In the 1991 film hook which focuses on a grown up version of peter pan tootles is an elderly man living in contemporary london.
Who lost his marbles in peter pan.
Everyone believed toodles had gone senile.
Tootles is the peter pan character who is seen searching for something on the floor and explains i ve lost my marbles in the movie hook.
In peter pan and the pirates he wears a panda cap.
He has become senile with age and wanders around saying that he s lost his marbles which peter banning jokingly agrees with.
Q from mike pataky.
Marbles were originally made from the stone marble.
When they did one particular lost boy toodles was seen searching for his lost marbles.
In this expansion of the peter pan universe tootles appears to be senile but it is later revealed that he has literally lost his marbles which he left in neverland many decades ago.
Is this the origin a there s no mention of marbles in j m barrie s original 1904 play peter pan.
What was peter lorre s role in.
So even after people started making them out of glass they kept the name marbles.
With age he began to become obsessed with having lost his marbles and attributed his frequent lack of.
I have an old marble marble.
Being a londoner myself i suspected it might be a cockney expression but i recently heard it in peter pan where the uncle who is not quite compos mentis is said to have found his lost marbles.
Yet toodles only appeared senile because no one knew the secret of those marbles.
In the film hook tootles appears as an old man living in wendy s house.
He searched high and low for that sack of marbles to no avail.
Can you tell me the origin of the expression he has lost his marbles meaning gone mad or lost his reason or done something really stupid being a londoner myself i suspected it might be a cockney expression but i recently heard it in peter pan where the uncle who is not quite compos mentis is said to have found his lost marbles.
It was toodles who i believe hid or misplaced them at one time and had forgotten where.