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Although Walt Disney's So Dear to My Heart is 99 per cent round and real, its cartoon sequences make lessons more fun than a Mickey Mouse
ABOUT three years ago, Mr. Walt Disney, the Rodent & Whimsey man, needed an actor who was a Harpo Marx, Charles Laughton and Gary Cooper rolled into one. He also had to be coal black, four-legged and a rascal. Walt was casting his first 99 per cent "live" picture with real, "round" actors—a nostalgic little number dubbed So Dear to My Heart and based on the devotion of a small Indiana boy for an unwanted black sheep.
Hollywood, which can come up with anything from a trained Brontosaurus to a double-talking killyloo bird at a moments notice, couldnt produce a black lamb with ham in its blood. Seems that the black sheep, while common in the two-legged world, happens only about once in 10,000 times in ovine circles, and none in the knowledge of man had ever developed the histrionic ability of a Barrymore.
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