Felix Salten himself was an avid hunter. Life in Austria became perilous for a prominent Jew during the 1930s. Adolf Hitler had Salten's books banned in 1936. Two years later, after Germany's annexation of Austria, Salten moved to Zurich, Switzerland, with his wife, and spent his final years there. Felix Salten died on 8 October 1945, at the age of 76. He is buried at Israelitischer Friedhof Unterer Friesenberg. Salten married actress Ottilie Metzl (1868–1942) in 1902, and had two children: Paul (1903–1937) and Anna Katharina (1904–1977). He composed another book based on the character Bambi, titled "Bambi's Children: The Story of
I Was a Teenage Werewolf Gen. Kirk on the short-run TV series "The Time Tunnel". Although today the film is largely regarded as a source of "camp" humor, and while at the time of release the idea of an adult human turning into a beast was nothing new, the idea of a "teenager" doing just that in a movie was considered avant-garde—and even shocking—in 1957. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" likely paved the way for Walt Disney to do his version of a Felix Salten shapeshifting novel, "The Hound of Florence". Featuring Disney favorite Tommy Kirk as the hapless teenager, and A-lister Fred MacMurray as