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Article: THE MICKEY MOUSE MONSTER; To millions he was known as Uncle Walt, but here, on his centenary, we reveal the dark truth about Walt Disney - tyrant, wife-beater, cheat, Nazi sympathiser.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Byline: GLENYS ROBERTS
WALT DISNEY'S staff of hardworking animators were determined to give their boss a fitting present to mark his 35th birthday.
While they worked round the clock to keep him happy, they felt unappreciated by the man who had already been hailed a genius for his creation of Mickey Mouse.
Walt denied them any of the acclaim that was rightfully theirs.
He even denied them a living wage.
Now they would show him just how they felt.
Disney's birthday present was a special cartoon of Mickey and his mouse girlfriend, Minnie - so special, in fact, that it would have outraged America if it had ever been shown ...