Author Mindy Johnson said of her “She was hired on to do painting—blackening as it was called in those days—because as you’ll see the cartoons were really rather crude, basic. It was really blackening in the pencil lines to convey the story.”
When Lillian Bounds worked in the Ink and Paint Department in the early days of Disney, Walt would drive her and Kathleen Dollard home from the office after work. Even though Lillian’s place was closer, he would drop her off last to spend more time with her.
Kathleen told Lillian, “I have a job for you, but I am telling you about it on one condition: don’t marry the boss.” (Diane Disney Miller recalls hearing the story somewhat differently, and with a far more evocative period vernacular: “I was told that Kathleen's admonition to mother was actually ‘Don't vamp the boss.’")
So she was responsible in a small way for getting Walt and Lillian together. Deos that not make her a Disney Legend?
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