The Disney Studio, like other animation studios during the Golden Age of Hollywood Animation, was not always kind to women who wanted to become animators.
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Trying to track down more information on these ladies and others who may have worked with them led me to yet another mystery: Retta Davidson. Retta Davidson had a girlhood ambition. She loved art and wanted to be an art teacher.
However, in July 1939, when she was only 17 years old and had just graduated from high school, she was hired by the Disney Studio as a painter for the feature film Pinocchio. She worked at the old Hyperion Studio location.
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