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A name no one here will know - Ruthie Tompson has died

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oragator
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Read this bio, talk about a remarkable career. And last of the golden age folks? She was 111, and helped animate Snow White in 1937!

https://deadline.com/2021/10/ruthie-tompson-dies-legendary-disney-animator-was-111-1234854264/
ABattJudd
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AG
Wow. What a life!
"Well, if you can’t have a great season, at least ruin somebody else’s." - Olin Buchanan
Tanya 93
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The Rescuers is probably in my top 3 favorite Disney movies ever
NoahAg
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I wonder what she died from?
oragator
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Just on some reflection after posting this, I have mentioned before I was a history major so I admittedly nerd out on this stuff, but living pieces of history like her fascinate and amaze me.
She would have remembered WWI and the Spanish Flu. Heck she was alive when Titanic sank. When the stock market crashed she was already around 20. Then depression, WW2 she was in her thirties when it broke out, the Cold War, civil rights movement she was already in her fifties when that bill passed in '64.
And that's before the fact that as a kid she was one of the muses that helped WD create animation and then was there from the first animated Disney movie onwards.

Just can't imagine having a life like that. But I guess that's why even Bob Iger took the time to say a few words on her passing. Really remarkable.
Fenrir
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She was involved in most of the original golden age of Disney, even if uncredited. That's a stunning filmography.
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