ABSTRACT
Myron Henry “Grim” Natwick (1890–1990) was born in Wisconsin and studied drawing at the Ecole d'Beaux Arts in Paris. He became an animator at the Hearst Studio in 1918. He designed and animated the character Betty Boop for Max Fleischer in 1931. Later he went to Walt Disney to lead the team animating Snow White in Walt Disney's first feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He influenced a number of artists, who became the Nine Old Men, like Marc Davis, Ward Kimball, and Frank Thomas. He left Disney to return to Fleischer to animate Princess Glory in Gulliver's Travels, then later at UPA he created Nelly Bly for the John Hubley masterpiece Rooty Toot Toot (1951).
