# Old Disney Movie?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-disney-movie/216226 "2003-12-01T07:43:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-disney-movie/216226/1 "2003-12-01T07:43:46Z")
Please Help me please!! I vaguely recall watching a movie that was part of the Wonderful World of Disney in which Inger Stevens(I think) is dehydrated into a small statue. Can anyone remember this? ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-disney-movie/216226/2 "2003-12-01T08:11:06Z")
Hmm… The dehydrated in a tube thing sounds familiar… Was this from the seventies? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-disney-movie/216226/3 "2003-12-01T12:45:01Z")
This sounds like a circa 1960 Italian movie in which a professor invents a solution that can be used to “dehydrate” animals into a tiny, brittle statue. They can be reconstituted by a bath in salt water. His girlfriend/mistress drinks some of the stuff to hide from the professor’s wife, and the professor later finds her and "reconstitutes her in a bathtub of saline. They start meeting this way for their trysts, and at the end she has a close call when she is almost dropped (and broken), but luckily drops into the ocean, instead, and is reconsistuted. It’s definitely _not_ a Disney flick, and it wasn’t Inger Stevens in this version (according to the IMDB). The title was something like “Love of a Doll”, or something like that, but I haven’t been able to track it down on the IMDB. Apparently it was based on a short story, in which the woman ends up tragically broken. I saw part of the film once, but it was a long time ago. They wrote it up in Forrest J. Ackerman’s **Famous Monster of Filmland**. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-disney-movie/216226/4 "2003-12-01T12:58:42Z")
**Maud’Dib** I think you are thinking of the '60’s Batman movie. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-disney-movie/216226/5 "2003-12-01T17:42:06Z")
I remember there was also a _Star Trek_ episode like this. Sheesh, what was with the 60’s and dehydrating people? ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-disney-movie/216226/6 "2003-12-01T18:23:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Muad’Dib \* > \*\*I remember there was also a _Star Trek_ episode like this. > > Sheesh, what was with the 60’s and dehydrating people? \*\* …and in _Soylent Green_ people were dehydrated into crackers… ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-disney-movie/216226/7 "2003-12-02T01:49:07Z")
I took the liberty of posting your question on the IMDB board, and someone posited that your movie might be the 1957 classic [Girl in His Pocket](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050124/combined). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-disney-movie/216226/8 "2003-12-02T12:32:47Z")
> [@](#): > > took the liberty of posting your question on the IMDB board, and someone posited that your movie might be the 1957 classic Girl in His Pocket. That’s the one I was looking for! Couldn’t recall the exact title, and wasn’t able to find it on IMDB.