Talk:Carman Maxwell

E or A

The article is titles with the 'E' spelling, and there is currently no source that shows the 'A' spelling. I could not care less myself, but if 'A' is correct than just provide a source that shows that. - 152.91.9.144 04:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Well for one, his death record in the California State records. This point is corroborated by the 1910 and 1920 census records, the 1927, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1940 Los Angeles Polk City Directories and/or Los Angeles Phone Directories. Also "Walt in Wonderland, The Silent Films of Walt Disney" by Russell Merritt and J. B. Kaufman (1993) pub. Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto -- Distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press; pages 40 and 163 (elsewhere he is simply listed as "Max" Maxwell)

Don't believe everything you read in the IMDB....

Thanks for the source, I've added a proposed move tag and will fill out the rest. I know IMDB isn't reliable, I made a head tip to that in my first edit summary. It's just that in the absence of anything else, you know. *shrug*
152.91.9.144 04:54, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy to contribute (and sad that things like this get lost in the haze of "history") To be honest I was shocked that my correction was being corrected so quickly. (it seemed to be such a quiet little corner of Wikipedia when I stepped in...) - JLC

Article moved. Cheers. -GTBacchus^(talk) 19:59, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

More grist for the mill: I was just reading Neal Gabler's "Walt Disney, A Triumph of the American Imagination" and on page 65 he again is listed as Carmen Maxwell! As of yesterday (19 Dec 2006,) Michael Barrier, had pointed out that this is indeed in error;

    "Carman Maxwell spelled his name that way, not with an "e." He hated the name, actually, 
     identifying himself as C. G. Maxwell, or, on a business card for the Arabian Nights 
     cartoons, "C. Griffin Maxwell." Everyone called him "Max." 

Barrier's own biography of Walt Disney will be released in 2007.