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He changed my life entirely. And obviously, as all those books tell you, the minute you take your eye off the ball and just enjoy this thing, then the other stuff shows up. I have the loveliest boyfriend now. I found him very late in my life, but he was worth waiting for. And it was really fun waiting. She giggles. I cannot believe the shit that I did to keep it together. In the supermarket, the person who gave me a place to go and breastfeed, who gave me a clean T-shirt because I had leaked through the one I was in.
Driver carries her laptop to her kitchen, where she must roast a chicken to blend into soup to take to her mother, the interior designer Gaynor Churchward, who has been rushed into hospital and is seriously ill.
This is a shock — should we stop the interview? Is Minnie OK? She is clearly devastated, privately, but determined to honour her work commitments. She says her mother would absolutely insist that the show must go on. But I love the grind!
The grind is why I get out of bed in the morning! But she is fuelled by the idea that something is impossible. Following this, from up to , Ruth Clifford provided the character's voice. Disney felt that each Disney character should have an official voice, to maintain the integrity and consistency of the characters.
There were roughly people that auditioned for the part, among them being Russi Taylor. While working on a Radio Disney project with Bill Farmer , Wayne and Russi spent time after hours to discuss the job and became fast friends. They eventually married in , and remained a couple until Allwine's death in After Taylor's passing, Kaitlyn Robrock assumed the role.
Minnie made her debut when she starred alongside Mickey Mouse in the cartoon short Plane Crazy , which was screened to test audiences on May 15 , Minnie and Mickey take a flight on the latter's makeshift aircraft. In during which, Mickey repeatedly tries to romance Minnie but she politely refuses these particular advances. The next film featuring the couple was The Gallopin' Gaucho.
It was the second of their series to be produced but only the third to be released on March 14 , In it, Minnie was employed as the barmaid and dancer of Cantina Argentina , a bar and restaurant established in the pampas of Argentina.
She performs the tango for Mickey the gaucho and Black Pete the outlaw. Both flirt with her but the latter intends to abduct her while the former obliges in saving the "damsel in distress" from the villain. All three characters acted as strangers first being introduced to each other.
They appear together again in Steamboat Willie , the third short of the series to be produced but released first on November 18 , Pete was featured as the captain of the steamboat, Mickey as a crew of one and Minnie as their single passenger. The commercial success of Steamboat Willie helped introduce Mickey and Minnie into the audience. Twelve more films featuring Mickey were produced in , but Minnie only co-starred in seven of them and was mentioned in an eighth.
The first of them was The Barn Dance , first released on December 30 , Minnie stands at the center of attention as Mickey and Pete rival each other in order to win her favor. Both offer to pick her up for the dance but she chooses Pete's newly purchased automobile over Mickey's horse-cart. When the automobile breaks down she resorts to going with Mickey.
The latter proves a clumsy dancing partner, repeatedly stepping on her feet, and so she turns to Pete again. She is surprised when Mickey asks for another dance and seems to be light on his feet. However, she is disgusted when Pete points that his rival had placed a balloon in his shorts. She resumed dancing with Pete while Mickey is reduced to crying on the dance floor.
Minnie proves to be rather demanding as a partner in a romantic relationship. Mickey obviously has yet to claim her as his girlfriend by this point. The Opry House , first released on March 28 , , was the first short to feature Mickey but not Minnie. A poster, however, mentions Minnie as being a member of the "Yankee Doodle Girls". This later group of female performers remained as unseen characters and were apparently short-lived.
Minnie appears again in When the Cat's Away , first released on April 11 , She is attending a party with Mickey along with several other mice. The short was unusual in the depiction of Mickey and Minnie with the size and part of the behavior common in regular mice. The set standard both before and after this short was to depict them as having the size of a rather short human being. Minnie was seen again in The Plowboy , first released on May 9 , , where she is featured as a farm girl and gets Mickey to milk her cow Clarabelle for her.
When Mickey presents her with a bucket full of milk and proceeds to kiss her, Minnie answers by knocking the bucket on his head. This in front of his horse Horace Horsecollar who is just making his debut. Minnie obviously was not very appreciative of Mickey's affection at the time.
Their attempt at farming life would prove short-lived. Minnie then appears as a fiddle player in Mickey's Choo-Choo June 26 , Her next appearance was arguably more significant.
Mickey then proceeds in explaining his reaction to Minnie's call. The song firmly establishes Mickey and Minnie as a couple and expresses the importance Minnie holds for her partner.
The song would go on to become the theme song for their series as well as the theme to a Disney prime-time television series The Mouse Factory and Mickey Mouse Works which also featured the song as a recurring theme in many of its shorts. Minnie was soon shown herself to be the Damsel-in-Distress. In Wild Waves , Minnie was washed off the beach but Mickey rescued her.
Despite being saved, Minnie was left frightened by the experience, leading her to cry. With Mickey and his sea friends' performance, Minnie finally cheered up and made Mickey her hero. Minnie would appear in a number of shorts throughout the s, co-starring alongside Mickey. In , she appeared in the short On Ice , which was her first appearance in a color cartoon. The short The Fox Hunt was the final appearance of Minnie's early, Ub Iwerks design in the original theatrical run.
In the late s and early s, Minnie was redesigned alongside Mickey, given full eyes, a pear-shaped body as opposed her round body in previous shorts, and a cream face replacing the white tone previously used. The first short to show Minnie's new design was the short Mickey's Surprise Party , which was one of the few theatrical shorts that focused more on Minnie than Mickey.
Around this time, Mickey became less of a rascally adventurer and more of an Everyman character. As this shift in personality became increasingly utilized by Walt Disney and the animators, Minnie's significance would start to diminish. She would continue to appear sporadically as either Mickey's love interest or a supporting character that sets the plot for other characters such as Pluto and Figaro who famously became her pet cat after his popular demand grew from the animated feature, Pinocchio.
Her last appearance in the original theatrical run of Disney animated shorts would be a brief cameo at the end of the short Pluto's Christmas Tree. In the following decades, Minnie would make occasional appearances on Walt Disney's television series and at the Disneyland theme park and later Walt Disney World as a mascot alongside Mickey.
After a long hiatus from animated feature films or short films, Minnie would reappear in Mickey's Christmas Carol in , though in an extremely minor role as the wife of Bob Cratchit played by Mickey as well as a non-speaking appearance. In , Minnie was given her first starring role in the television special, Totally Minnie.
This also marked the debut of Russi Taylor , who would go on to voice Minnie for over three decades. She also made brief appearances in the television special Mickey's 60th Birthday. Also in , Minnie made a non-speaking appearance as a guest at the 60th Academy Awards ceremony, sitting alongside Donald and Daisy as Mickey announces the winner of Best Animated Short.
In , Minnie played a more significant role as the co-star in Runaway Brain. In the short, a monstrous creature called Julius fell for her, forcing Mickey to come to her rescue. One such cartoon had Mickey once again dreaming that Minnie became his wife he had dreamt this previously in Mickey's Nightmare while the others were having a picnic. Minnie was given a starring role in the animated short, Electric Holiday.
In this story, Minnie spotted a beautiful dress in a store window, and this leads to a daydream where Minnie envisions herself as a prospering supermodel living in the city of Paris. Fortunately, Mickey just so happens to buy it for her, and she is very happy. In , Minnie appeared in the theatrical short Get A Horse! The short utilized a combination of archived dialogue from Marcellite Garner and new dialogue courtesy of Russi Taylor.
Also in , a new series of Mickey Mouse shorts premiered, with several episodes starring Minnie in her own solo cartoons. On January 23 , , Minnie served as the inspiration for the "Rock the Dots" art and fashion show, taking place in Downtown Los Angeles , California. To coincide with National Polka Dot Day, the interactive exhibit celebrated the aesthetics of Minnie's signature look by displaying an array of apparel designed by various artists around the world, all inspired by Minnie.
On September 27 , , Disney released The Art of Minnie Mouse , a book centering Minnie that features reinterpretations of her character design courtesy of various Disney artists, designers, illustrators, and animators from around the world. The book also features an extensive look at Minnie's filmography with a visual timeline. On June 22 , , the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced that Minnie Mouse would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in , forty years after Mickey, and on the year of her 90th anniversary.
In Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas , Minnie is Mickey's hard-working girlfriend who, despite her hard work, is in debt with bills and tries not to let Mickey know. She works a large store owned by Mortimer Mouse. She plans to use her Christmas bonus to buy a gift for Mickey, but she ends up receiving a fruitcake.
She ends up trading her prized watch for a case for Mickey's beloved harmonica, but Mickey trades his harmonica for a chain for Minnie's watch. In the end, though, they realize their love is enough and they enjoy Christmas together.
In the direct-to-video movie Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers , Minnie plays the role of the ruling princess of France and likely the daughter of King Louis XIII and Queen Anne , since this film can be considered a sequel to the original Three Musketeers story , who continually daydreams about finding her true love, who turns out to be Mickey.
She's also the only monarch getting in the way of the plans of Pete, who can't take over the kingdom if he cannot get rid of her. Interestingly, for this particular film, Minnie is drawn with hair bangs, which do not appear in any later cartoons. In this film, Princess Minnie wants nothing more than to find her true love in life, however, she must put this dream on hold after she escapes a murder plot by the Beagle Boys. She demands that her captain of the musketeers Pete, find her bodyguards.
Unknowing to Minnie, Pete is the mastermind behind the murder plot and desires to rule France as king. To avoid a threat to his plan, Pete hires three janitors, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, to be the musketeer bodyguards, believing they'll do a terrible job.
Minnie then quickly falls in love with Mickey as soon as she sees him. After being rescued from a kidnapping scheme, Mickey and Minnie embrace their forbidden love on an evening date across the kingdom. That night, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are kidnapped by Pete and his minions.
The next night, Minnie and Daisy head over to the Grand Opera. There, she learns Pete's plans and is captured.
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