| Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Marc Eliot |
| Publication date | 1994 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 372 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-06-100789-7 |
| OCLC Number | 31745719 |
| Dewey Decimal | 791.43/092 B 20 |
| LC Classification | NC1766.U52 D5328 1994 |
Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince is a biography by Marc Eliot, presenting a darker picture of entertainer Walt Disney than his popular perception. Eliot purports to present evidence of life-long anti-Semitism (including a deleted scene from the 1933 Silly Symphony Three Little Pigs in which the Big Bad Wolf dresses as a Jewish peddler), covert employment by the House Un-American Activities Committee as a spy against Communists in Hollywood, and intense right-wing politics. For example, the book claims that Disney wore a Barry Goldwater badge when receiving the Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon Johnson just before the 1964 election and repeats urban legends such as Disney's alleged refusal to lower the American flag[1] at Disneyland after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The book has been called "an effective hatchet job"[2] and the book's claims are disputed by other authors, including ones who have reviewed and published information from the same FBI files as Eliot.[3][4]
