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Review of Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

New Yorker magazine, 12/11/2006
by Anthony Lane

A mention of Hardie is in a Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, gently poking fun at the names of many of the Disney animators: "One of the delights of Neil Gabler’s book is the roster of proper names, many as rubberized as cartoons: Earl Scrogin, Friz Freleng, Grim Natwick, Pinto Colvig, Hardie Gramatky, Dr. Rufus von KleinSmid, and the Dr. Seuss-worthy Gus Van Schmus. Ubbe Iwwerks changed his name to Ub Iwerks, which didn’t exactly help."