Synopsis
TINKER BELL TALKS, Tales of a Pixie Dusted Life, is a memoir of Margaret Kerry ~ and the magic of being Walt Disney’s Tinker Bell ~ a Hollywood kid-performer who turns into a Hollywood grown-up entertainer and story teller ... dozens of show-biz photos (including rare ‘Little Rascals’ images) along with unique art work to keep things even more interesting. The book is a dance through a life that’s always been tempered with FAITH ~TRUST and PIXIE DUST! The book is divided into 6 parts (so the author could keep track). PART ONE: A child-actress at Warner Brothers, Hal Roach, MGM ~ tap dancing ~ acting ~ growing up with a Hollywood Mother. PART TWO: An eager teenager in films ~ on stage ~ learning a cockamamie view of life at dance studios ~ night clubs ~ school. PART THREE: A happy-to-please teenager finding the way ~ local and network TV shows ~ RKO and Eddie Cantor and a new name. PART FOUR: Courtin’ ~ married on ABC-TV ~ cast as Tinker Bell in Disney’s Peter Pan ~ Marc Davis ~ Walt Disney ~ Disneyland Traveling for Tink to London ~ aboard the Disney Magic. PART FIVE: Cast as the Mermaid in Peter Pan ~ 600 voice-over jobs for cartoons ~ growing a family ~ starting a riot on campus ~ work with The 3 Stooges ~ Andy Griffith ~ George Clinton ~ The Lone Ranger ~ Public Relations exec. PART SIX: At USC ~ KKLA 99.5 FM ~ finding my family ~ losing a husband and finding a new husband ~ Tink’s trips and stories ~ then ... suddenly I’m 80 and attending a birthday bash!!
About the Author
About the author ... MARGARET KERRY It’s fun to be Tinker Bell’s alter ego ... especially when I explain to an audience that I am the actress, dancer and pantomimist who was the animator’s model for Tink. I performed all of her scenes before the cameras at Disney Studios! She has affected my life. I often dream about throwing caution to the wind ~ doing just what I want to do just when I want to do it ... however, my actual basic personality is more like the comforting and caring Wendy, “mother” for the Lost Boys and Peter Pan. Working in the entertainment industry without interruption since 1934, I’ve had a head start on becoming a performer and as a Scots-Irish lass .... a story teller (in the nicest sense, of course). SOME Personal HIGH LIGHTS I was adopted when I was four and went to work at Warner Brothers ~ continued as a child actress in films ~ my younger days found me appearing in films at RKO. MGM and performing on a new thing called television at ABC and KTLA ~ on to Disney Studio as Tinker Bell and the Red Headed Mermaid in Neverland’s Lagoon ~ In my middle years, I found my four brothers then the rest of my family ~ I did hundreds of voice-overs for TV cartoons and produced animation. In the last three decades, I’ve worked on radio for twelve years ~ lost my first husband after thirty-three rather rocky years ~ raised three (wonderful) kids ~ lost my second husband after twelve and a half fabulous years and I’m still going strong traveling and performing all over the United States. Oh, yes, a warning to those who are anxious to read about my deviant behavior. I’ve never had as much as a traffic ticket for a moving violation. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed, though. My life has been “a romp,”
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