#mickey mouse

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#children #club #designed #established #mickey

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images. ↗

— John Hench

#china #communicate #did #even #great

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. ↗

— Walt Disney

#around #brother #business #corner #disaster

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. ↗

— Walt Disney

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I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#did #ended #i #know #mickey

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#berserk #big #big head #came #child

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#character #disney #hard #him #make

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#call #claim #everyone #fame #life

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#club #crush #face #family #mickey

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#dear #dear friend #friend #heart #mickey