7.
Those
horrified
by
the
(decades-old
spoiler
alert!)
early
death
of
Bambi’s
mother
aren’t
alone.
Diane
Disney complained
to
her
dad about
the
inclusion
only
to
be
told
he
was
following
the
narration
of
the
book, Bambi:
A
Life
in
the
Woods. In
response,
she
pointed
out
the
liberties
he’d
taken
in
the
past.
8.
To
get
the
life
story
of
a
fawn just right,
animators
watched
nature
films,
took
field
trips
to
the
Los
Angeles
Zoo,
studied
the
movements
of
two
deer
donated
to
the
studio
and,
in
the
biggest
show
of
commitment,
observed
the
decomposition
of
a
dead
deer.
9.
After
accepting
what
would
be
the
role
of
his
lifetime
at
age
6, Donnie
Dunagan,
the
voice
of
Bambi,
went
on
to
join
the
Marines
and serve
in
the
Vietnam
War.
Taking
pains
to
never
talk
about
his
brush
with
fame
(“Most
of
the
image
in
people’s
minds
of
Bambi
was
a
little
frail
deer,
not
doing
very
well,
sliding
around
on
the
ice
on
his
belly,”
he noted
to
NPR’s
StoryCorps)
it
came
up
when
he
was
just
weeks
away
from
retirement as
he
respectfully
told
a general
he
didn’t
have
time
to
complete
an
assigned
task.
“He
looked
at
me,
pulled
his
glasses
down
like
some
kind
of
college
professor,”
he
recalled. “There’s
a
big,
red,
top-secret
folder
that
he
got
out
of
some
safe
somewhere
that
had
my
name
on
it.
He
pats
this
folder,
looks
me
in
the
eye
and
says, ‘You
will
audit
the
auditors.
Won’t
you,
Maj.
Bambi?'”
Celebrity Fails
