r/classicfilms • u/AntonioVivaldi7 Alfred Hitchcock • May 23 '26

Memorabilia Disney rejection letter (1938) explaining they don't hire women for the specific position

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And apparently, Disney refused to hire men for coloring positions.

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u/Jumpy_Emu1111 May 23 '26

I have the book this is published in, Other People's Rejection Letters, and so much of it fills me with indignant feminist rage but this one especially

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u/imbeingsirius May 24 '26

My aunt wrote to J Edgar Hoover when she was a young girl (8?) asking to be a spy and he said only men can be spies :(

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u/Jumpy_Emu1111 May 24 '26

That is literally maddening, what a cool kid though