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26 unusual facts about Mickey


Bradley Raymond

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) (segment "Donald Duck: Stuck on Christmas")

Burny Mattinson

He also has story credits for The Fox and the Hound (1981), The Great Mouse Detective (1986), The Black Cauldron(1985), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), The Lion King(1994) and Mickey's Christmas Carol(1983).

Love Starved Heart: Rare and Unreleased

Covering material he worked on with luminaries such as Holland-Dozier-Holland, Smokey Robinson and William "Mickey" Stevenson, the disc showcases Gaye's growth as a vocalist.

Mark Dindal

He worked on The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron, Mickey's Christmas Carol, and The Great Mouse Detective, following a very similar animation style in all movies.

Mickey's Amateurs

Mickey's Amateurs was directed by Pinto Colvig, Erdman Penner, and Walt Pfeiffer, and features original and adapted music by Oliver Wallace.

Goofy begins by playing "In the Good Old Summer Time," and then "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." (His cue is "Okay fellers, let's get hot!") But the tempo and intensity of the song causes the machine to be destroyed.

Mickey's Choo-Choo

The cartoon ends with an image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse riding a handcar (made from the chassis and a plank of wood from the freight car which came uncoupled accidentally when Mickey tried to push the train up the hill when it got stuck earlier in the film) into the sunset, which inspired a famous toy version, manufactured by the Lionel Corporation.

Mickey's Circus

3 May 2004: Released on DVD as part of a two disk collection of early Mickey Mouse shorts - Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, part of the Walt Disney Treasures line.

Although the film is called Mickey's Circus, the film mostly features Donald Duck; however Mickey Mouse does feature in the beginning and end.

Mickey's Diner

The original Mickey's Diner appears in several Hollywood movies including The Mighty Ducks, Jingle All the Way, and A Prairie Home Companion.

Mickey's Follies

The animals in the barnyard are watching a series of short song and dance numbers performed by other barnyard animals, similar to the Ziegfeld Follies of the day.

Mickey's Halloween Treat

For the activities starting in 2010, Disneyland's Halloween Time events - such as Haunted Mansion Holiday, Space Mountain's "Ghost Galaxy" layout and the Halloween themed fireworks show, called,"Halloween Screams", featuring the voice of Chris Sarandon as Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas - were added into the mix.

Mickey's Helping Hand

Directed by Jesse Duffy, the two-reel short was released to theaters on December 19, 1931 by RKO Radio Pictures.

Mickey's Mechanical House

Mickey Mouse keeps trying to sleep, in his footed pajamas, while living in an old, unrepaired house, which constantly annoys him.

Mickey's Medicine Man

Directed by Jesse Duffy, the two-reel short was released to theaters on May 18, 1934 by Post Pictures Corp.

Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party

Disney's event caters to a traditional family atmosphere, whereas Universal's has more of a "fright-centered" event with their monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, etc.)

Mickey's Rescue

Directed by Jesse Duffy, the two-reel short was released to theaters on March 23, 1934 by Post Pictures Corp.

Mickey's Soundsational Parade

Eventually, director Steve Davison chose the idea of doing a parade based on Disney music in general, allowing for numerous films to be utilized.

Conceived by Steve Davison, the parade celebrates music from Disney's films.

Mickey's Speedway USA

As one of the drivers, including Disney characters such as Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pete, the player races on tracks in the United States, based on locations such as New York, Alaska, Los Angeles, and Seattle, to find the Weasels and save Pluto.

Mickey's Toontown

In July 2011, for the television program Curb Appeal: The Block, designer and host John Gidding installed a comical Toontown-style railing, made of styrofoam, on the front porch of an Alameda, California home.

Mickey's Touchdown

First appearances of Douglas Scott and Shirley Jean Rickert who (respectively) took over for the roles of 'Stinkey Davis' and 'Tomboy Taylor'.

Mickey's Trailer

In the Norwegian and Swedish broadcast of From All of Us to All of You, the scene where Goofy sticks his fork in a light socket is cut, along with most of the trailer's way downhill.

Once Upon a Christmas

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, an animated movie, released direct to video in 1999

The Pointer

Although often cited as the animated debut of Mickey's modern character design, this actually occurred five months earlier in Mickey's Surprise Party.

Tony Anselmo

(Taylor voiced the nephews in DuckTales, Mickey's Once and Twice Upon a Christmas, Mickey's Speedway USA, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit).


A Mile in His Shoes

The film centers on Mickey Tussler (Luke Schroder), a 17-year-old from Ohio with Asperger syndrome, who joins the semi-professional baseball team the River Rats after being discovered by Arthur Murphy (Dean Cain).

Brad Pickett

Brad's nickname and his flamboyant entrance to the ring are not derived from Brad Pitt's character "One Punch Mickey" from the movie Snatch but from his grandfather.

Bridgeport Bluefish

The original founders of the Bluefish were Mickey Herbert, Jack McGregor, Mary-Jane Foster, and the Bridgeport Waterfront Investors.

Carolyn Clark

Charlotte Clark, full name Carolyn Geis Clark, American seamstress; created the first line of Mickey Mouse dolls

Dead in Tombstone

The film begins with a narration on the West, or the "New Frontier", described by the narrator — Lucifer (Mickey Rourke), one of the seven Princes of Hell, — as a "heartless, lawless viper pit", contrary to popular belief that it is made up of "god-fearing" good folk.

Disney Magic

The ship's cabins, lounges, restaurants and spa were to be completely updated in addition to new features including; "Marvel's Avengers Academy", a play area based on Marvel's Avengers characters, the AquaDunk and the AquaLab, consisting of a pool and waterslide that will replace the ship's Mickey Pool.

Duck Studios

Mickey's PhilharMagic - In 2003, director Jamie Caliri worked with Duck Soup and Walt Disney Feature Animation to create a sequence featuring characters from The Lion King.

Efren Ramirez

Ramirez has starred in a number of films, including Napoleon Dynamite as Pedro Sánchez, Employee of the Month with Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, and Dax Shepard, Crank and Crank: High Voltage with Jason Statham, Searching for Mickey Fish with Daniel Baldwin, All You've Got with Ciara, and HBO's Walkout and made cameos in Nacho Libre and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Félix Lorioux

A friend of Walt Disney, who admired his work, he was then hired to illustrate Mickey stories for the French market, as well as The Silly Symphony.

George Leland

Mickey Leland, George Thomas "Mickey" Leland, (1944 – 1989), anti-poverty activist and later became a congressman

I'm the One Mama Warned You About

"I'm the One Mama Warned You About" is the title of a song written by Mickey James and Gayle Zeiler, and recorded by American country music artist Mickey Gilley.

It Works

"It Works (song)", Country song written by Mickey Cates and Mark Alan Springer, that is a single from the 1995 album In Pictures from Country music group Alabama

Japanese New Year

Famous characters like Snoopy, (2006) and other cartoon characters like Mickey and Minnie Mouse, (2008) have been especially popular in their celebrated years.

Kacey Jones

In addition, Kacey Jones Sings Mickey Newbury, a tribute to Mickey Newbury, (who influenced her early career), was released in 2006, and gave her an opportunity to explore the more serious side of her singing.

Kirk Demorest

Demorest was the editor for Walt Disney Television Animation's “Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas” where he worked for months alongside world-renowned animator Andreas Deja in crafting the first Computer-generated imagery animation versions of Disney characters: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy.

Little Talent Show

Contestants included Yara Camarena, singer Aria Johnson, comedian Garrett Gilchrist, Chavon James, Jesse Lewis, Sheila Tejada, Mickey Mello, Ismael Moreno, actor Kamahni Huck (winner), comedian Jesse Maddox, comedian Erik Anderson.

Look Who's Talking

The success of the first two films also inspired an ABC sitcom called Baby Talk, which aired from 1991–92 and featured Tony Danza as the voice of "Baby Mickey." John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, and Olympia Dukakis are the only actors to appear in all three films in the series.

Magician Mickey

Mickey puts on a magic show, but is constantly interrupted by a heckler, Donald Duck, whom he in turn tries to get his revenge on through his magic tricks.

Maidstone Corporation Transport

In the film The Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller's (Matthew McConaughey) Los Angeles apartment is decorated with route signs from Maidstone Corporation Transport buses.

Massimo Pupillo

Pupillo also directed two other horror films that same year, Bloody Pit of Horror (starring Mickey Hargitay) and "The Revenge of Lady Morgan".

Meet the Mets

The duo had earlier written "I Love Mickey," a tribute to New York Yankees centerfielder Mickey Mantle recorded in 1956 by Teresa Brewer, and “It’s a Beautiful Day for a Ballgame,” well known to fans who heard it played regularly at Dodger Stadium home games.

Michaela Shiloh

After graduating high school Mickey moved to Los Angeles and worked with major artists like Jennifer Lopez, Shontelle, Britney Spears, Pitbull (rapper), Ray J and many others, all while attending the University of Southern California.

Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy

Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy is a coming of age film, complete with suspense, drama, comedic relief and Civil War references.

Mickey the Monkey

The Clash Drummer Topper Headon, real name Nicholas Bowen Headon, earned his nickname from the band's guitarist Mick Jones due to his resemblance to Mickey the Monkey.

Mickey Vann

Mickey was the son of Hal Denver (a friend of Elvis Presley)-who once threw knives at John Major's mother-and the grandson of The Silver King, a showman with The Elephant Man among his sideshows.

Murder in Mississippi

Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 television movie which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder in the summer of 1964.

National Cartoon Museum

Among its prized possessions is the first drawing of Mickey Mouse, by Ub Iwerks for the character's film debut in Plane Crazy (1928).

Ochna serrulata

Ochna serrulata (commonly known as the mall-leaved plane, carnival ochna, Bird's Eye Bush or Mickey Mouse bush due to the plant's bright-red sepals, which resemble the face of Mickey Mouse) is an ornamental garden plant of the Ochnaceae family which is indigenous to South Africa.

Out of the Cellar

"In Your Direction" was a song that Pearcy wrote and had since Mickey Ratt; "I'm Insane" and "Scene of the Crime" were songs Crosby had co-written and performed with his pre-Ratt band, Mac Meda, featuring future Riverdogs vocalist Rob Lamothe.

Share A Dream Come True Parade

This float features Mickey Mouse inside a snow globe, with 11 sculpted figures of Mickey from films throughout the years including Steamboat Willie, Brave Little Tailor, Plane Crazy, Mickey and the Beanstalk, Mickey's Christmas Carol and Sorcerer Mickey from Fantasia.

Susan Headley

At the time she was working as a RSTS system administrator for American Telecommunications Corp (the makers of the Mickey Mouse Phone) of Los Angeles.

The Fifth Witness

The Fifth Witness is the 23rd novel by American author Michael Connelly and features the fourth starring appearance of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael "Mickey" Haller.

The Karnival Kid

Mickey's first words may have inspired the "Hot Dog" song from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

The Kenny Rogers Singles Album

# "Just Dropped In" (Mickey Newbury) 3:18
    (original version from the 1967 album The First Edition with The First Edition)

The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan

Rooney stars as Mickey Mulligan, an Irish American television studio page at the fictional International Broadcasting Company in Hollywood.

The Mouse Factory

It showed clips from various Disney cartoons and movies, hosted by celebrity guests (credited as being "Mickey's Friend"), including Johnny Brown, Charles Nelson Reilly, JoAnne Worley and many more, visiting the Disney studio (or "The Mouse Factory") and interacting with the walk-around Disney characters from the Disney Theme Parks.

The Whoopee Party

In this short Mickey Mouse and friends have a party which in Minnie Mouse is playing the piano while Mickey, Goofy (then Dippy Dawg), and Horace Horsecollar are preparing some snacks.

Tom Puss

The first "Tom Puss" story, called Het geheim der blauwe aarde (The secret of the blue earth), appeared in daily installments in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf as a replacement for the Mickey Mouse comic in 1941.

UWA Hardcore Wrestling

This event took place at the Bolton Fairgrounds in Bolton, Ontario and included the following participants: Osiris, Asylum, Bishop, Mickey Knight, Blue Jabroni, Nick Watts, Lionel Knight and Ruckus.

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