Experience: I was Bambi

The premiere was packed. When Bambi’s mother was shot there were gasps and parents covered their children’s eyesIt was more than 75 years ago, but I remember that call. It came through on the kitchen phone at our home in Westwood, California, and my mother answered. It was Walt Disney on the other end. He wanted me to talk about a role in a new feature he was working on; a cartoon about a group of animals in a forest. My mother thought it sounded terrific.My agent hated it. I was onl