Making a costume for dancer Helene Stanley to wear in live-action reference material for Aurora in “Sleeping Beauty” was Alice’s first task for The Walt Disney Company and her first collaboration with her future husband, Marc Davis. Marc and she were wed in June 1956.
She was employed by Walt Disney as a costume designer for the 1960 movie “Toby Tyler,” and she later created costumes for a number of Disney TV shows and amusement park rides.
In 2004, Alice Davis was recognised as a Disney Legend. D23 gives the following description of her:
At Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI), Alice Estes Davis was the original “designing woman.” Married to Disney Legend Marc Davis, she enjoyed a fashionable Disney career of her own, designing and dressing animated figures for such beloved Disneyland attractions as “it’s a small world” and Pirates of the Caribbean. As Alice recalled with a gleam in her eye, “I went from sweet little children to dirty old men over night.”
