The Screen Director's Playhouse - Day Is Done

So during this time of waiting for updates from bobbydriscoll.net, a good resource for Bobby fans is the Bobby Driscoll Remembered Facebook page.  It’s probably the closest thing there is to an “active fanbase,” even though it still doesn’t buzz.  But then, we can’t really expect anything to buzz in regards to Bobby anymore, bless his heart.  The years are going by, and his stardom is becoming more and more obscure…

Anyway, a man on there called William Gruendler managed to capture some pictures of Bobby from a TCM showing of his Screen Director’s Playhouse episode, and added some effects to them.  Here are my favorites:





The show is evidently about the Korean War, and as I was looking through these pictures, I got to wondering what Bobby’s position might have been on the military.  He was of age to go off and fight right in between the Korean and Vietnam Wars.  I wonder if this episode packed an emotional punch for him and caused him to think back on it in later years when his name was removed from the draft board because of his legal issues (I would quote the magazine I saw this in, but I only saw the isolated article and, upon inquiry, never found out what the name of the actual publication was).  Was he relieved?  Did he feel that something he would’ve taken great pride in – being able to be called upon to go to war for his country – was taken from him?  It would be so nice to know…

Bobby was strung out, we can safely assume, during the early and mid-60′s when Vietnam came around and antiwar protests were all the rage.  Did he have an opinion about it, or was he too lost in his downward spiral to know or care?

Just some ponderings.