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Unknown to theater-goers that saw boy and dog parted in the film was the fact that the written agreement supplying the animal stated that My Lady would become the personal property of Brandon deWilde upon completion of filming. [1] The rare breed of dog had been unknown to most Americans.
Veronica Tudor-Williams provided the Basenji, named My Lady of the Congo, who played Lady in the film, and also provided four additional dogs to serve as "doubles" for My Lady. After filming ended, My Lady was adopted by deWilde, and the other dogs were adopted by various members of the film crew. [2] The film version was released on 12 May 1956.
Unlike the 1936 film, none of the members of the original Broadway cast of the show appeared in this version. The 1951 Show Boat was the most financially successful of the film adaptations of the show: one of MGM's most popular musicals, it was the second highest-grossing film of that year. [4]
The Basenji originated on the continent of Africa, [12] where it has been identified with Egyptian depictions of dogs with curled tails and erect ears, a breed called Tesem which is found in murals as old as 4,500 years. [13] [14] [15] Europeans first described the breed which became the Basenji in 1895 in the Congo. These dogs were prized by ...
Show Boat at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films; Showboat Film page, Reel Classics - photos, sound clips; Show Boat at IMDb; Show Boat at the TCM Movie Database; Show Boat on Lux Radio Theater: June 24, 1940. Starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, and Charles Winninger. Show Boat: Rollin’ on the River an essay by Gary Giddins at the Criterion ...
'The Love Boat' cast. ... who broke out as a child star with the movie Airplane! (1980), played Captain Stubing's daughter on The Love Boat, joining the show in its third season at the age of 11.
Gerry and Cookie Fleck's dog; about five dogs and their owners at the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show held in Philadelphia. Winn-Dixie Picardy Shepherd: Because of Winn-Dixie: Opal's canine friend; about a mischievous dog who befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends. Wolf German Shepherd: My Pal Wolf
Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name.The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927.