Author Susan Orlean, whose book The Orchid Thief became — more or less — director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's all but unwatchable Adaptation (Meryl Streep played Orlean), has another book out, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, published last September. Today, Deadline's Mike Fleming wrote a piece in which he explains that Orlean "discovered that the true Best Actor winner in the first Oscars in 1929 was the German Shepherd, not the German silent film actor Emil Jannings, who walked away with the prize." A quote from Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend found in The Hollywood Reporter reads: "According to Hollywood legend, Rinty received the most votes for best actor. But members of the Academy, anxious to establish the awards were serious and important, decided that giving an Oscar to a dog did not serve that end." I haven't read Orlean's book, so...
- 1/4/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
"Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend" by Susan Orlean details the life of Lee Duncan, the man who would eventually find Rin Tin Tin in a destroyed kennel during World War I, and the dog he made famous.
Duncan lived in an orphanage for several years as a child while his mother got her life straightened out. He went on to eventually own a terrier on his grandfather's ranch, but had to give up the puppy when his family moved.
Then as Wwi soldier, Duncan rescued two German shepherd puppies from a destroyed kennel in France, naming them Nanette and Rin Tin Tin. Nanette didn't make it, but Rin Tin Tin went on to become one of Hollywood's most famous actors, animal or otherwise.His first appearance was in the 1922 film "The Man from Hell's River" and his last was in "The Lightning Warrior" in 1931. Rinty, as Duncan called him for short,...
Duncan lived in an orphanage for several years as a child while his mother got her life straightened out. He went on to eventually own a terrier on his grandfather's ranch, but had to give up the puppy when his family moved.
Then as Wwi soldier, Duncan rescued two German shepherd puppies from a destroyed kennel in France, naming them Nanette and Rin Tin Tin. Nanette didn't make it, but Rin Tin Tin went on to become one of Hollywood's most famous actors, animal or otherwise.His first appearance was in the 1922 film "The Man from Hell's River" and his last was in "The Lightning Warrior" in 1931. Rinty, as Duncan called him for short,...
- 9/27/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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