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Oakland Museum of California
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Elizabeth Whipple
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 27, 2006

PIXIE DUST ALERT!
Tinker Bell visits the Oakland Museum of California Sunday, July 9

The Oakland Museum of California will host Margaret Kerry, the original Tinker Bell live-action reference model for Disney’s film Peter Pan, on Sunday, July 9, 1–4 p.m., as part of its BEHIND THE MAGIC—50 YEARS OF DISNEYLAND exhibition.

Margaret Kerry is the actress/dancer/mime chosen by Disney animator/designer Marc Davis in 1951

Actress Margaret Kerry, the live-action reference model for Walt Disney’s Tinker Bell, with a sample of her animated version.

to portray the iconic fairy. On Sunday, July 9, she will be available to chat with visitors, do informal storytelling, and sign autographs. Kerry, 77, will also show two short films from the making of Peter Pan and hand out surprises from her Tinker Bell Tent.

July 9 falls on one of the museum’s free Second Sundays. A visit with Tinker Bell is included in the separate admission for the BEHIND THE MAGIC show. For more information, call 510/238-2200 or visit www.museumca.org. Advance tickets are available at www.museumca.org/tickets.

Kerry began her career in the “Our Gang” comedies and has done lead character voice-overs in more than 600 cartoons, including “The New Three Stooges” and the “Clutch Cargo” TV cartoons. She is now working on Disney’s forthcoming Tinker Bell, due in 2007. Kerry travels widely to meet her public and loves interacting with children, who still clap their hands and believe in fairies 50 years after Tinker Bell first flew with Peter Pan.

Margaret Kerry on a Disney sound stage in 1951, taping scenes as Tinker Bell for animators of the Peter Pan film.

  These and other photos of Margaret Kerry are available via   Elizabeth Whipple. 510/238-4740 or ewhipple@museumca.org 

The Oakland Museum of California is located at Oak and 10th Streets, Oakland, one block from the Lake Merritt BART. Museum hours on Sunday are noon to 5 p.m.

Admission to BEHIND THE MAGIC is $14/$10 for seniors, students with ID, and youth (6–17); members $6/$5; and free for kids five and under.

The Oakland Museum of California is the first official tour stop for the exhibition after its launch at The Henry Ford, in 2005. BEHIND THE MAGIC was developed by The Henry Ford in association with Walt Disney Imagineering, a division of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts. Produced and managed by ExhibiTour, LLC..