Figure 1.--This poster shows Tim Hoey wearing a blazer as his school uniform. I seem to remember the boys wearing a darker outfit.
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Figure 1.--This poster shows Tim Hoey wearing a blazer as his school uniform. I seem to remember the boys wearing a darker outfit. |
Tim Hovey goes to an American boarding run by two kind-heated, but dottery head masters--in fact the only masters. The uniform is proper gray short pants, black knee socks, and black blazers with caps. He is only seven, but most of the other boys look to be about 10-13. Most of the film is set at the schools with the boys in their uniforms. This is one of the best films with American boys in school uniform. The school is depicted rather unrealistically. The boys are referred to as "Mister" so and so. For punishment they write lines such as "Young gentlemen do not fight." Staff stand around to serve dinner. Interestingly when the boys go camping they switch to scout uniforms with long pants and their school cap. An advertising man substitutes for his imaginary father.
One American film comes to mind with boys wearing school uniforms--Toy Tiger. It stars Laraine Day and Jeff Chandler in the lead roles, along with a young star named Tim Hovey, the main juvenile character of this film. The youngster's mom is a busy
career-woman, a widowed ad agency exec (Laraine Day). He attends a boys' prep school directed by two brothers, portrayed by Richard Haydn and Cecil Kellaway. The young star, a bit envious that the other boys have dads, has created a fictional father who has
astonishing adventures all over the world--a ploy that also explains why he never visits. Our hero goes to great lengths to keep up this charade, until one day he goes too far in a verbal sparring match with a rival and announces that his dad WILL SO visit him at
the school. With a group of boys from the school watching him from a distance, he picks out a stranger (Jeff Chandler) from the bus and pretends to be the town's official "greeter". To the boys it appears that his dad has indeed arrived for a visit. In a coincidence only Hollywood could make believable, the stranger happens to work for his mom. By film's end,
they are indeed a happily family, as Ms. Day and Mr. Chandler wed. In the film the boys wear dark blue blazers, white shirts, blue ties, gray shorts, blue knee socks, and blue peaked caps.
Tim Hovey goes to an American boarding run by two kind-heated, but dottery head masters--in fact the only masters. The youngster's mom is a busy career-woman, a widowed ad agency exec (Laraine Day). He attends a boys' prep school directed by two brothers, portrayed by Richard Haydn and Cecil Kellaway. The young star, a bit envious that the other boys have dads, has created a fictional father who has
astonishing adventures all over the world--a ploy that also explains why he never visits. Our hero goes to great lengths to keep up this charade, until one day he goes too far in a verbal sparring match with a rival and announces that his dad WILL SO visit him at
the school. An advertising man substitutes for his imaginary father. With a group of boys from the school watching him from a distance, he picks out a stranger (Jeff Chandler) from the bus and pretends to be the town's official "greeter". To the boys it appears that his dad has indeed arrived for a visit. In a coincidence only Hollywood could make believable, the stranger happens to work for his mom. By film's end, they are indeed a happily family, as Ms. Day and Mr. Chandler wed.
The film was directed by Jerry Hopper. It was a remake of Mad About Music with a gender change. Tim Hovey takes on the Deanna Durbin role of a boarding school student who needs love and attention from family.
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Figure 2.--Tim is seen here in the publicity still that the above poster was based on. |
The cast includes Jeff Chandler, Laraine Day, Tim Hovey, Cecil Kellaway, Richard Haydn, David Janssen, Judson Pratt, Jacqueline DeWit, Mary Field, and Butch Bernard. The main boy actor is Tim Hovey who delivers a charming performance. He was small for his age. He was about 10 years old in this film, but looks younger. He had a short career, but appeared in several films during 1955-59. Tim played a similar role a year earlier in a film set in a militry schhol, The Private War of Major Benson (1955).
One American film comes to mind with boys wearing school uniforms--Toy Tiger. The uniform is proper gray short pants, black knee socks, and black blazers with caps. In the film the boys wear dark blue blazers, white shirts, blue ties, gray shorts, blue knee socks, and blue peaked caps.
The main character, Tim Hovey, looks only about 7 years old, but most of the other boys look to be about 10-13. (Tim was born in 1945 so he was about 10 or 11 as the fim was made in 1956.) The film stars Laraine Day and Jeff Chandler in the lead roles.
Most of the film is set at the schools with the boys in their uniforms. This is one of the best films with American boys in school uniform. The school is depicted rather unrealistically. The boys are referred to as "Mister" so and so. For punishment they write lines such as "Young gentlemen do not fight." Staff stand around to serve dinner.
Interestingly when the boys go camping they switch to scout uniforms with long pants and their school cap.
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