Virginia Davis

Virginia Margaret Davis ( born December 31, 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri; † August 15, 2009 in Corona, California ) was an American child actress.

Life

At the age of two years, Davis received dance and drama classes; a promotional film for Warneke 's Bread, in which they participated, led to her discovery by Walt Disney.

1924 and 1925 Davis was the first non - subscribed Star for Walt Disney at that time the studio, the Winkler Pictures; put them in the Alice Comedies are the main person in 13 short films that mixed animated and real parts of the film.

The 5 - to 10-minute one-act play revolved around the adventures of a little girl in the cartoon land. The first, Alice 's Wonderland, still produced for the Laugh- O -Gram Studios, could not be shown in theaters for legal reasons; now it is available on DVD.

Davis left after these thirteen films - including Alice 's Wild West Show and Alice 's Day at Sea - the series who did carry Disney with about 40 other films. They even continued to work on stage, such as during a tour along the west coast of Elmer Rice Street Scene, and appeared in a few films of various film studios. So it was, for example, in Three on a match from 1932 can be seen in the role that shows Joan Blondell as a child. Until 1946, she continued her career with occasional small roles in movies and early television shows.

After graduating, she worked as an interior designer for the magazine Living for Young Homemakers; In 1963 she was broker in Connecticut, later in Southern California.

Time of their lives remained Davis in contact with the Walt Disney Company and has performed at many festivals and conventions; In 1998, she was honored as a Disney Legend. In 2005, she received the Winsor McCay Award.

Davis was married since 1943 and had two daughters.