We had been with Universal and RKO on 6 or 7 films. Disney called my mother personally on the kitchen phone and invited us to come up to be the facial model, not the voice, for a deer. “I’m in my home with my mother in Westwood, California and Mr.
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“The artists were hard at work,” Behn said, “I knew I was a little rabbit but I didn’t really know that much more in total about the movie until later when I saw it.”ĭunagan was originally invited to Disney Studios to be a face model for Bambi. The first time I saw it was at the premiere which was in 1942, and until then I didn’t really know exactly what the storyline was because the recordings were done individually and in segments.” As for Thumper’s adorable bubbly laugh, “There was something that caused that laughter to come out. I was kind of a rambunctious kid and pretty vocal about various things so it probably wasn’t that difficult to get me to laugh.”īehn remembers touring the animation studio to see some of the drawings the animators were working on. In interviews, Dunagan and Behn spoke about their experiences in making the film and what has kept it so meaningful to them over the years.īehn was so young that he does not remember much about the recording sessions. “I remember going into the sound studio with a sound director and he would read the lines with the inflection that they wanted and then I would repeat the lines back. I wasn’t a really heavy reader in those days. Disney’s 1942 classic Bambi featured two of the most memorable voices in animated movie history, both from very young children. The title character, a young deer, was voiced by Donnie Dunagan, already a veteran of seven movies at age seven, and Bambi’s friend Thumper was voiced by Peter Behn, a first-time performer who was only four years old when he started recording. The two boys recorded their performances separately and never met until a couple of years ago when they appeared together on an episode of The View.
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