The Wonderful World of Disney premiered with
8692-409: The series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's purchase of ABC in 1996. From 1997 to 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Since then, ABC has continued the series as an occasional special presentation from 2008 onward, the most recent being a holiday music special in 2019. In 2020, the series returned with movies from
8798-540: The series up to 1996 are listed in the Bill Cotter book The Wonderful World of Disney Television , which was released in 1997 by Hyperion Books (which was owned by the Walt Disney Company at the time of the book's publication). Peggy Lee Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee , was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginning as
8904-805: The series were presented without commercial interruption. The Magical World of Disney originally aired on the cable channel as a weekly Sunday-only program for its first 5½ years; but in December 1996, as part of the first phase of a programming revamp that culminated in its formal conversion into a commercial-free basic cable channel in April 1997, the Disney Channel expanded the Magical World brand to encompass its Monday through Saturday primetime film block, maintaining its 7:00 p.m. Eastern time slot. The Wonderful World of Disney returned in 1991 as an umbrella title for Disney specials airing on major networks (CBS airings used
9010-420: The series' format remained unchanged. During the 1981–1982 season, the series had a full season's worth of material again, but little of it was new. Among the little that actually was new were a handful of pilots based on Pollyanna , Escape to Witch Mountain , and The Apple Dumpling Gang , but only the last of the three pilots was sold and became the half-hour sitcom Gun Shy the following season, one of
9116-487: The seventh of the eight children of Selma Emele (née Anderson) Egstrom and Marvin Olaf Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad . Her family were Lutherans . Her father was Swedish-American and her mother was Norwegian-American. After her mother died when Lee was four, her father married Minnie Schaumberg Wiese. His family's original name was Ekström. Lee and her family lived in several towns along
9222-405: The spotlight on Chip 'n' Dale, combining their theatrical cartoons with mixed media wrap-around footage including the chipmunks' own theme song. The episode's genre is a live action/animated musical comedy, and as the title suggests, it stars the titular chipmunks. At the end of the episode, Chip 'n' Dale say (singing) their goodbyes to the audience and return to their nut home on the counter hoping
9328-490: The studio's first entries in that genre but only lasted six episodes. The 1982–1983 season had enough material to fill the time slot, but almost all of it was pre-existing material, the lone exception being the celebrity-laden opening ceremony of Epcot on October 23. It also did not help matters that NBC slotted the family-friendly sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and Silver Spoons at 8:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. up against it to draw children away from CBS. After moving to Tuesday at
9434-521: The three-part sequel The Further Adventures of Gallegher , the four-part Gallegher Goes West series, and the two episodes titled The Mystery of Edward Sims . Gold Key Comics did a one-shot comic tie-in to the Disney episodes: Walt Disney's Gallegher, Boy Reporter in 1965. Walt Disney%27s Wonderful World of Color The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats. The program's current title, The Wonderful World of Disney ,
9540-613: The title track of the 1954 film, Johnny Guitar , which she sings partially at the end of the movie. During her career, Lee appeared in hundreds of variety shows, and several TV movies and specials. Lee was married four times: to guitarist and composer Dave Barbour (1943–1951), actor Brad Dexter (1953), actor Dewey Martin (1956–1958), and percussionist Jack Del Rio (1964). All the marriages ended in divorce. On November 11, 1943, Lee gave birth to her only child, daughter Nicki Lee Foster (who died in 2014), in her marriage to Barbour. Lee learned Transcendental Meditation and said she
9646-400: The top 20, until the mid-1970s. In 1976, Disney showed its hit 1961 film The Parent Trap on television for the first time, as a 2½-hour special. This marked a major step in broadcasting for the studio, which had never shown one of its more popular films on television in a time slot longer than an hour (although it had shown Now You See Him, Now You Don't and Napoleon and Samantha in
9752-432: Was a lot of money, but it really didn't matter to me at all. I was very happy. All I wanted was to have a family and cling to the children [daughter Nicki]. Well, they kept talking to me and finally David joined them and said 'You really have too much talent to stay at home and someday you might regret it. ' " She drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for Capitol Records in 1944, for whom she recorded
9858-540: Was an outright flop in its initial theatrical release) were also aired on the program in the form of two-hour broadcasts that year. However, the multiepisode format for feature films had not been discontinued; as late as 1981, films such as Pollyanna were still being shown on the Disney program in several installments running a week apart. During the early 1970s, the show began to increasingly concentrate less on animated cartoons and dramatic or comedy films, and began to place an emphasis on nature-oriented programs (such as
9964-575: Was announced that the program would return on May 3, 2021, for five weeks with a series of theatrical movies from the Disney+ library, which includes the broadcast television premieres of Incredibles 2 and Finding Dory , Monsters, Inc. , Tangled and The Princess and the Frog . On October 28, 2021, the program returned with the broadcast television premiere of the 2019 Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 4 . Hocus Pocus aired on September 29, 2022, to promote Hocus Pocus 2 , which premiered on Disney+
10070-515: Was beyond the control of either Disney or NBC was a 94-day strike by the Screen Actors' Guild that cut the number of shows for the 1980–1981 season, but the damage was done nonetheless. Following NBC's announcement that it would drop the anthology series, CBS picked up the program and began airing it on Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, in September 1981. Despite a more elaborate credit sequence and another title change, to simply Walt Disney ,
10176-478: Was dropped in 1994 due to Optus Vision (later Foxtel )'s launch of a domestic version of the Disney Channel , with Saturday Disney replacing it as the channel's main block of Disney films. Reruns of the shows were a staple of the Disney Channel for several years under the title Walt Disney Presents (which used the same title sequence as the 1980s CBS incarnation), when it was an outlet for vintage Disney cartoons, television series, and films, basically serving
10282-542: Was hired to score and compose songs for movies. For the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp , she co-composed all of the original songs with Burke, and supplied the singing and speaking voices of four characters. Over the years, her songwriting collaborators included David Barbour, Laurindo Almeida , Harold Arlen , Sonny Burke, Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington , Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones, Francis Lai , Jack Marshall , Johnny Mandel , Marian McPartland, Willard Robison , Lalo Schifrin , and Victor Young. Lee's first published song
10388-579: Was in 1941, "Little Fool". "What More Can a Woman Do?" was recorded by Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker . " Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me) " was number one on the Billboard singles chart for nine weeks in 1948, from the week of March 13 to May 8. Lee was a mainstay of Capitol Records when rock and roll came onto the American music scene. She was among the first of the "old guard" to recognize this new genre, as seen by her recording music from
10494-691: Was in charge of the program. Help Wanted: Kids was the first episode's film. Other first revival year films were, Young Again , The Richest Cat in the World , I-Man (starring Scott Bakula), and My Town . Sometimes the slot would feature a special instead of dramatic material, such as "Disney Goes to the Oscars" featuring the studio's Academy Award winners, and "The Greatest Moments in Disney Animation". A handful of Disney Channel original films made their network television debuts during these iteration as well, but
10600-753: Was just his preoccupied way of looking. I thought that he didn't like me at first, but it just was that he was preoccupied with what he was hearing. She joined his band in August 1941 and made her first recording, singing " Elmer's Tune ". Lee stayed with the Benny Goodman Orchestra for two years. In 1942, Lee had her first top ten hit, "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place", followed in 1943 by " Why Don't You Do Right? ", which sold more than one million copies and made her famous. She sang with Goodman's orchestra in two 1943 films, Stage Door Canteen and The Powers Girl . In March 1943, Lee married Dave Barbour ,
10706-779: Was nominated for 13 Grammy Awards. In 1969, her hit " Is That All There Is? " won her the Grammy for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance . In 1995, she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award . She received the Rough Rider Award from the state of North Dakota in 1975, the Pied Piper Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1990, the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement from
10812-524: Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Lee provided speaking and singing voices for several characters in the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp (1955), playing the human Darling, the dog Peg, and the two Siamese cats , Si and Am . She also co-wrote, with Sonny Burke , all of the original songs for the film, including "He's A Tramp", "Bella Notte", "La La Lu", "The Siamese Cat Song", and "Peace on Earth". In 1987, when Lady and
10918-468: Was one of the first stereo simulcasts on TV; in this case it was 3 channel stereo. FM radio stations across the country carried the left channel at the same time as ABC broadcast the TV show in mono, which served as a center channel, and AM radio stations broadcast the right channel. In the second half of the show, a lengthy clip of Sleeping Beauty was shown, with its 6 channels (70mm version) mixed down into 3 for
11024-445: Was retitled Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color when NBC began airing it. The first NBC episode even dealt with the principles of color, as explained by a new character named Ludwig Von Drake (voiced by Paul Frees ), a bumbling professor with a thick German accent, who was the uncle of Donald Duck . Von Drake was the first Disney character created specifically for television. Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, 12 years after
11130-542: Was taught "by the Maharishi personally and that was a great honor." Lee continued to perform into the 1990s, sometimes using a wheelchair. After years of poor health, she died of complications from diabetes and a heart attack on January 21, 2002, at the age of 81. She was cremated and her ashes were buried with a bench-style monument in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Lee
11236-468: Was used from 1969 to 1979 and again from 1991 onward. The program moved among the Big Three television networks in its first four decades, but has aired on ABC since 1997. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1983. After a two-year hiatus it resumed, running regularly until 1991. From 1991 until 1997,
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