Joe Grant
JOE GRANT: I was born in New York on May 15, 1908, and we were living at Riverside Drive at the time. When I was two years old, I was brought out here and spent most of my life in California. [My father] was the art director for William Randolph Hearst, mostly in the Citizen Kane era. He took care of the New York American, of the New York Journal, and of one paper down in Georgia. Finally we came out here together. It was a matter of domestic strife. There were problems. He became addicted to alcohol, and his career... He was very close to William Randolph Hearst for many years, but it sort of deteriorated. He was an extremely talented and precocious artist on his own. I have one sister. Every time there was a problem, my grandfather, who was quite well off, would send for my mother to come out here. Sometimes she would stay east. I’d come out with my father. It was a sort of a mobile existence. […]
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- 1 - Carman Maxwell (Bob Thomas)
- 2 - Dick Lundy (Mark Mayerson and Leonard Maltin)
- 3 - Phil Klein (Leonard Maltin)
- 4 - Zach Schwartz (Leonard Maltin)
- 5 - Ray Patterson (John Culhane)
- 6 - Marge Champion (Didier Ghez)
- 7 - Joe Grant
- 8 - Bob Jones (Dave Smith)
- 9 - Bob Baker (Jim Korkis and Didier Ghez)
- 10 - A Life Rendering - The Unrealized Art of Richmond “Dick” Kelsey (Vincent Randle)
- 11 - Eric Knight at the Walt Disney Studio (David Culbert)
- 12 - The Holling C. Holling Letters
- 13 - Bill Justice (John Culhane)
- 14 - Irvin Graham (John Culhane)
- 15 - Lillian Disney (Michael Broggie)
- 16 - Carson Van Osten (Alberto Becattini)
- 17 - Bruce Bushman (George Sherman)
- 18 - Bob Mattey (George Sherman)
- 19 - Chris Mueller Jr. (Dave Smith)
- 20 - Arthur J. Vitarelli (John G. West)
- 21 - Alice Davis (Charles Solomon)
- 22 - Lucile Bosché (Didier Ghez)
- 23 - Joe Fowler (Harry Wessel)
- 24 - Eddie Sotto (Didier Ghez)
