So I’m watching this film noir on Turner Classic Movies. It’s called ‘The Window’, it’s really suspenseful and it features this child actor named Bobby Driscoll, who was on loan from Disney. Turns out he was a huge child star at Disney and was the voice of the animated Peter Pan. He was big. By age 31, he was dead and buried in a NYC potter’s field, largely due to a heroin addiction. A sad story you can read about here.
Wonderful Topanga Canyon troubadour Tom Russell offers the elegaic ‘Farewell Never Never Land’ to keep Driscoll’s memory alive:
