Son of Frankenstein, Tower of London, some others. I did a whole bunch of those films as a kid. We’re in Los Angeles and I did seven movies, some of them as a costar on the marquee, if you can believe that, huh.Ī little runt kids with the Mickey Mouse curly hair. ![]() About two weeks later, cut this real short. All the way out from Los Angeles because his mother was ill. This is Memphis, Tennessee.Īnd he was a bona fide genuine talent scout in those days. In the audience was a wonderful man who was there because his mother was ill. And I sang to a song I think called A-tisket A-taskit, with a paper bag as my hat and a stick from a tree as my cane. And I won the darn thing which was a miracle. The top floor was 14 so I’m four years old. People went to talent contests in those days in local theaters because they were dirt poor and there was no entertainment, you know.Īnd they didn’t have a floor on who could apply for this, okay. Then they decided to put me in a talent contest. And it was the depression, no phones, no radios, no money, okay? People were there laughing about this wonderful man dancing on the corner for nickels and pennies. We literally knew he was the cousin of a famous dancer named Peg Leg Bates, true story.Īnd I’m standing there at 3 ½, four years old you know I’m standing behind a crowd. And my mother would take me down to the corner about two blocks away where a wonderful man danced on the corner on Saturday, okay, with a Victrola that you crank up and put on the sidewalk, okay. And I mean, certified dirt poor in the South. I say this because his answers were lengthy but well worth it.ĭonnie Dunagan- “ We were dirt poor. Donnie is a storyteller, I loved listening to him talk about his life. Let’s jump right in with how Donnie Dunagan became a child actor. Peter Behn the voice of Young Thumper and Donnie Dunagan voice of Young Bambi ![]() We got to sit down with Donald “Donnie” Dunagan the voice of Young Bambi and Peter Behn the voice of Young Thumper to talk about their time of this lovable film.Įnter to win a copy of Bambi Signature Collection at the bottom of this post. Ultimately, Bambi wasn’t released until August of 1942 as the 5th animated movie from Walt Disney Productions. This was also during World War II and during that time some of the animators went off to fight in the war. Being able to interview a cast member from a film that started production in 1937 when Walt Disney purchased the film rights to Felix Salten’s novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods. It was originally slated to be the second Disney animation after Snow White but the animators discovered that the film was going to be challenging because they needed to animate a deer to talk so the production was put on hold.
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