#when i grow up
This, yes. Although I know my husband would say he’d want to be a frog with sticky toe pads instead.
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Sherry Jackson, Martha Scott, and Bobby Driscoll in an original lobby card for When I Grow Up (1951). This is Sherry’s second honorable mention, after Come Next Spring. Her entry among my best 1,001 movies is Trouble Along the Way, as widowed John Wayne’s daughter.
Bobby Driscoll as Josh and Poodles Hanneford as Bob the Clown in a publicity still for When I Grow Up (1951). Poodles was born in Yorkshire, England, and had 32 acting credits, from a 1923 short to Billy Rose’s Jumbo (1963, as a circus clown). He had a few bits here and there when he was not a clown.
original lobby card for When I Grow Up (1951), directed by Michael Kanin. It was his only director credit. Mike was born in Rochester, New York, and had 24 writer credits, from 1939 to 1969. His other notable writing credits include his Oscar winning original screenplay Woman of the Year (with Tracy and Hepburn, 1942), his Oscar nominated Teachers Pet (with Doris Day and Clark Gable), and How to Commit Marriage (with Bob Hope).
When I Grow Up premiered Apr 20, 1951. It is an honorable mention to my best 1,001 movies.
Bobby Driscoll as Josh in When I Grow Up (1951). Bob was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and had 53 acting credits from an unbilled 1943 bit to a 1965 Andy Warhol short, Dirt, as a nun in a bathtub.
After ten minor or bit parts, Bob was cast in Walt Disney’s first three live action features, Song of the South (1946), So Dear To My Heart (1949), and Treasure Island (1950). He was also the voice of Disney’s animated Peter Pan (1953). His entry among my best 1,001 movies is The Window (1949) and his other honorable mention is The Happy Time (1952). After The Happy Time, he was mostly limited to tv guest shots until 1957. He also had an uncredited bit in Lilies of the Field (1962) as a Mexican.
Not able to sustain an acting career despite his talent and determination, he had troubles with the law and with drugs, eventually being convicted, incarcerated, and labeled a drug addict. In 1962 he was successfully rehabbed, but he could not land any acting gigs in Hollywood or New York, effectively vanishing in 1965 after his brief encounter with Andy Warhol, until he was discovered dead at the age of 31 on Mar 30, 1968 by two children in an abandoned New York East Village slum.
