

Ron Miller had various jobs at the Disney company and Diane worked to support several institutions, such as the Music Center. It’s hard on my children, people are always calling them up for Disneyland tickets.” “I don’t like living in the wake of his celebrity. “My dad loved his celebrity - well, he’d earned it,” Miller said in 1997. In 1955, Disneyland opened, making her family name even more famous as the years went by. They married in 1954 and eventually had seven children. But she met Ron Miller, a USC football star, and left school. “I thought I might have liked to be a foreign correspondent,” she said. Miller went to USC, where she planned to major in English. Walt Disney later said the experience gave him the idea of creating a park where families could enjoy attractions together. He also took his daughters to Griffith Park, where they would ride the merry-go-round while he sat on a bench and watched. “We learned to ride bikes on that lot, learned to drive our cars in the parking lot,” she said in a first-person account on a Disney company website. Miller described her father, who died in 1966, as a workaholic, but on Sundays he would take her and her younger sister, Sharon, with him to the studio, where they would play.

She grew up in the Los Feliz area and later, as her family’s fortunes grew, in Holmby Hills. It was at a time when the animated mouse was by far Walt Disney’s most famous creation and the Disney studio was in Silver Lake. The next day, The Times declared: “Mickey Mouse has a daughter.” “That would be just a wonderful thing for the city, for the spirit, for the soul.ĭiane Marie Disney was born Dec. “I wanted something that would bear my father’s name, that would come from his wealth but not be commercial,” she said. Like many achievements in her life, she tied her work on the hall to her feelings for her father.
