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- Myron Waldman was born on April 23, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and art director, known for The Heart That Changed Color (1975), The Adventures of a Man in Search of a Heart: A Joleron Production Starring the Tin Woodman from the Land of Oz (1974) and Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941). He was married to Rosalie Waldman. He died on February 4, 2006 in Bethpage, New York, USA.
- SpouseRosalie Waldman(May 30, 1948 - February 4, 2006) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- A graduate of New York's Pratt Institute, he was hired in 1930 as an inker at Max Fleischer Studios. Four years later, Waldman was head animator and was drawing many of the studio's classic characters as well as the original Superman cartoon series.
- Academy Award nomination in 1939 for his creation of Hunky and Spunky, a cartoon about a donkey and her son.
- When Paramount took over Fleischer's operations in the 1940s, Waldman helped develop musical cartoons in which audiences were encouraged to sing along by following the bouncing ball that led them through the lyrics of melodies sung by such artists as Cab Calloway and Rudy Vallee.
- Waldman worked on animation for commercials, including the chubby-faced Campbell's Soup kids. He also created his own syndicated comic strip, "Happy the Humbug," and published one of the earliest all-illustration novels.
- Cartoon Animator for Betty Boop, Superman, an animator who helped draw Betty Boop, Casper, Popeye and Raggedy Ann and Andy, and originated Boop's sidekick, a dog named Pudgy.
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