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As many times as you've watched Alice fall down the rabbit hole, drink tea with the Mad Hatter, and evade the psychotic Queen of Hearts, there's a lot you may not know about the film's behind-the-scenes drama. Here's what happened on the other side of the looking glass.
1.Walt Disney (above) had dreamed of making an "Alice" feature for nearly 30 years. Back in 1923, when he was still making silent shorts for the Laugh-O-Gram studio in Kansas City, he made one called "Alice's Wonderland" that mixed a live-action Alice with animated creatures. This short became his calling card when he went to Hollywood.

2. In the 1930s, when he had become a successful animator, Disney envisioned a live-action "Alice" feature that would star Ginger Rogers.
3. Disney hired visionary "Brave New World" novelist Aldous Huxley to write an "Alice" screenplay, but he found Huxley's draft too literal. He soon decided the only way to adapt Lewis Carroll's books was to make the feature entirely animated and not be too faithful to the nearly plotless tales. Inspired by concept art of Wonderland settings that he'd solicited from Mary Blair, Disney decided to take the project in a more whimsical, comic direction.

4. Disney commissioned 30 songs for the film, based on the verses Carroll had sprinkled throughout the books. Fourteen of them made the cut, making "Alice" the most song-filled of all Disney animated musicals.
5. Sammy Fain's title song became a jazz hit for Peter Pan."

6. Popular comic actor The Jungle Book."

Winnie the Pooh in several shorts.

8. In the film's opening credits, Lewis Carroll's name is misspelled "Carrol."
9. "Alice" cost $3 million to make, during a production that spanned five years, three directors, 13 credited writers, 750 artists, 800 gallons of paint,1,000 watercolor hues, and 350,000 drawings and paintings. It earned back just $2.4 million.

10. Animator Ward Kimball blamed the movie's failure on all the competing creators -- "too many cooks," as he put it. Walt complained that the movie's heroine lacked "warmth."

11. "Alice" earned just one Academy Award nomination, for the instrumental score by Oliver Wallace.
12. In the 1960s, "Alice" (like "Fantasia") earned a reappraisal from college-aged audiences who appreciated its trippy nature, especially if they watched it under the influence. Walt didn't want to market and re-release his experimental, colorful early features as "head" films, but after his death in 1966, that's what happened. d with psychedelic poster art, "Alice" was re-released in 1974 and 1981, with much greater success. In contemporary dollars, "Alice" earned $322 million over its lifetime.

13. Besides the 2010 Tim Burton film and its House of Mouse."