Editing Leopold Stokowski (section)

==In popular culture==
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* In the 1936 musical film ''[[Born to Dance]]'', during the “[[You'd Be So Easy to Love|You'd be so Easy to Love]]”  sequence in [[Central Park]], [[James Stewart|Jimmy Stewart]] “conducts” [[Eleanor Powell]]'s dance with a balloon-seller's stick. A policeman ([[Reginald Gardiner]]) approaches, snaps Stewart's stick, shakes out his hair, retrieves a balloon stick for himself, and launches into 3 minutes of intense, speechless parody of Stokowski conducting orchestral variations on the theme—and faints.
* The 1940 [[Walt Disney]] animated film ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'' stars Stokowski leading the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] and performing, among other pieces of music, his transcription of [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]'s [[Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565|''Toccata and Fugue in D minor'', BWV 565]], as the opening piece of the program.
* A statue of the maestro shaking hands with [[Mickey Mouse]], a recreation of that memorable moment in ''Fantasia'', stands in the lobby of [[Disney's Contemporary Resort]] in [[Walt Disney World]] in [[Orlando, Florida]].
* The 1949  ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' episode "[[Long-Haired Hare]]" has a satirical homage to Stokowski: [[Bugs Bunny]] impersonates him at the Hollywood Bowl. The cartoon pokes gentle fun at Stokowski's habit of conducting without a baton by having Bugs break the baton handed to him.
* [[Arturo Toscanini]], who hated Stokowski, wrote him a letter in which he called him "fit for the asylum" ("Believe me, you are ready for mad-house or for jail… Hurry up!!!").<ref>Letter of october 19, 1941 in Harvey Sachs, ''The letters of Arturo Toscanini'', The University of Chicago Press, 2002, 2006, {{p.|382}}. {{ISBN|978-0-226-73340-1}}.</ref> Toscanini had just heard Stokowski perform [[César Franck]]'s Symphony. The letter was never sent, probably at the initiative of one of his sons.