Carole MacGillvray Rappeport[1] was an employee of the General Mills Toy Group.
As early as 1978, she was associate vice-president of Hasbro's toy marketing unit;[2] in the early 1980s, she served as vice-president of U.S. marketing at General Mills' CPG (Consumer Products Group) division.
[5][6] In the mid-1990s, she ran a toy consulting company in Santa Barbara, California.
[3] MacGillvray was a boss to fellow General Mills/Kenner staffer Paul Pressler.
[7] Before its completion, MacGillvray's search for a distributor led to rejections from major U.S. studios; The Samuel Goldwyn Company, an independent outfit, eventually acquired the film for U.S.