"The Happy Time" stuff

So this was slightly awesome!  I ran across a picture of this old poster for The Happy Time that was actually in color!  Who guessed that suit was blue?  Or, well, probably gray.

There's just really not enough of Bobby in color to tell us much about his coloring and for us to get the full effect of how his hair matched his eyes, and other things, particularly as an adult.  We can tell from collecting the pictures and screenshots we do have that his hair was about medium brown, and his eyes were probably hazel-ish.  As far as whether or not he was fair-skinned, rosy-cheeked, slightly tan, etc., I'm not sure we will ever know!  Though if anyone reads this who has either seen a highly detailed colored portrait, or better yet, saw Bobby in person at one point, please feel free to speak into the situation.  I'd love to know.

And by the way... I say the coat must have been blue because of this colored poster, but the color may have been added later and just done in whatever hues the illustrator wanted to use at the time.  I do know that one such poster I saw of The Window renders Bobby's eyes blue, which I do happen to know from word of mouth that they weren't.

Speaking of The Happy Time, I found this little blurb in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Oct. 19, 1952:

Young Bobby Driscoll, who plays the role of Bibi in "The Happy Time," spent much of his time manipulating a player piano. It was called for by the script, but Bobby became so entranced with the foot-pedalled contraption that between scenes he continued giving the mechanical piano a work-out.


Bet we can just guess how annoying that must have been for everybody else :)  But it has to make you smile.  What a kid thing to do!