Who was the original Walt Disney Tinkerbell fashioned after?

In Sir James M. Barrie’s original play, Tinker Bell is traditionally staged as a flying point of light beamed from offstage. Animator Marc Davis’ personification of her as a winged pixie with a very womanly figure was widely criticized as too sexually suggestive by Barrie purists, especially after it was rumored that she was modeled after actress Marilyn Monroe. Tink was actually modeled after Margaret Kerry, the actress who performed her live-action reference.

The popular Miss Bell went on to a second career as TV hostess for Disney’s anthology series (“Disneyland®,” “Walt Disney Presents,” “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color,” and “The Wonderful World of Disney”), and Tinker Bell still flies through the sky over Disneyland every night in the summer to herald the evening fireworks.

TinkerBell with Bell

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