1907, Boston scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer purchases a small rundown movie
theater in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Within a few years, he will own the largest theater chain in New England and begin distributing films. In 1917, he will start his own production company, which, through a series of mergers, will become part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM. (From 1989 to 2007 Disney's 5th theme park was called Disney-MGM Studios.)
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Nov.28,2010, Leslie Nielsen, the 84-year-old funnyman, who Roger Ebert
once referred to as the "Laurence Olivier of spoofs," passes away in Florida after suffering complications from pneumonia.
Nielsen starred in The Swamp Fox, a television series produced by Walt Disney that ran between 1959-1961. The series encompassed eight episodes, running as part of the Disney anthology television series. Although Nielsen's acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and films, his deadpan delivery as a doctor in the 1980 Airplane! marked a turning point in his career. He will probably be best remembered for his classic comedic roles in The Naked Gun films and Police Squad! sitcom. Nielsen credits also include a guest spot on an episode of The
Golden Girls (a Touchstone production) and the television movie Santa Who? (although not a Disney production - often aired on ABC and ABC Family networks)
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Stormalong Bay, Disney World's Beach Club Resort swimming area, holds 750,000 gallons of water ... making it possibly the largest sand-bottom pool in the world.