Song of the South
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Song of the South is a 1946 American musical film directed by Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, produced by Walt Disney, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based on the Uncle Remus stories as a
Theatrical release poster
Clockwise from left: Ginny (Luana Patten), Uncle Remus (James Baskett), Johnny (Bobby Driscoll), and Toby (Glenn Leedy) as seen in a publicity photo
In a screenshot from the film, Br'er Rabbit takes Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear to his "laughing place"
The film premiered at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta in 1946.
Bobby Driscoll
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Robert Cletus Driscoll was an American actor who performed on film and television. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Studios' best-known live-action pictures of that period: Song of the South, So
Song of the South
…era, a period of American history after the end of the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The story follows seven-year-old Johnny (Bobby Driscoll) who is visiting his grandmother's (Lucile Watson) plantation for an extended stay. Johnny befriends Uncle Remus (Baskett), an elderly worker on the…
Driscoll in 1948
Driscoll in The Fighting Sullivans (1944), his debut film
Driscoll in February 1946
Driscoll as Peter Pan in The Walt Disney Christmas Show