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Blair
In 1905, Blair was the first canine movie star and was featured
in "Rescued by Rover". Blair was a Collie owned by the movies director and an actor in the movie, Cecil Hepworth. It was a British film where a baby is kidnapped by an old beggar woman, but the faithful family dog Rover comes to its rescue. |
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Lassie - The Lassie Network
Lassie is undoubtedly the world's most famous dog and is a character who has starred in many movies, TV shows, and books over the years.
Lassie was created by Eric Knight and published as a short story in the Saturday Evening Post in 1938 and as a novel in 1940.
All of the "Lassie's" were male |
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Lassie Come Home
with Roddy McDowall
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| collies and all the official Lassies are descendents of the original Lassie. |
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Goofy
Goofy first appeared over
seven decades ago in Mickey's Revue (1932). Then a bit
player (as an obnoxious "laugher" in a barnyard audience),
he sported whiskers
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square
spectacles and was called Dippy Dawg. |
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Rin
Tin Tin - Official
Site
The nations first canine
movie star. Born in Germany, he was rescued from the trenches
as a puppy and brought to the United States by Lee Duncan,
an American pilot in World War I, who was also his trainer.
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First appearing in Where The North Begins in 1925,
Rin Tin Tin went on to make 25 movies, sign his own
contracts with a paw print, and at the height of his
success was his studios major wage earner, earning
approx. 5 Million Dollars. |
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Snoopy
The Red Baron hunting Beagle from Charles
Schultz' extremely popular comic strip, Peanuts. Snoopy
also guest starred in the movie special Snoopy vs. The
Red baron, as of course the fly boy. |
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Eddie
- (from Paramount
TV )
Moose, a Jack Russell Terrier, portrays Eddie
in the hit comedy series FRASIER. Eddie is Martin's faithful
companion and partner in crime. Having graced the covers
of such notable publications as Life, TV Guide and Entertainment
Weekly, as well
as joining the ranks of Cindy Crawford and Kathy Ireland
with his own calendar. |
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with Frasier and Niles
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Spuds
MacKenzie
The original party animal, he made his
debut in a Bud Light beer commercial during the Super
Bowl in 1987. Spuds, who was also a senior party consultant
for the Anheuser-Busch Company, had a black circle around
one eye. He became a hit almost overnight. Spuds was water
skiing, skateboarding, lounging by a pool with beautiful
women or something else equally glamorous. |
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His likeness appeared on T-shirts, sweaters,
mugs, posters and stuffed animals, outdoing other popular
characters of the time, including ALF and Max Headroom.
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Ch.
Bolero Dolce Sinfonia
He is not only a
great top winner and champion, but he is definitely a
Star. Of all the show dogs in the world, he was the one
recently used by Eukanuba dog food, filming in Hollywood
for one or more of their advertisements (Saatche &
Saatche of New York). |
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of this movie star
driving his Ferrari |
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is the model used by some dog fashion companies, and is
going to be seen in posters and more advertising programs
by Eukanuba and others. |
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