When I Grow Up (1951)
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When I Grow Up is an uncharacteristically modest film from producer Sam Spiegel (during his "S. P. Eagle" years). Bobby Driscoll plays a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, Bobby chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather (Charley Grapewin). Leafing through the yellowed pages, Bobby discovers that grandpa went through many of the same childhood travails that Bobby is enduring today--and look how well gramps turned out! Armed with a renewed understanding of (and appreciation for) his elders, Bobby decides to stick around for a while and see how things develop. Sadly, such a pat happy ending was not the real-life lot of Bobby Driscoll, who died an alcoholic pauper seventeen years after When I Grow Up was filmed. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Bobby Driscoll - Denny Reed
- Robert Preston - Father Reed [1890 Sequence]
- Sherry Jackson - Ruthie Reed [1890 Sequence]
- Poodles Hanneford - Bobo [1890 Sequence]
- Paul Guilfoyle - Doc [1890 Sequence]
- Griff Barnett - Dr. Bailey [1890 Sequence]
- Henry Morgan - Father Reed
- Robin Camp - Bully [Modern Sequence]
- Don Gordon - Harmonica Boy [Modern Sequence]
- Bobby Driscoll - Josh Reed
- Martha Scott - Mother Reed [1890 Sequence]
- John McGovern - Duckface Kelly [1890 Sequence]
- Ralph Dumke - Carp [1890 Sequence]
- Paul Levitt - Carp's Assistant [1890 Sequence]
- Charles Grapewin - Grandpa Reed [Modern Sequence]
- Bobby Hyatt - Binks [Modern Sequence]
- Ruth Lee - Bully's Mother [Modern Sequence]
- Liz Fraser - Mother Reed [Modern Sequence]
- Director(s):
- Michael Kanin
- Writer(s):
- Michael Kanin
- Producer(s):
- Sam P. Eagle, Sam Spiegel
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