New film depicting WALT DISNEY “Saving Mr. Banks” which stars TOM HANKS hides the deadly secret that killed the chain-smoking imagineer.
As countless Mouse House employees will testify Disney was well known to be a chain smoking maniac, a habit which led to the lung cancer that killed him.
Not so ironically, with Disney Studio’s ban on showing people smoking on screen, “Saving Mr. Banks”, the new flick about Walt wooing author P.L. Travers to secure the rights to her book “Mary Poppins”, will not showing him lighting up even once!
Born in 1901, future cartoonist Walter Elias Disney began smoking as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War.
While he took care to not smoke around children and he is rarely photographed smoking, his employees said he suffered from an incessant smoker’s hacking cough.