She started out at the all-female Ink & Paint animation department at the studio and spent a decade on 'Gunsmoke.'
Bakke died March 10 at her home in Oxnard, California, her niece, Lucile Bosche, toldBorn in Brooklyn in 1927, Bakke and her family moved to the Toluca Lake section of Los Angeles in 1941.
Soon after graduation from North Hollywood High School in 1945, the Walt Disney Co. hired her as a secretary in its Ink & Paint department, the all-female finishing school that completed hand-drawn animation projects at the studio.The Magical World of Disney"I was assigned to take notes in shorthand of all the conferences on subjects like weightlessness, centrifugal force, rocket stages and orbital trajectories, all of which were Greek to me," Bakkein 2006.
She became the first person the studio trained to be a live-action script supervisor and kept track of things on
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