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Helen Aberson-Mayer (June 16, 1907 – April 3, 1999) [1] [2] was an American children's book author. Aberson-Mayer was best known for co-authoring the story that inspired Walt Disney 's 1941 film Dumbo. [3] In collaboration with her then husband, Harold Pearl, Aberson-Mayer wrote Dumbo the Flying Elephant and sold it to Roll-A-Book, the ...
“Back in the day, in 1999 when I still wrote for the Syracuse Post-Standard, the word “Syracuse’’ jumped out at me as I read an obituary in the New York Times for Helen Aberson Mayer, at 91. The by-lined death notice said Helen wrote the story that inspired the 1941 Walt Disney film, “Dumbo.’’
Apr 10, 1999 · Helen Aberson Mayer, who wrote the children's story that inspired the 1941 Walt Disney cartoon, ''Dumbo,'' died last Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 91.
Oct 25, 2015 · I started working this in April 1999 after I read Helen Aberson Mayer's obituary in The New York Times. Helen, a Syracusan, wrote the original story of Dumbo with her husband, Harold Pearl....
Dumbo is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and illustrated by Helen Durney for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book"). [4] [5]
HELEN ABERSON - the "Mayer" came later - was the otherwise unknown author of Dumbo, the Flying Elephant, first published in 1939 and two years later made into the famous Disney film. Born in...
Mar 25, 2019 · Aberson, who died in 1999, was proud of her story, which was tinged with sadness but demonstrated how perseverance triumphs in the end. Her son believed Dumbo was a metaphor for his mother’s own...
Jan 14, 2010 · When she died on April 3, 1999, at the age of ninety-one, Helen Aberson was living in Manhattan, had been married to a businessman named Richard Mayer since 1944, and was known as Helen Aberson Mayer. The New York Times, reporting on her death, did not mention her marriage to Pearl. The Times identified her in a headline as "Dumbo's creator ...
May 7, 2024 · By Staff. Apr 12, 1999. 0. Helen Aberson Mayer, who wrote the children's story that inspired the 1941 Walt Disney cartoon "Dumbo," died Saturday at her Manhattan home. She was 91.
Jun 9, 1999 · Helen Aberson Mayer, co-author with Harold Perl of "Dumbo, the FlyingElephant," the children's book that inspired the 1941 Walt Disney animatedfeature, DUMBO, died April 3, 1999 in her Manhattan home. She was 92.
