Pocahontas

…with lyricist Stephen Schwartz on Pocahontas (1995) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Pocahontas won Menken his seventh and eighth Oscars, in the categories of best musical or comedy score and best original song (“Colors of the Wind”). Menken later worked with David Zippel on the score for Hercules…

…Walt Disney Company’s animated feature Pocahontas (1995)—as on her relationship with Rolfe. In the run-up to the American Civil War, according to cultural historian Robert P. Tilton, abolitionists claimed Pocahontas as a symbol of the possibility of racial harmony, while Southerners pointed to her and Rolfe as progenitors of Southern…

…in the Disney animated feature Pocahontas (1995). She played Commander Chennault on the short-lived sci-fi television series Space Rangers (1993–94) and had a recurring role as a judge on The Practice (1997–2002).