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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 18 > Disney’s first star, Virginia Davis, 90

Disney’s first star, Virginia Davis, 90

By Robert W. Butler / The Bulletin
August 18, 2009

KANSAS CITY, Mo. " Virginia Davis, the little Kansas City girl who became the star of Walt Disney's first series of hit movies, died Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 90.

In the spring of 1923, Disney, then 21 and the struggling owner of Laugh-O-gram Studio in Kansas City, saw....

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