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Candlelight Processional (Disney Parks)
The Candlelight Processional is an annual live Christmas event held in Disneyland Park in California and EPCOT at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. The event was created by Walt Disney himself, and has become an annual holiday tradition for many guests. The processional is currently performed for only two nights only at Disneyland, and throughout the holiday season at EPCOT. Event history Disneyland For the first holiday season at Disneyland in 1955, Walt Disney and Disneyland entertainment director Tommy Walker enlisted the help of Dr. Charles C. Hirt, director of choral music at the USC Thornton School of Music, to hire and train a group of traditional Christmas carolers for atmosphere entertainment. Guest choirs and performing groups were also brought in to play at a small bandstand near Sleeping Beauty Castle, which was renamed the Christmas Bowl. On the opening day of the park's Christmas festivities in 1955, the carolers, guest choirs, and school bands sched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Morgan
Dennis Morgan (born Earl Stanley Morner; December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame. According to one obituary, he was "a twinkly-eyed handsome charmer with a shy smile and a pleasant tenor voice in carefree and inconsequential Warner Bros musicals of the forties, accompanied by Jack Carson.""Obituary: Too slick to play Rick", ''The Guardian'', October 18, 1994. Another said, "for all his undoubted star potential, Morgan was perhaps cast once too often as the likeable, clean-cut, easy-going but essentially uncharismatic young man who typically loses his girl to someone more sexually magnetic." David Shipman said he "was comfortable, good-looking, well-mannered: the antithesis of the gritty Bogart." Life and career Early life Morgan was born in the village of Prentice in Price County, in northern Wisconsin, the son of Grace J. (née Vand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
