{"id":4170,"date":"2013-01-16T12:07:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T20:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2016-04-19T03:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:32:34","slug":"were-walt-disneys-last-written-words-really-kurt-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2013\/01\/16\/were-walt-disneys-last-written-words-really-kurt-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"Were Walt Disney’s Last Written Words Really “Kurt Russell”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MOVIE URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: The last thing Walt Disney wrote before dying was “Kurt Russell.”<\/p>\n

As the saying goes, there are only two constants in life, death and taxes. The former is something that society as a whole (and popular culture specifically) has always been fascinated with. Pretty much any hour of the day you can find some programming on television that is either about someone being murdered, someone escaping death or life after<\/b> death. So it is only natural, then, that the last words of famous people are greatly scrutinized. After all, we have always given greater meaning to the ends of novels and films, so why not something even more important, the end of someone’s actual life<\/b>? Heck, Orson Welles’ classic film Citizen Kane<\/i> revolves around the last words of its title subject. Like that film’s mysterious “Rosebud,” the more attention that you give a subject the more likely that false or misleading stories will pop up about the topic. Like whether W.C. Fields’ tombstone really reads, “Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia” (I’ve addressed that one before here<\/a>). Or today’s legend – was the last thing Walt Disney wrote before he died really “Kurt Russell”? <\/p>\n

Let’s find out!
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\nThe origin of this particular legend comes from a pretty compelling source, Kurt Russell himself. As you may or may not know, Russell was a child actor whose career began in the late 1950s (in 1963, he even starred in a short-lived TV adventure series called The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters<\/em>). In 1966, he did a Disney film called Follow Me, Boys!<\/i> alongside Fred MacMurray about a Boy Scout troop. <\/p>\n

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