The Boy Who Owned a Melephant is a 1959 American short film directed by Saul Swimmer and featuring Tallulah Bankhead as narrator.

After seeing his first circus, young Johnnie (Brockman Seawell) asks for an elephant to keep as a pet.

To placate him, his mother (Molly Turner) whimsically "gives" him the elephant in the local zoo.

Co-written by Swimmer and Tony Anthony, and adapting a story by Marvin Wald, it was produced by a team credited as Gayle-Swimmer-Anthony,[4] which included frequent collaborator Peter Gayle.

[4] On March 19, 1967, it was paired with the 1952 French short White Mane as an episode of the television anthology series CBS Children's Film Festival.