During this interim, Jones found employment at Walt Disney Pictures, where he teamed with Ward Kimball for a four month period of uncredited work on Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ).

Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised from 1955 to 1959 by ABC, featuring a regular but ever-changing cast of child performers.

* An overview of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club Magazine / Walt Disney's Magazine ( Winter 1956-Oct. 1959 )

Moosup's claim to fame is that it is the boyhood hometown of Walt Dropo, During a 13-year career in Major League Baseball, he played for the Boston Red Sox ( 1949 – 1952 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1952 – 1954 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1955 – 1958 ), Cincinnati Redlegs ( 1958 – 1959 ) and Baltimore Orioles ( 1959-1961 ).

Darby O ' Gill and the Little People is a 1959 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O ' Dea, in a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns.

* The name " Okefenokee " has appeared many times in American pop culture, including Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo, where the characters made their home in the Okefenokee Swamp, Freddy Cannon's 1959 hit " Okefenokee ", and Larry Verne's " Okefenokee Two-Step ".

In 1959 the story was made into a Walt Disney animated film.

Maleficent is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Walt Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty.

Yamauchi's first " hit " came when he made a licensing agreement with Walt Disney in 1959 for his plastic playing cards.

He also published The Literary Tradition ( 1954 ) and edited a new edition of Leaves of Grass ( 1959 ) by Walt Whitman.

The Shaggy Dog is a black-and-white 1959 Walt Disney film about Wilby Daniels, a teenage boy who by the power of an enchanted ring of the Borgias is transformed into the title character, a shaggy Old English Sheepdog.

He appeared in several films as a child including Beyond This Place ( 1959 ) and the Walt Disney features Greyfriars Bobby ( 1961 ), Almost Angels ( 1962 ) and The Three Lives of Thomasina ( 1964 ).

He was a relief driver for Walt Faulkner in the 1955 Indianapolis 500 He finished in the top ten 5 times, with his best finish in 5th position, in 1959 at Sacramento.

Annakin became known for a series of Walt Disney adventures, including The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men ( 1952 ), The Sword and the Rose ( 1953 ), Third Man on the Mountain ( 1959 ), and Swiss Family Robinson ( 1960 ).

On January 30, 1959, ABC's Walt Disney Presents made a stereo broadcast of The Peter Tchaikovsky Story — including scenes from Disney's latest animated feature, Sleeping Beauty — by using ABC-affiliated AM and FM stations for the left and right audio channels.

He had a small role in the 1959 Walt Disney film " Tonka " as a rustler of stray horses for selling.

The Dapper Dans are a barbershop quartet that performs at Disneyland in Anaheim, California ( since 1959 ), at the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort ( since 1971 ), and at Hong Kong Disneyland in Lantau Island, Hong Kong ( since 2007-2008 ).

* Noah's Ark ( 1959 film ), a Walt Disney short film featuring stop motion animation effects

* When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was denied permission to go to Disneyland in 1959, Walt Disney was reportedly upset, as he wanted to introduce Khrushchev to one of the largest submarine forces in the world.

Disney continued making animated films, notably ; Cinderella ( 1950 ), Peter Pan ( 1953 ), Lady and the Tramp ( 1955 ), and Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ).

The series was revived, reformatted and reimagined after its initial 1955 – 1959 run on ABC, first in 1977 for syndication, and again, from 1989 to 1995 on the Disney Channel.

MacMurray's career was revitalized in 1959, when he was cast as the father in the popular Disney Studios comedy, The Shaggy Dog.

) Connery does sing the song Pretty Irish Girl ( with solo piano accompaniment ) on the 1992 compilation The Music of Disney: A Legacy of Song, and in 1959 Top Rank released a single in the UK ( catalog number JAR 163 ) which featured Connery and Munro singing the song.

Frees also had a small live action role for Disney in the 1959 film The Shaggy Dog, playing Dr. Galvin, a military psychiatrist who attempts to understand why Mr. Daniels believes a shaggy dog can uncover a spy ring.

* Diablo ( Disney ), a fictional raven from the 1959 Disney film Sleeping Beauty

In June 1959, amid the completion of Disneyland's first major expansion, Disney introduced the " E " designation for the park's most popular attractions and made the new Submarine Voyage, Matterhorn Bobsleds, and Disneyland – Alweg Monorail " E " coupon attractions.

* In 1994, the first remake of the film was a television movie, with Disney regular Scott Weinger as a teenaged Wilbert ' Wilby ' Joseph Daniels, and Ed Begley, Jr. playing a part similar to the one originated by Fred MacMurray in 1959.

In the UK, however, the 1959 movie has only ever been made available on Disney DVD in black and white.

Space Mountain concept was a descendant of the first Disney " mountain " attraction, the Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland, which opened in 1959.

* Zorro ( 1957 TV series ), United States Disney TV series, 1957 – 1959

Featuring Disney favorite Tommy Kirk as the hapless teenager and A-lister Fred MacMurray as the answer to B-lister Whit Bissell, it was released in 1959 under the title, The Shaggy Dog.

Disney replaced longtime management personnel ( including George Green, who started as a KABC salesman in 1959 and had been general manager for 16 years ) with Disney corporate selections.

In 1959, Richardson co-founded Woodfall Film Productions with John Osborne and producer Harry Saltzman, and, as Woodfall's debut, directed the film version of Look Back in Anger, his first feature film.

* Cayuga Productions, the production company for The Twilight Zone ( 1959 TV series )

In the late 1950s British Hammer Film Productions took up the Mummy theme, beginning with The Mummy ( 1959 ), which, rather than being a remake of the 1932 Karloff film, is based on Universal's The Mummy's Hand ( 1940 ) and The Mummy's Tomb ( 1942 ).

Goodson-Todman Productions were also involved with three westerns: Jefferson Drum ( 1958 – 1959 ), starring Jeff Richards as a newspaper editor in the Old West ; The Rebel ( 1959 – 1961 ), starring Nick Adams as an ex-Confederate soldier who traveled to the West after the Civil War ( Johnny Cash sang the theme ); and Branded, starring Chuck Connors as a soldier who had wrongly been given a dishonorable discharge from the Army.

His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 – 59 ), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1959 ).

Because UPA shut down its animation studio in 1959, the animation for these cartoons was done by Jack Kinney Productions and Larry Harmon Pictures.

One account says that Ball recalled in 1961 that Desilu Productions first bought the rights to the Beardsley-North story in 1959, even before Helen Beardsley published her biography.

Clutch Cargo is an animated television series produced by Cambria Productions and syndicated beginning on March 9, 1959. Notable for its very limited animation, yet imaginative stories, the series was a surprise hit at the time, and could be seen on 65 stations nationwide in 1960.

Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 film noir produced and directed by Robert Wise for HarBel Productions, a company founded by the film's star, Harry Belafonte.

* Pressbook ( Wilmington, Ohio: Hallmark Productions, circa 1959.