Post * b9Vb0 — Curious Curator

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TIL of composer Frank Churchill, who worked on early Disney films Snow White, Bambi and Dumbo, winning an Oscar for Dumbo. In 1942, just months before the release of Bambi, he shot himself, purportedly "at the piano." He received two posthumous Oscar nominations for his work on the film.

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