Virginia Davis, star of Walt Disney's early "Alice Comedies," passed away Saturday morning, August 15, 2009, at the age of 90.
Disney approached the parents of the four year old Davis in 1923, after seeing her in an advertisement in a local Kansas City theater. After inking a deal, Davis went on to star in the first 13 "Alice" cartoons, which combined live-action and cartoon animation.
Alice was to have appeared with Margaret Kerry , the live-action model for Tinkerbell, at the upcoming D23 convention in Los Angeles.
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Oh, I am so sorry to hear this! I got to meet her once and she was adorable. Every bit as adorable as she was in the Alice films so long ago.
Yes...it would have been fun to sit down and speak with her...by all accounts she was very accommodating and very personable.
I saw Margaret Kerry last weekend in person and she was saying how wonderful it was going to be to share the stage with Virginia at D23.
I guess that just leaves Ruthie Thomson as one of the last old timers. She's 99 years old and has a very good memory of the early days.
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