Mickey Mouse:
the First Movie Star of the Talkies

Although Euro Disney would not be opening until 1990, this article, written in France by Hollywood costume designer Howard Greer, implied that it would have done quite well had they opened eighty-six years earlier:

“You know everyone in Hollywood?” they asked. I blushed modestly and admitted that I did.

“Don’t you want to know about the stars? I went on. “Shall I tell you about Garbo?”

“‘A smile passed across their faces.’
‘Garbo? Yes, we like her. But the star we’d love to know everything about is – Mickey Mouse!'”