Disney to pull Boy Scouts funding by 2015...

[morosco]

Posted: 3/1/14 at 12:41pm

...over policy banning gay leaders

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/1/14 at 2:14pm

In the early 1960s Disney did a movie about the Boy Scouts with Fred MacMurray and a teenage Kurt Russell -- can't remember the name of the movie but they used to show it about once a year on The Wonderful World of Disney.

[morosco]

Posted: 3/1/14 at 6:06pm

Follow Me, Boys! is a 1966 family film produced by Walt Disney Productions, based on the book God and My Country by MacKinlay Kantor. It was the last production released by Disney before Walt Disney died of lung cancer, two weeks after the film's release.

The film starred Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Charles Ruggles, and Kurt Russell, was co-produced by Walt Disney and Winston Hibler, directed by Norman Tokar, and written by Louis Pelletier. The film is also known by its working title, On My Honor.

It is one of the few movies where Boy Scouts are key to the film and is Disney's paean to the Boy Scouts. The title song "Follow Me, Boys!" was written by studio favorites Robert and Richard Sherman. For a time, after the film was released, the Boy Scouts of America was considering using the song as their anthem, but efforts toward this end were eventually dropped. Boys Life for December 1966 included a teaser article on the film.

This is the first of ten Disney films in which Kurt Russell would appear over the next ten years. This was the last movie released during the life of Walt Disney.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/1/14 at 9:05pm

That's a really great movie. Love it so much.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/1/14 at 9:09pm

At this post, the role of Mr Roxy will be played by FindingNamo:

So much for tolerance.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/2/14 at 10:26am

Who did Lilian Gish play? The ghost? She must've been a 100 in 1966!

(Just kidding! She was only in her 70s.) Updated On: 3/2/14 at 10:26 AM

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/2/14 at 12:19pm

After Tommy Kirk was fired by Disney for violating the morals clause of his contract, Disney hired Kurt Russell to be their new teen star.

[BroadwayBenny]

Posted: 3/2/14 at 12:56pm

Quote from bob3:
After Tommy Kirk was fired by Disney for violating the morals clause of his contract, Disney hired Kurt Russell to be their new teen star.

Yeah, in 1963 …Also, Kirk was rehired to finish the Merlin Jones series later on. His initial firing was more due to the mother of the underaged kid that Tommy was sleeping with who was threatening Walt to take care of it. It was damage control, and no matter how wrong that seems today, it is perfectly understandable that someone would have been fired from ANY studio in lieu of not just a potential gay scandal but especially one involving a minor. The only relevance it has to the present day, is to show how far we've come.

The Walt Disney Company of today has made it very clear that they support the LGBT community.