Myron "Grim" Natwick was an American artist, animator, and film director.
16 Facts About Grim Natwick
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Grim Natwick was well known even in high school for his artwork and his poetry.
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Grim Natwick found that he was good at this type of work and contacted other publishers in Chicago, eventually illustrating the covers for many song sheets, usually in no more than two colors.
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Grim Natwick graduated in late summer of 1928, moving back to New York.
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Grim Natwick is best known for creating the Fleischer Studio's most popular character, Betty Boop, under the direction of Max Fleischer.
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Grim Natwick would remain one the primary animators of Betty Boop from the Dizzy Dishes to Bimbo's Initiation, his last cartoon for Fleischer's before moving to the West Coast.
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Grim Natwick worked for a number of American animation studios, including the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walter Lantz Productions, UPA, and the Richard Williams studio.
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Grim Natwick was offered partnership in the studio but declined in order to work at Disney.
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On November 12th 1934 Grim Natwick was hired to work at Walt Disney Animation Studio.
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At Disney, Grim Natwick became a lead animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and was the person chiefly responsible for animating its titular heroine, Snow White.
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Grim Natwick was given some of the studio's top assistants to work with including, Marc Davis, Lester Novros and Jack Campbell.
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Grim Natwick was responsible for animating some of the most iconic scenes in the film, including the sequences where Snow White cleans the house to Whistle While You Work, the scene where she dances with the dwarfs, and her singing "Someday My Prince Will Come".
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Grim Natwick helped to animate Mickey Mouse in Fantasia, Mr Magoo, Popeye, Felix the Cat and many other 1940s and 1950s cartoon greats.
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Grim Natwick died on October 7,1990 in Los Angeles, California of pneumonia and heart disease, two months after celebrating his 100th birthday, with a party with friends such as Shamus Culhane.
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Recently, Grim Natwick's name is an inspiration to a character in the 2017 video game Cuphead, a run-and-gun game that has a style and tone of 1930s cartoons.
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Grim Natwick's name was adapted to a dragon character named Grim Matchstick, who has a similar stutter and speech to that of Natwick himself.