tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20219340.post4555732349501903249..comments2024-03-11T08:05:41.425-07:00Comments on Disney History: Didier Ghezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442745682397929615noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20219340.post-66581936525499888692011-07-11T09:42:26.182-07:002011-07-11T09:42:26.182-07:00I know Mary Carey co-authored "adult" bo...I know Mary Carey co-authored "adult" books. She and my father George Sherman co-authored a book called "A Compendium of Bunk" exposing the con behind most carny games at Fairs and Carnivals. My father was Head of Publications at Disney and his boss was O.B. Johnston. I think it is likely Mary would have co-authored O.B.'s book.Cathy Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11364907559752243378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20219340.post-76170151872154341162011-07-11T09:29:13.378-07:002011-07-11T09:29:13.378-07:00I know Mary Carey co-authored adult books with my ...I know Mary Carey co-authored adult books with my father George Sherman one was called "A Compendium of Bunk" that exposed how carnival games are rigged to the advantage of the carny. Since both worked under OB Johnston it is a likely pairing.Cathy Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11364907559752243378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20219340.post-91043954469233567932011-07-06T00:21:16.968-07:002011-07-06T00:21:16.968-07:00Thanks John! Out of curiosity: how did you manage ...Thanks John! Out of curiosity: how did you manage to find the information?Didier Ghezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05442745682397929615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20219340.post-56511989229168954642011-07-06T00:04:09.032-07:002011-07-06T00:04:09.032-07:00Let the archive librarian know that you are lookin...Let the archive librarian know that you are looking for Box 139, which mostly contains legal contracts, correspondence, and the like. Specifically, you want Folder 20, within, which only seems to hold the Johnston manuscript.John Stanley Donaldsonhttp://www.incanio.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20219340.post-18427682609798203202011-07-05T05:44:16.289-07:002011-07-05T05:44:16.289-07:00John,
While you are right when it comes to Mary&#...John,<br /><br />While you are right when it comes to Mary's background, I believe the document is extremely likely to have been written for an adult audience based on the type of magazine in which it was released in Japan.<br /><br />What I think probably happened is that O.B. got to know Mary when he was Head of Disney Consumer Products and asked her for help to write his autobiography, probably based on a series of interviews.<br /><br />We will see.<br /><br />DidierDidier Ghezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05442745682397929615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20219340.post-39143372227577161382011-07-05T01:39:44.278-07:002011-07-05T01:39:44.278-07:00Unfortunately, I think you will find that this &qu...Unfortunately, I think you will find that this "book manuscript" is not an autobiography of O.B. Johnston; given that the mentioned Mary Carey only wrote, or co-wrote, juvenile titles. I would be surprised if it is something else.<br /><br />Mary began her career with Walt Disney in 1955, writing for the Mickey Mouse Club magazine, and for the next fourteen years, as assistant editor of publications, practically every novelization of a Disney motion picture, such as "The Story of Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins," would be by her. <br /><br />She then wrote for the "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators" series, again, all juvenile; crafting such tales as the "Mystery of the Flaming Footprints," and the "Mystery of the Creepshow Crooks."<br /><br />Mary Carey died in Ventura, California in 1994, one week after her sixty-ninth birthday.John Stanley Donaldsonhttp://www.incanio.comnoreply@blogger.com