Michael Graves - my 354th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Architect Michael Graves is my 354th pick to be named a Disney Legend.

Graves and his firm designed several buildings for the Walt Disney Company in the postmodern style. These include the Team Disney headquarters in Burbank, California; the Dolphin (1987) and Swan (1988) resorts at Walt Disney World in Florida; and Disney's Hotel New York (1989) at Disneyland Paris. Patrick Burke, the project architect for the two resort hotels in Florida, commented that the Walt Disney Company described Graves's designs as "entertainment architecture." In addition to the Swan and Dolphin hotel buildings, Graves's firm designed their original interiors, furnishings, signage, and artwork.

Edward Andrews - my 353rd choice to be named a Disney Legend

Character actor Edward Andrews is my 353rd pick to be given the Disney Legend honor. 

His Disney roles included Bert Shannon in the 2-part Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "The Young Loner", Mayor Massey in the 2-part Wonderful World of Disney episode "The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton", Mr. Sampson in Now You See Him, Now You Don't, Morgan in The Million Dollar Duck, Governor Robbins in A Tiger Walks and Defense Secretary in The Absent-Minded Professor and its sequel.

Larry Morey - my 352nd pick to be named a disney Legend

He co-wrote some of the most successful songs in Disney films of the 1930s and 1940s, including "Heigh-Ho", "Some Day My Prince Will Come", and "Whistle While You Work"; and was also responsible for adapting Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods into the 1942 Disney film, Bambi. He is my 352nd choice to be named a Disney Legend.

 

He joined Disney in 1933, and wrote songs for several animated shorts, including The Wise Little Hen and The Grasshopper and the Ants. Working with composer Frank Churchill, he then wrote some 25 songs for Disney's first full-length cartoon, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937.[4] Eight of their songs were used in the film, including "Heigh-Ho", "Some Day My Prince Will Come", "Whistle While You Work", and "I'm Wishing", and the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

In 1938 Morey collaborated with composer Albert Hay Malotte on the title song for Ferdinand the Bull, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and he worked with Frank Churchill on the score for The Reluctant Dragon in 1941. The following year he and Perce Pearce were responsible for adapting the book Bambi into the animated film of the same name. With Churchill, Morey was responsible for the film score, and both it and the song "Love Is a Song" were nominated for Oscars. In 1949, he received another Academy Award nomination, with composer Eliot Daniel, for the song "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)", sung by Burl Ives in the film So Dear to My Heart.