the death of a lost boy.

I'm Rebecca Leib.

I'm Jason Horton.

And this is Ghost Town. Bobby Driscoll was a child star and like a lot of child stars those stars fade.

Oh, yeah. They don't grow into maturity and become super dwarf stars and burn brightly for years and years to come?

Unfortunately, this one burnt out pretty quickly and pretty tragically.

And Bobby Driscoll was a Disney star. So I think at least for us and for this podcast kind of lens like and a

certain strange history you you know, anytime you mix in Disney, which is classic and iconic, but also

Disney has its own thing.

Yeah.

Disney, it's another, I think for me, like trying to pinpoint exactly what that is, that extra thing,

it's like Disney has such a level of knowledge and familiarity in all of our lives.

It's like another thing that you're like, oh, this familiar thing turned on its head

or like the dark side of this thing that we think is so wholesome and American.

Yeah, and you know, there's sometimes there's a price to pay.

No way.

Sometimes there is though.

Yeah, no, it's not just you know you do this and only good things will happen and nothing bad could possibly happen when you're thrust into stardom.

I mean but in the 1940s is a great time to be a child star.

Oh yeah, you're not taking advantage of it at all. There's no weird bad regulations you can work as long as you want whenever you

want. So strap in for this one we're to take a little trip starting in the 1940s but he appeared

Bobby Driscoll appeared in Disney films including Song of the South which which is a little bit of controversy, very controversial,

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