Elizabeth Taylor visits Michael Jackson on the set of Captain EO 1986.
Bobby Driscoll. The face and voice of Disney’s Peter Pan.
February 27, 1992, Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 60th birthday at Disneyland.
“for the child in me… it’s going to be the best party of my life.”
Elizabeth with then husband Larry Fortensky celebrating her 60th birthday at Disneyland!
So beautiful!
I remember doing that *push yourself up on the rock* in the bath tub LMFAO…
*cough* that was only last week.
I went to Toys ‘R’ Us the other day, and I have to say what a disapointment the Disney Barbie dolls are nowadays. They look nothing like the characters in the movies, they just have similar clothes and hair…
It’s a cheap production I think. I think they probably put the quality into the dolls when they were advertising the movie at the time of it’s release… like Pocohontas or Ariel. My Barbies from the 90s look like the movie!
When the weather get’s better I’m gonna look in my shed for them. :O)
This is Bobby Driscoll. You may think you don’t know him, but you do. He was a childstar, and an important part of Disney productions. Driscoll was the first actor Walt Disney put under contract. Bobby was Peter Pan in Walt Disney’s film Peter Pan. He provided the voice, and as you can see the face of Peter Pan was inspired by Bobby’s looks too.
Bobby won a special Academy Award in March 1950 as the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949, for his roles in So Dear to My Heart and The Window.
A severe case of acne accompanying the onset of puberty and explaining why it was necessary for Driscoll to use heavy makeup for his performances on dozens of TV shows, was officially provided as the final reason for the termination of his connection with the Disney Studios.
“I have found that memories are not very useful. I was carried on a silver platter … and then dumped into the garbage.”
At his request, Driscoll’s parents returned him the next year to Hollywood Professional School, where in May 1955 he graduated.
In 1965 he became part of Andy Warhol’s Greenwich Village art community known as The Factory. Some of his works were considered outstanding, and a few of his surviving collages and cardboard mailers were temporarily exhibited in Los Angeles at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. In 1965, early in his tenure at The Factory, Driscoll gave his last known film performance, in experimental filmmaker Piero Heliczer’s Underground movie Dirt.
He left The Factory in late 1967 or very early 1968 and, penniless, disappeared into Manhattan’s underground. On March 30, 1968, about three weeks after his 31st birthday, two boys playing in a deserted East Village tenement at 371 East 10th St found his dead body. The medical examination determined that he had died from heart failure caused by an advanced hardening of the arteries due to longtime drug abuse. There was no ID on the body, and photos taken of it and shown around the neighborhood yielded no positive identification. When Driscoll’s body went unclaimed, he was buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave in New York City’s Potter’s Field on Hart Island.
Late in 1969, about nineteen months after his death, Driscoll’s mother sought the help of officials at the Disney studios to contact him for a hoped-for reunion with his father, who was near death. This resulted in a fingerprint match at NYPD, which located his burial on Hart Island. Although his name appears on his father’s gravestone at Eternal Hills Memorial Park in Oceanside, it is merely a cenotaph since his remains still rest on Hart Island. Driscoll’s death was not reported until the re-release of his first Disney film, Song of the South, in 1971/72, when reporters researched the whereabouts of the film’s major cast members, and his mother revealed what had happened.
