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Tommy Kirk, Young Disney Actor in ‘Old Yeller’ and ‘The Shaggy Dog,’ Dies at 79
The Hollywood Reporter ^
| Sept. 29, 2021
| Mike Barnes
Posted on 09/29/2021 8:10:49 PM PDT by truthkeeper
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He was a wonderful child actor back when movies were great. Unforgettable in "Old Yeller." Still makes me cry.
To: truthkeeper
Who saw “Old Yeller?” Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end? Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot? (hands are reluctantly raised) I cried my eyes out. So we’re all dog faces, we’re all very, very different, but there is one thing that we all have in common: we were all stupid enough to enlist in the Army. We’re mutants, there’s something wrong with us, there’s something very, very wrong with us. Something seriously wrong with us. We’re soldiers, American soldiers! We’ve been kicking ass for 200 years, we’re 10 and 1. Now we don’t have to worry about whether or not we practiced. We don’t have to worry about whether Captain Diller wants to have us hung. All we have to do-oo is to be the great American fighting soldier that is inside each one of us. Now do what I do, and say what I say. And make me proud.
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:14:23 PM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(We're a nation of surprisingly talented people run by the least talented of us.)
To: truthkeeper
RIP Tommy Kirk.
You gave me many hours of entertaiment during the 1950s and 1960s.
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:15:46 PM PDT
by
Tupelo
To: Old Yeller
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:17:35 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: truthkeeper
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:18:56 PM PDT
by
laplata
To: truthkeeper
RIP, Tommy Kirk
Hell yeah, I cried my eyes out at the end of Old Yeller when I first saw it. And teared up mightily when I watched a few years ago. Powerfully acted from when Disney knew how to make movies.
Mr. Kirk was great.
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:26:27 PM PDT
by
Adder
("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
To: truthkeeper
My kids still like to watch Old Yeller.
To: Old Yeller
Well said. I kicked the sh*t out of covid this last week, Romeo Company.
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:26:52 PM PDT
by
OftheOhio
(never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
To: truthkeeper
Tommy Kirk, whose career as a young leading man in Disney films like Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog and Son of Flubber came to an end, he said, after the studio discovered he was gay, has died. He was 79.That was the old Disney. If they had discovered he was a homo in the current environment, his career would have taken off.
To: Disambiguator
Walt Disney personally fired him, but they kept it quiet so he could keep working.
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:29:15 PM PDT
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kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: truthkeeper
Too bad they canned him for being gay when so may other great actors were gay, too.
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:29:23 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
To: crusty old prospector
You’ll love Togo on Disney, spoiler alert: Togo doesn’t die (even though one scene makes you think he will). Well, not until he was very old in dog years.
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:32:00 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
To: Disambiguator
There were other gay/bi during that period who didn’t get fired, Rock Hudson, Anthony Perkins, Tab Hunter, Vincent Price, Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Greta Garbo, Cesar Romero, Montgomery Clift, Tyrone Power, Raymond Burr (many were secretly or not so secretly gay or bi).
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:43:28 PM PDT
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Blood of Tyrants
(When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Vincent Price and Cesar Romero? I don’t believe it!
To: truthkeeper
I saw
Old Yeller in the theater in the spring of 1958. The matinee was sold out, so we had to wait for the afternoon showing. It was worth it--probably the most exciting movie I had seen up to that time--at least until I saw
Around the World in 80 Days a few weeks later.
I haven't seen the movie since, but nearly half a century later, I read the book, by Fred Gipson (New York: Harper, 1956). However, I didn't like it as much as his first book, Hound Dog Man (New York: Harper, 1947), which is out of print and hard to find--and will remain so, because the protagonist is a black dog whose name starts with N.
To: Blood of Tyrants
How much of that list is true? One of the tactics of the gay mafia is to portray everybody famous as gay.
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:57:12 PM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: Blood of Tyrants
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posted on
09/29/2021 8:58:21 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
(Trump is my President!)
To: Old Yeller
Did you do that from memory? Impressive.
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posted on
09/29/2021 9:01:12 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
To: DiogenesLamp
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posted on
09/29/2021 9:08:54 PM PDT
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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