During his thirty-odd years around Hollywood Walt Disney has collected such a flock of prizes that when Bob Hope handed him his last two Oscars at the recent Academy Awards, he had to stifle a yawn. But it's beginning to look as if the biggest prize Walt ever captured is a tree-tall, trap-lipped, steely-eyed Texan named Fess Elisha Parker.
"Big" is a moderate word for Fess. Physically, he rears six feet, five inches from his number fourteen boots to his wild mane of brown hair, with 210 pounds of lean, lively muscle in between. In personality, Fess seems to combine the virility of Gary Cooper, the rocky force of John Wayne, the gentleness of Jimmy Stewart and the quiet dignity of Gregory Peck — with the home-spun saltiness of Will Rogers thrown in for good measure. […]
