[perfectfeelings]

“Find yourself first, like yourself first, love yourself first, and friendship, companionship, and love will naturally find you.”

— Mandy Hale

[thepersonalquotes]

[cerebralsonnets]

It’s Bobby’s birthday today, and my gift to the community that loves him is this little gem. Watermark free, payment free. I really wish people would stop exploiting him for a quick cash grab.

[thepersonalquotes]

[fantasylandmermaid]

Bobby Driscoll in If You Knew Susie (1948)

[fantasylandmermaid]

Bobby Driscoll doing the Bobby Driscoll Face™

[fantasylandmermaid]

Jackie Cooper is the youngest person to have ever been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards; For his role in Skippy (1931), at just 9 years old. Mainly due to this crying scene.

Sadly, Cooper was not acting. Director Norman Taurog, Jackie’s uncle, was not satisfied with his performance. When screaming at and threatening his nephew didn’t work, he had a crew member bring Jackie’s dog backstage and fire off a prop gun. Making the boy think his dog had just been shot. He then made Jackie perform the scene, only revealing after his dog was unharmed.

Jackie continued to cry for hours and began throwing up. Only stopping when a doctor was called in to pump him full of sleep medication.

Jackie Cooper later stated this event traumatized him and permanently damaged his ability to trust.

[fantasylandmermaid]

Bobby Driscoll in Melody Time (1948)

[cerebralsonnets]

The best Alice Cooper album.

[cerebralsonnets]

Spared the little guy from the mower. Just call me the savior of toads.

[cerebralsonnets]

I have a playlist for my mother. They either remind me of her, or are songs she loved. This was one I introduced her to.

[cerebralsonnets]

[cerebralsonnets]

Didn’t need my heart, anyway.

[cerebralsonnets]

[rememberingbobby]

“After working on my memoir project, I took a walk in the rain. Today is Bobby Driscoll’s birthday, who was a friend of my parents. I don’t have a strong memory of him, due that I was a little child when he was around the household. But his presence was felt strongly. What I hear about him is mostly from my mom, who was very fond of him. It’s funny that he was the source material for Disney’s “Peter Pan” and in a sense growing up was a huge pain for him. Not as a man, but the way the entertainment industry treats its children, who work in the film world. They always want to freeze time, yet a human can’t remain what he was, he or she can only be “is.””

— Tosh Berman

[rememberingbobby]

Look look!  And here I thought there was no other Bobby picture out there we’d never seen before!  This was apparently taken during the “date” he and Natalie Wood went on when he was 17, but didn’t make it into the spread.  They’re picking out records together.  Who of us would’ve loved to have been in Natalie Wood’s place on that date when we were that age?  (Of course, many of you still are…)

It’s a nice, crisp photo of our sweet Bobby, and I’m so grateful to have run across it yesterday.

[cerebralsonnets]

Two favorites. 🤍 May their souls rest in peace.

[robertocustodioart]

Natalie Wood by William Claxton 1961