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    A dark and bold fountain pen Walt Disney signature highlights this personally signed bank check from Disneyland's opening year.  This December 23, 1955 check is a Christmas gift to the stepson of one of Disneyland's designers, Marvin Davis.  Walt Disney has personally signed this check after it was filled out by a secretary.  Signed by Walt Disney using his full "Walter E. Disney" legal signature.   The check is endorsed on the back in the boy's behalf by his mother Marjorie S. Davis (the niece of Walt Disney's wife Lillian).  

Lillian Disney's niece Marjorie Sewell (Davis) appeared in some of Walt Disney's early "ALICE COMEDIES" and years later would marry Disney Imagineer Marvin Davis. In 1953 art director Marvin Davis was asked to help Walt Disney design and development Disneyland.  Senior Imagineer John Hench recalled,  "Marvin was very conscientious about developing the Park. He worked extremely hard to help bring Walt's dream to life, exactly as Walt envisioned it."  Davis worked closely with Walt in designing and laying-out virtually every aspect of the Park's conceptualization and architecture, including Main Street U.S.A., New Orleans Square, Sleeping Beauty Castle and the exterior of the Haunted Mansion and more.

After the theme park's successful opening in the summer of 1955, Davis returned to art directing motion pictures, including Disney's "Moon Pilot," "Babes in Toyland" and "Big Red," as "Zorro" and "The Mickey Mouse Club" for television.   In 1962 he received an Emmy Award for art direction and scenic design on "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color."  In 1965, he returned to WED (Imagineering) as a project designer for Walt Disney World in Florida. In addition to the master plan for the theme park, Davis contributed to the design of such resort hotels as the Contemporary, the Polynesian and the Golf Resort. After 22 years with the Company, he retired in 1975.  He was later named a "Disney Legend" by the company.

A nice Christmas remembrance from Walt Disney to Lillian Disney's side of the family and the stepson of one of Walt's most important Imagineers.  Measures approximately 8.25" x 3".  Two vertical folds.  Includes the Phil Sears Collectibles Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity.  Also included is a photograph suitable for framing (photos shown are not the same as the photo included).
Item #3617, $1995
 
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