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Growing Up in Disneyland
Ron DeFore, author
Part bio of Ron's father, movie, and TV star, Don DeFore, and his own autobio. Don DeFore earned a star on Hollywood Boulevard and co-starred with many Hollywood legends. Best known for "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" as next-door-neighbor, "Thorny," and role as "Mr. B" in the 1960s TV series, "Hazel." The title is a metaphor for Ron's life in a celebrity family filled with adventures but is also literal as Ron spent much of his youth in Disneyland as father owned "Don DeFore's Silver Banjo Barbecue" restaurant in Frontierland. Ron's 20 careers include The Flying DJ at an L.A. discotheque to a Reagan Presidential appointee to owning his own company in Washington, D.C.