I didn’t know Margaret Winkler. Now I only want to know more about Margaret Winkler.
Is this the most impactful female entertainment media executive of all-time?
What? You don’t know who Margaret Winkler is? Neither did I and it seems like a massive oversight. She was the movie executive in the 1920s who gave Walt Disney his first paid work, effectively forming The Walt Disney Company.
According to Disney, "In the summer of 1923, [Walt] used some of his last $40 to buy a first-class train ticket to Los Angeles, w…
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