"It's one of the most legendary feuds of the golden age of Hollywood. Alfred Hitchcock, the celebrated director dubbed the "Master of Suspense," wanted to make one of his thrillers in Disneyland. Walt Disney, fiercely protective of the Happiest Place on Earth, got wind of the project and allegedly banned the director from the park. "The Blind Man" was a real project that never happened."
"As far back as his earliest works, Disney embraced dark themes in his projects. One of his earliest shorts, 1929's "Skeleton Dance," featured skeletons gleefully tossing their bones around a graveyard. Just a few years later, an evil queen was putting a death curse on Snow White in 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," and the winged monster Chernabog presided over his demonic realm in 1940's "Fantasia.""
An alleged feud emerged when Alfred Hitchcock wanted to film a thriller in Disneyland and Walt Disney reportedly banned him from the park. The planned project, The Blind Man, existed but never materialized, with actual motivations likely less scandalous than legends suggest. Disney had long embraced dark themes in animated work, from Skeleton Dance to Snow White's death curse and Chernabog in Fantasia. In 1946 Disney considered collaborating with Hitchcock on an animated Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, writing that it would be a surprising new departure. The two men otherwise expressed mutual respect, though Psycho later altered Disney's view of Hitchcock for some biographers.
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