The Toy Tiger is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Laraine Day and Jeff Chandler.

[2] New York City advertising executive Gwen Harkinson is a widow with a son, Timmy, who lives full-time in an upstate boarding school.

She sends art director Rick Todd in that direction to try to rehire Mike Wyman, a former creative talent for the ad agency who has given up that life to become a sculptor.

At school, Timmy has been lying to classmates that his father is not only alive but a famous big-game hunter and explorer.

Mike not only refuses to return to advertising but inspires aspiring painter Rick to follow in his footsteps.