Felix Salten a Forest Family" (1939). His stories "Perri" and "The Hound of Florence" inspired the Disney films "Perri" (1957) and "The Shaggy Dog" (1959), respectively. Salten is now considered to be the anonymous author of a witty, full of social criticism, celebrated erotic novel, "Josephine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself" (1906). Felix Salten Felix Salten (; 6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austrian author and critic in Vienna. His most famous work is "Bambi, a Life in the Woods" (1923). Salten was born Siegmund Salzmann in Pest, Austria-Hungary, the grandson of
Walt Disney Angeles because his brother Roy was convalescing from tuberculosis there. Disney's efforts to sell "Alice's Wonderland" were in vain until he heard from New York film distributor Margaret J. Winkler. She was losing the rights to both the "Out of the Inkwell" and "Felix the Cat" cartoons, and needed a new series. In October, they signed a contract for six "Alice" comedies, with an option for two further series of six episodes each. Disney and his brother Roy formed the Disney Brothers Studiowhich later became The Walt Disney Companyto produce the films; they persuaded Davis and her family to relocate