Richard Skipper Celebrates Growing Up in Disneyland with Ron DeFore

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"Growing up in Disneyland" is part biography about Ron's father, Broadway, movie, and TV star, Don DeFore, and his own autobiography. Don DeFore earned a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame and was a household name in the 1950s and 60s. He co-starred in numerous feature films, TV shows, and live theater with many Hollywood legends. He is best known for "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" in which he played the next-door-neighbor, "Thorny," and his co-starring role as "Mr. B" in the 1960s TV series, "Hazel." The book includes much of Don's unpublished autobiography, "Hollywood-DeFore 'n After.""Growing up in Disneyland" is a metaphor for Ron's life growing up in a celebrity family filled with Fantasyland adventures he equates to a Forest Gump type life, from meeting the Beatles, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, and other celebrities as Associate Director of the Steve Allen Show. His nearly 20 careers include a mid-life crisis as the Flying DJ at an L.A. discotheque to political positions within the Reagan Presidential Administration to establishing his own company. "Growing up in Disneyland" is also to be taken literally, as Ron spent much of his youth in Disneyland where his father owned "Don DeFore's Silver Banjo Barbecue" restaurant in Frontierland. Ron and his brother, Dave, have given presentations to various Disneyland interest groups after which many attendees suggested, you should write a book."Growing up in Disneyland" will be enjoyed by any age group from baby-boomers that remember Don DeFore's many beloved acting roles to those that don't but are curious how life was in the good-old-days, especially growing up in a Hollywood celebrity family. Ron has had so many careers and adventures along the way that readers will have much to keep them from putting the book down.Ron DeFore is the second son of movie, television and Broadway star, Don DeFore. Don DeFore co-starred in more than 35 feature films and is perhaps best known for his TV role as "Thorny" in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" and his co-starring role as "Mr. B" in the 1960s TV hit series, "Hazel." His mother was also an entertainer in the late 1930s and early '40s as the lead vocalist with the Henry Busse Orchestra as well as Art Kassel and His Kassels in the Air orchestra. She recorded with both and with the later made "I'm a Little Teapot" famous. Ron has a brother, David, and three sisters, Penny, Dawn, and Autumn. His upbringing in Brentwood, just outside of Hollywood--surrounded by celebrities--made for a life full of amazing experiences including having a father who owned a restaurant in Disneyland, "Don DeFore's Silver Banjo Barbecue" restaurant in Frontierland. Ron's exciting brushes with history continued all the way to his semi-retirement.
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