Bio: In 1934, he had lunch with a former McKinley High School and Chicago Art Institute classmate at the Tam O’Shanter (a restaurant near the Disney Hyperion studio that was so favored by Disney staffers that it was known as their “studio commissary”). His classmate was Bianca Majolie, and she so impressed Walt with her artistic talents and story skills, that he hired her as his story department’s first woman employee
