Monday, September 03, 2007


Ben Ohmart is the author of the excellent biography of Paul Frees, Welcome, Foolish Mortals...The Life and Voices of Paul Frees. Paul Frees is the voice of the Ghost Host in Haunted Mansion and of Ludwig Van Drake.
Ben also publishes great books about movie celebrities. He was kind enough to send me two of them that are worth mentioning on this blog:
There's No Business Like Show Business...Was is the autobiography of actor Alan Young, who did the voice of Scrooge in Mickey's Christmas Carol.
Lingerie for Hookers in the Snow is the autobiography of Robie Lester, who for 7 years was the Disneyland Records story reader and was also the singing voice for Eva Gabor in The Aristocats.
The amount of Disney information you will find in those two books is not huge, but, if you have read Mouse Tracks - The Story of Walt Disney Records with pleasure, then you will want Lingerie for Hookers in the Snow. As for Alan Young's book, it will delight emnthusiasts of the Golden Age of the cinema.

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