Strongheart: The World's First Movie Star Dog
A Nonfiction, Biography, History book. Unbeknownst to me, stretching back to the era after World...
Strongheart may have been a movie star, but he wasn't always famous. He started out as a police dog who could sniff out criminals and march like a soldier, but he didn't know how to have fun. Larry Trimble was a Hollywood director who wanted to put Strongheart in his movies—not just as a pet but as the lead actor. Larry taught him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog. In his films, Strongheart brought audiences to tears. He was a sensation! But when Strongheart's military training led to trouble, was his career over? Set in the early days of silent movies, Emily Arnold McCully's extraordinary story about a real-life hero will capture the hearts of dog lovers and movie fans...
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- Pages: 40 pages
- ISBN: 9780805094480 / 0
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Unbeknownst to me, stretching back to the era after World War I, another canine is responsible for the fame found by dogs on the silver and later the television screen. Based on factual research, this fictionalized account, Strongheart: The World's First Movie Star Dog (Henry Holt And Company, November 11, 2014) written and illustrated... Etzel, a German Shepherd, is adopted by the movie director, Larry Trimble, to star in silent films in the 1920s. A simple picture book with McCully's trademark illustrations that tells Etzel's story and how he participated in the early film industry. Great little know story.
