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Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a 1940 full-length novel, Lassie Come-Home. Knight's portrayal of Lassie bears some features in common with another fictional female collie of the same name, featured in the British writer Elizabeth Gaskell 's 1859 short ...
Pal (June 4, 1940 – June 18, 1958) was a male Rough Collie performer and the first in a line of such dogs to portray the fictional female collie Lassie in film, on radio, and on television. In 1992, The Saturday Evening Post said Pal had "the most spectacular canine career in film history".
Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie dog named Lassie and her companions, both human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 25, 1973, making it the eighth longest-running scripted American primetime television series.
In fact, Pal — the dog who made movie history by portraying Lassie in seven MGM films and starred in the pilot of the Lassie TV series — was born one year before Bob’s birth.
Lassie Come Home is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor feature ... a female collie was selected ... then substituted the male collie, Pal, in the role of "Lassie".
Lassie Come-Home is a novel written by Eric Knight about a rough collie's trek over many miles to be reunited with the boy she loves. [1] Knight had introduced the reading public to the canine character of Lassie in a magazine story published on 17 December 1938, in The Saturday Evening Post, a story which he later expanded to the novel and published in 1940 to critical and commercial success.
An advocate for L.A.'s most famous feline, P-22, is asking why the puma can't get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which has honorees including Lassie and Rin Tin Tin and fictional characters ...
The armed male suspect was shot and killed by police following the incident on Jan. 18 ... “Our deputies arrived on scene and found a 40-year-old female along with a two-year-old child deceased ...