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

In 1993 at the age of 57 Sharon died from cancer at St. He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 14 1964. Work also began on Cinderella which became Disney's most successful film since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. Disney he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The year after his December 15 1966 death from lung cancer in Burbank California construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.