Ruth Shellhorn: Why This Disneyland Designer Deserves Disney Legend Status This Year

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Since 1987 the Disney Legend has been the highest award given by The Walt Disney Company. It is essentially the Disney Hall of Fame, with Legend status bestowed upon dozens of people who have had a significant impact on the Disney company over the last 100 years. Many major Hollywood stars, animators, executives, and Imagineers have received the title. For the last 15 years, new Legends have been named as part of the D23 Expo, and with the next event planned for this August, we know a new class is coming.

Even though so much of the early decades of Disney were male-dominated, several brilliant women who helped build Disneyland have been named Legends. But, there is one woman who, nearly 70 years after Disneyland opened, has not received this recognition. It’s well past time to make Ruth Shellhorn a Disney Legend.

Walt Disney and Ruth Shellhorn, YouTube screenshot

(Image credit: YouTube – Landslide 2020: Women Take the Lead – Kelly Comras on Disneyland)

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