Felix Salten a Forest Family" (1939). His stories "Perri" and "The Hound of Florence" inspired the Disney films "Perri" (1957) and "The Shaggy Dog" (1959), respectively. Salten is now considered to be the anonymous author of a witty, full of social criticism, celebrated erotic novel, "Josephine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself" (1906). Felix Salten Felix Salten (; 6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austrian author and critic in Vienna. His most famous work is "Bambi, a Life in the Woods" (1923). Salten was born Siegmund Salzmann in Pest, Austria-Hungary, the grandson 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