11 Facts About Sylvia Holland

Sylvia Holland worked for Disney in the 1930s and 1940s and is especially known for her work on the 1940 film Fantasia.

Sylvia Holland's father was an ordained clergyman and musician who organized an all-women string orchestra.

In Canada, Sylvia Holland joined the Architectural Institute of British Columbia.

In 1928, Sylvia Holland, who was pregnant with their son Boris, traveled to England to see her parents leaving her husband behind at home.

Sometime later, her son developed the same ailment as Frank, in which Sylvia Holland was advised by a doctor to seek a drier climate.

Excited at the news, Sylvia Holland applied to work for Disney and was granted an interview with Walt Disney.

Around this same time, Sylvia Holland was developing storyboards on an early version of The Little Mermaid.

However, by September 1941, Sylvia Holland had been laid off, but she returned back to Disney in August 1942 to develop storyboards on Victory Through Air Power.

Sylvia Holland was laid off from Disney in 1946, and briefly worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Sylvia Holland then became a children's illustrator for Whitman Publishing as well worked as a greetings card designer for MacMillan's Readers and Chryston Limited Edition.

On Easter Sunday 1974, Sylvia Holland died from a stroke in Tarzana, California.