Marc Davis was the husband of Alice Estes Davis, an American costume designer best known for her work with Walt Disney, who employed her to develop costumes for films, television, and theme parks.
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A professor at the Chouinard Art Institute, Davis first met Alice Estes when she was as a student there in 1947.
The developed a strong relationship and after her graduation, they married in June 1956.
In the mid-1950s, she received a call from Marc Davis, who at the time, needed a costume for dancer Helene Stanley to wear as she performed live-action reference footage for the animation of Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty.
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- Marc wanted to see how the skirt flowed and bunched as Stanley moved about in order to draft accurate animation.
- During this project, she and Marc Davis grew closer and eventually tied the knot in June 1956.
They stayed remained 44 years until his passing in 2000.
Davis was a well-known American artist and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
He was one of Disney’s Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films, and was revered for his knowledge and understanding of visual aesthetics.
After his work on One Hundred and One Dalmatians he moved to Walt Disney Imagineering to work on rides for Disneyland and Walt Disney World before retiring in 1978.
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