The Happy Time, The Happiest Pictures

So.  Even tho I don’t fancy Bobby in the romantic way here since he was just like 15, I find that these are two of my favorite pics of him at this age in The Happy Time.  The precocious expression he wears in the top pic is unparalleled, and the bottom one just really illustrates his profile well.  Any of the rest of you wish there were half as many pics of him as a grown man as there are of him as a kid?

Either way… if you haven’t seen this movie, go watch it too.

New Picture

Hope everyone’s having a good week!  Just wanted to show off a beautiful pic of Bobby I found a few weeks ago to tide us over.

Party Crashers

If you’ve not yet watched The Party Crashers, you must.  Despite it being considered a low-budget film with a bad script, Bobby works wonders with what he’s been given.  He plays a rather serious guy who gets sucked into being a “bad boy” to please his girlfriend and keep her interested in him over his competition.  Oh, and Connie Stevens’ character (Bobby’s onscreen girlfriend) is the very definition of an entitled brat.  If you can make it through the movie without wanting to knock her kneecaps in, you’re a better woman than me, just by the way...

Favorite Moment:  Bobby has lots of great teeth-smiles in this movie, which we don’t get to see as much out of him in pictures and onscreen as he gets older.  Pay special attention to the conversation he and his dad have about the sports car, and again when his girlfriend’s dad is talking to him about the dance competition trophy.  It’s very sweet.

All in all, this movie still makes me feel sad.  I’m sure it’s not in small part due to the knowledge this was Bobby’s last full-length film, and likely made at a time of high stress in his life.  He would have been still newly married with one baby and another on the way, struggling to make money to support his family while battling his addiction.  The character he plays is slightly morose, and I can’t help but see the tiniest reflection of Bobby’s real-life angst in his eyes.  

Pete Loves Mary

I finally had the chance to watch Bobby in “Pete Loves Mary,” an episode from the late 50′s/early 60′s show M Squad.  

I was SUPER excited to find this on youtube, because alot of Bobby’s TV work can be so hard to find.  It looks like he may have filmed this around the time he shot “Ordeal of the S-38″, give or take a couple months.  He would have been a new dad, trying to keep steady work for his family. 
I have this theory that MAYBE Bobby didn’t like taking his wedding band off while filming in his early days of marriage (Beware: entering sheer speculation zone).  I noticed he wore it during the “S-38″ episode, as well as in this one.  For the other character, he could have been married just as likely as he could not have been, but in his role of Steve here, it can certainly be inferred that he isn’t.  All the same, he wears a ring on his left hand – although in “Pete Loves Mary,” it doesn’t seem to be an actual wedding band despite it being on his ring finger.  I wonder if he disliked going without his band so much that they offered him another ring to “place hold” without it looking to audiences like a wedding ring?  I can’t remember whether or not he wore one in Party Crashers, where the character was most certainly not married…

Of course, again, that could totally be just me making something into more than what it is.  

Favorite moment:  Bobby once again treats us to some great facial expressions here, particularly during his first conversation with the cop.  He does a great job of being sarcastic toward the officer, and defensive of his brother, a prison escapee.  

A Clip from the Walt Disney Christmas Show

I should wait until Christmas to post this, but since when do I have that much patience?

I loved this so much.  Anybody else notice those guns Bobby has on him for still being just a kid?  That stood out to me because I didn’t really know if guys “worked out” back then the same way they do now, particularly so young.  Evidently so, or he had just spent quite alot of time involved in sports, etc.  

I also have to say, Kathy Beaumont has the very sweetest face every time I see her ^^ I would love to know if she ever had a crush on Bobby.

Bobby's Contemporaries

I think we’ve all wondered alot what Bobby’s life would have been like had he lived past 31.  Would he have remarried?  Once, twice, maybe more times as many celebrities do?  Would he have opted not to go back to acting at all, and instead choose a different career path?

Next Spring would have been Bobby’s 80th birthday.  To many of us in the younger set, that can seem positively ancient, though there are plenty of octogenarians who maintain active lifestyles and still contribute regularly to life and art!

Out of curiosity, I wanted to see who we know that would have been Bobby’s age to maybe give us a picture of the life he might still be living if he were here.  It was fascinating to think about….

Also born in 1937...

Jack Nicholson
Morgan Freeman
Vanessa Redgrave
Ned Beatty
Warren Beatty
Colin Powell
Merle Haggard
Saddam Hussein (HAD to throw that one in there for effect…. but it’s true!)
Madeleine Albright
Richard Petty
Bill Cosby
Dustin Hoffman
Anthony Hopkins
Jane Fonda

Pictures I'd Love to Know the Story Behind

There are a couple Bobby pics I have that I have never yet been able to trace the source of…. and I’m open for an education, if any of his other fans can provide it!



So I am assuming this is from a movie or TV show – anyone know which one it was?



Okay, so my question here is, when was this?  Notice the Peter Pan costume here is alot different than the one he wore in the other live action model pictures we see.  I’m wondering if this was an earlier version they decided not to go with?  I also think Bobby looks a little younger here than he does in his other Peter Pan pics….

So these are my mystery Bobby images!  Anyone care to shed light?