Yeah, I knew that. It’s interesting that Felix Salten was also the author of the infamous Josephine Mutzenbacher - The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself, which kinda explains his love for stripper names ;).
The English translation of Bambi was written by Whittaker Chambers, who later became famous as Alger Hiss’ accuser in the “Pumpkin Papers” spy case.
Nah. The Principal Boy being played by a woman is an old tradition in panto going back to its music hall origins - it’s not confined to Peter Pan.
Wow, that Bambi stuff seems to have been created by some interesting characters. Maybe I should read that book someday.
Can you think of any even semi-common male names in the US (define “in the US” as given to native-born boys, not children adopted from overseas) that both end in “i” and aren’t Hebrew in origin? I can’t.
Dumb and Dumber, the Jim Carey character mistakes Austria for Australia.
Also has another stripper name in it.
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Alexei and Dmitri. Oh and Sergei.
I don’t think those are “semi-common US names.” Those names would make me think the person was Russian.
Salten also wrote the book Perri about a squirrel (Hey! That ends in an “i”, too!). Disney made it into a “Real Life Adventure” movie in the late 1950s. Bambi – I kid you not – makes a cameo appearance.
Presumably a real deer. I haven’t seen the movie since I was a kid. I don’t think Disney ever ran it on TV, and it only recently became available, in a very limited way, on home video.
Perri is a girl squirrel, by the way.
Have you ever seen the movie? He has horns in the second half; he even fights using them.
Everyone knows Bambi is gay. He came out of the closet last year and is planning to marry Rudolph.
Gee, I thought Bambi was the past tense of Bimbo. 
You know what else was written in German by an Austrian?
Just sayin’.
Die Zauberflöte?
Fail. None of those names is even common enough to be in the top 1000 most popular names given to boys in the US, never mind be semi-common.
So what if I did? I’m not apologising. My life collapsed after “Bambi”. I was a lovable fawn alright, unusable for anything else. I took the Babycham stuff, sure, thanks to Mike here, but… I was finished. When the porn “Bambi” came along, well, I thought, this is where I get something back… If it hadn’t been for the chance to present University Challenge and start a new life, I’d be giving executive relief to woodland creatures to this very day.
Has anyone actually met a woman named or nicknamed ‘Bambi’? Not a working name for someone in the, ah, entertainment field, but an actual nickname?
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If he’d been named Sergei, it would have been a completely different movie. Sergei is badass, unless you anglicize it into ‘Suergey.’ Then you’re a puss.
Can’t say that I have, even in the entertainment field. Why, do you know one? Does she have a sister?
I knew a girl that everyone called Bambi, and she answered to the name. I don’t know if it was her real name. Not the only thing about her we wondered whether real or not. She seriously fit a stereotype, since she was a plasticy babe who acted dumber than a box of empty whiskey bottles. I like the way the line goes up the back of her stockings. I always liked those kind of high heels, too.
I hate to disillusion all you people, but Bambi is a sexless fictional cartoon character.
(Likewise, Tinker Bell, Peter Pan, and the Great Pumpkin are also fictional)