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Eldest child of Walt Disney and his wife Lillian Bounds Disney

Diane Disney Miller
Diane Disney in 1951
Born	Diane Marie Disney (1933-12-xviii)Dec eighteen, 1933 Los Angeles, California, U.South.
Died	November 19, 2013(2013-11-19) (anile 79) Napa, California, U.S.
Spouse	Ron W. Miller (one thousand. 1954)
Children	7
Parent(s)	Walt Disney Lillian Bounds Disney
Relatives	Encounter Disney family
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Diane Marie Disney-Miller (December 18, 1933 – November 19, 2013)^[one] was the eldest daughter of Walt Disney and his wife Lillian Bounds Disney.^[2] Diane co-founded the Walt Disney Family Museum aslope her family. She was president of the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Family Foundation. The museum, which opened in 2009, was established to promote and inspire creativity and innovation and celebrate and report the life of Walt Disney.^[3]

Early on life and marriage [edit]

Diane Marie Disney was built-in in Los Angeles on December 18, 1933. She attended Los Feliz Grammer School earlier moving to Immaculate Centre High Schoolhouse (Los Angeles) for junior high school and high school.^[4] Disney went on to study English at the University of Southern California.^[5]

When she was twenty years old, Disney was introduced to 21-year-old University of Southern California educatee Ron Miller, a member of the USC Trojans football team, on a bullheaded date after a University of California–USC game. They married in a small Episcopal church ceremony in Santa Barbara on May ix, 1954.^[6] Together, the couple had seven children whom they were survived by: Christopher (b. 1954), Joanna (b. 1956), Tamara (b. 1957), Jennifer (later Miller-Goff; b. 1960), Walter (b. 1961), Ronald (b. 1963), and Patrick (b. 1967). Her husband then served in the Ground forces and played professional football game before Walt Disney convinced him to piece of work for the Walt Disney Studios, and ascended from film directing and production to president and CEO of what is now The Walt Disney Company.

Philanthropy [edit]

Miller was a patron of the arts, likewise as a lifelong classical music enthusiast and a generous philanthropist.^[seven]

Miller published a series of eight pieces for the Sabbatum Evening Post in 1956 titled "My Dad, Walt Disney", co-written with Pete Martin.^[eight] In 1957 she published the book The Story of Walt Disney.^[ix] Later on her married man was removed from his executive position at Walt Disney Productions in 1984, Miller began to limit her involvement with the company.^[x] In an interview with Miller in 2005, she recalled that she and Sharon lived a typical life, equally both parents were very protective, caring and loving.^[11]

Later on her husband joined the Disney visitor, Miller traveled to Napa Valley with her mother, Lillian, to visit several wineries. The trip inspired Miller to start a vineyard, with the possibility of a winery. With the children grown, Ron left the company and the entertainment industry in 1984. Both he and Diane went on to develop the renowned Silverado Vineyards Winery in Napa, which became their home. In 1976, the family purchased a big property forth the Silverado Trail in the Stags Leap District. They planted Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay and started making wine in 1981.^[12] They expanded the winery to only using estate-grown grapes, and Diane helped create a dwelling and a family unit-like temper rather than just a business.

Miller was instrumental in pushing ahead with the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. In 1988, Lillian Disney, her female parent, announced plans to contribute $50 one thousand thousand to the Los Angeles Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles, which Miller would afterwards come up to support throughout her life. More than than 70 architectural firms submitted proposals to the head manager, Frank Gehry. Past 1996, the project was almost expressionless, but Miller persuaded Gehry to motility frontward with information technology, despite issues with poor management and disagreements over the blueprint, and Los Angeles County officials' attempts to cancel it. It was supposed to exist worth $ten million by 1997. Diane arranged for the Walt Disney Family Foundation to contribute about $25 million to go on Gehry in command, and the hall finally opened in 2003, at the price of $247 million. Although Lillian Disney died in 1997 and never saw a concert there, Miller continued to support the concert hall.^[xiii]

Afterward devoting her earlier life to raising her seven children, Miller undertook an active advancement to document the life and accomplishments of her begetter, who she perceived to have been the subject area of poorly researched biographies and inaccurate rumors. She was also concerned that his name had become more of a corporate identity than a reference to the man himself. In 2001, the Walt Disney Family Foundation released The Human Backside the Myth, a documentary film near Walt Disney's life featuring interviews with his colleagues, peers, and family unit. In 2009, Miller co-founded the Walt Disney Family Museum with her son Walter Elias Disney Miller, who is a pic producer, and Miller was too the President of the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Family Foundation at the time of her death, which is a nonprofit system that owns and operates the Walt Disney Family unit Museum, located in Presidio in San Francisco.^[14]

In 2015, the inaugural Diane Disney Miller Lifetime Achievement Honor was created to honor the Museum's founder, to recognize those who have made an outstanding impact in the field of arts, pedagogy, community interest, or technological advancements.^[15]

Honorees [edit]

2015 - Richard Sherman^[16]
2016 - Marty Sklar^[17]
2017 - John Lasseter^[eighteen]

Decease and dedication [edit]

Miller died on November 19, 2013, at age 79 (less than one calendar month short of her 80th birthday) from medical complications that adult after a autumn.

The movie Saving Mr. Banks is dedicated to her retention; Miller died soon before information technology opened theatrically.^[xix]

Ron and Diane Disney Miller received a special cheers in Inside Out (2015).^[xx]

References [edit]

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^ Diverseness Staff (Nov nineteen, 2013). "Diane Disney Miller, Philanthropist and Daughter of Walt Disney, Dies at 79". Variety. Variety Media, LLC. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
^ admin (November 19, 2013). "The Walt Disney Family Museum Mourns the Loss of Diane Disney Miller". The Walt Disney Family unit Museum . Retrieved December 9, 2017.
^ Korkis, Jim (November twenty, 2013). "Remembering Diane Disney Miller". mouseplanet.com . Retrieved November 19, 2021. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Slotnik, Daniel E. (November xx, 2013). "Diane Disney Miller, 79, Keeper of Walt'southward Flame, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
^ Brianne (May eight, 2017). "Ron and Diane Get Married". The Walt Disney Family Museum. Archived from the original on Dec ix, 2017. Retrieved Dec 9, 2017.
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^ Disney, Walt; Jackson, Kathy Merlock (2006). Walt Disney: Conversations . Up of Mississippi. p. 25. ISBN9781578067138.
^ Mosley, Leonard (1990). Disney'south Globe. Scarborough House. p. 15. ISBN9781589796560.
^ Slotnik, Daniel East. (Nov 20, 2013). "Diane Disney Miller, 79, Keeper of Walt's Flame, Dies". The New York Times . Retrieved June 15, 2015.
^ Holzer, Leo. ""He was always grandpa" : The Miller children recollect Walt Disney". jimhillmedia.com . Retrieved May 24, 2018.
^ "Silverado Vineyards Cofounder Diane Disney Miller Dies | News | News & Features | Wine Spectator". WineSpectator.com. Archived from the original on May 24, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
^ Slotnik, Daniel East. (Nov 20, 2013). "Diane Disney Miller, 79, Keeper of Walt'due south Flame, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
^ "Silverado Vineyards". world wide web.silveradovineyards.com. Archived from the original on June 9, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
^ Brianne (Baronial fifteen, 2017). "The Walt Disney Family unit Museum 2017 Gala Honoring John Lasseter". The Walt Disney Family Museum. Archived from the original on December 12, 2017. Retrieved Dec 11, 2017.
^ "Disney Legend and Songwriter Richard Sherman to receive Diane Disney Miller Lifetime Achievement Laurels at The Walt Disney Family unit Museum's Showtime Fundraiser Gala" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 21, 2015. Retrieved Dec 11, 2017.
^ "The Walt Disney Family Museum Gala" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 9, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
^ Brianne (Baronial 15, 2017). "The Walt Disney Family Museum 2017 Gala Honoring John Lasseter". The Walt Disney Family Museum. Archived from the original on December 12, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
^ Jay Weston (December 9, 2013). "Tom Hanks IS Walt Disney in "Saving Mr. Banks"!". The Huffington Post . Retrieved July xx, 2014.
^ Disney/Pixar (June 19, 2015). Disney/Pixar Inside Out Cinestory Comic. Joe Books Ltd. ISBN9781987955118.