Walt Disney Week: His housekeeper got shares and became a millionaire

Walt Disney Week: His housekeeper got shares and became a millionaire

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fact of the Day, Day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
It's Walt Disney week at Fact of the day, learning
about the man Walt Disney. I'm just looking at this
how I'm about I will at one stage in today's
factor that they talk about a property the owned that
was called the Holmby Films Estate at recently when what
year was this? I know that was twenty thirteen itself
for ninety million dollars, so I'm.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Mentioning it far apart.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's worth significantly more now given property prices around the
world of skyrocket in the last eleven years.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Today's the fact of the Day about Walt Disney.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
It involves his uh light sort of lifelong living housekeeper
Falmer Howard. She died sixteen day shy even of her
eightieth birthday. She was born into poverty. She was one
of five children in an Idaho fan Her mother died
during childbirth to one of her younger siblings. She tried college,

(01:06):
she had to drop out due to lack of money.
She moved to la where she worked did office work
in clean houses, and she was cleaning Walt Disney's house,
and he's just like, this woman is the real life
Mary Poppins.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
That's how he described it.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
And he loved her, so she moved in a living
job at the Holmby Films Holmby Hills Estate fun nineteen
fifty one. That's the property I was referring to before
that sold ninety million dollars in twenty thirteen. And his
two children, Diane and Sharon Disney.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
It's just weird that Sharon Disney.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Sharon Sharon Disney, yeah, and Diane Disney.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
It's just so unusual. But that it is a last name.
It's yeah, so crazy, Sharon Disney.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
There were the Cody oh my god, yeah, Bloody Darry
out the side, Sharon Disney, the housekeeper that had before
Falmer Howard.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
I didn't like the children and banish them from the kitchen,
but that Falma, Yeah, I loved having the kids around,
full dinner with a roast fresh pie. Walt Disney loved
her because she always kept the fridge stocked with hot dogs.
Apparently he just get home from a long day of
disneying and love a couple of cold hot dogs from
the fridge. And every Christmas he would give her a

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bonus and part of the bonus included shares and the.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Walt Disney Company. Oh this is my god. She's going
to get out of poverty, isn't she. She Well, she
was out it, she lived in she was right.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, So when she died she had one hundred and
ninety three thousand Walt Disney shares.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh my god, my name.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
She had at the time of her death ten million
US dollars and shares.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Does she have family?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
She she had a fifty five year old son from
an early marriage who was in a home for the
developmentally disabled. So it got split between him and a
foundation that helped kids in the same situation that she
grew up in.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Oh my, she is an angel?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
What an angel?

Speaker 1 (03:07):
An angel of a woman?

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Sharon Disney Yet, well, Sharon Disney's Walt Disney's so she
probably millions.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
So, but in her personality and essence was the spark
for Mary.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Mary Poppins came out before.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Oh okay, but he said it's just so he created Mary.
He didn't create Mary because she did the movie. Yeah,
there's a movie about it, right, Thompson. Yeah, And she
didn't want them to be animated penguins in the Mary Poppins,
she written the book that she'd written, the book that
it was based on. He wanted to turn it into
a movie. Oh my god, what this is a beautiful story.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Beautiful story. Imagine any shares for Christmas. You'll be like
thank you. Yeah, oh my god, thanks yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
One day. I don't know. Is it like logging?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
You can we save when you haven't for a while
and you're either like that's good or that's bad.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, that's great or that's not great.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
So today's fact to the day is Disney's housekeeper when
she died, had ten million dollars worth of Disney shares.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
The fact of the day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
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