Costume Designer. She became best-known for her works for Walt Disney. She was married to a Disney animator and Imagineer, Marc Davis. As a talented artist in high school she received a scholarship to Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts) where she studied costume design. It was here that she met her future husband, who was teaching an animation class. Her first job after graduating was designing women's lingerie for the Beverly Vogue & Lingerie House in Los Angeles. In the mid 1950s she received a call from her future husband saying he needed a costume for actress Helene Stanley to wear in a live performance of Disney's "Sleeping Beauty." After she married Marc in June 1956, Walt just happen to see the two in a restaurant and hired her as a costume designer for the 1960 Disney feature "Toby Tyler," because of her work he had seen. Some of the other Disney projects she worked on included the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair attraction "It's a small world," costumes for the "General Electric Carousel of Progress," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and she did a revamp for "Flight to the Moon." She also designed costumes for various other Disney television shows. At the advice of her husband, she retired in 1978, but remained a consultant on projects for The Walt Disney Company. Her husband passed away in 2000. In 2004 she was inducted as a Disney Legend. On May 10, 2012, she was honored with a window on Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland next to her husband's window. In 1997, Davis received the Disneyana Fan Club Disney Legend award.
Costume Designer. She became best-known for her works for Walt Disney. She was married to a Disney animator and Imagineer, Marc Davis. As a talented artist in high school she received a scholarship to Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts) where she studied costume design. It was here that she met her future husband, who was teaching an animation class. Her first job after graduating was designing women's lingerie for the Beverly Vogue & Lingerie House in Los Angeles. In the mid 1950s she received a call from her future husband saying he needed a costume for actress Helene Stanley to wear in a live performance of Disney's "Sleeping Beauty." After she married Marc in June 1956, Walt just happen to see the two in a restaurant and hired her as a costume designer for the 1960 Disney feature "Toby Tyler," because of her work he had seen. Some of the other Disney projects she worked on included the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair attraction "It's a small world," costumes for the "General Electric Carousel of Progress," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and she did a revamp for "Flight to the Moon." She also designed costumes for various other Disney television shows. At the advice of her husband, she retired in 1978, but remained a consultant on projects for The Walt Disney Company. Her husband passed away in 2000. In 2004 she was inducted as a Disney Legend. On May 10, 2012, she was honored with a window on Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland next to her husband's window. In 1997, Davis received the Disneyana Fan Club Disney Legend award.
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