"Song of the South" (1947)...

Movie poster for "Song Of The South" with Bobby Driscoll when he was Disney`s number one child star, of the late 40`s era...This film is rarely shown today for the same reason you never see any "Amos and Andy" television reruns of the early 50`s and the reason being that blacks find it offensive and sort of stereo types blacks..But I do not agree with that as these films are a work of art and should be viewed by all...However Bobby Driscoll`s life was a tragic one..After he was tossed aside by Disney in the early 1950`s, he found it difficult to find work so he turned to drugs...He dropped out of sight in the 1960`s and then he was found dead, and identified as a John Doe, in New York City, in an abandoned apartment building, of a drug overdose, in 1968, at the age of 31...No one knew it was Bobby Driscoll at the time until his mother demanded that an autopsy be performed and his fingerprints then identified him...Driscoll is still buried in New York City in a pauper`s grave...

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