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Date Posted: 22:14:25 04/17/12 Tue
Author: Lemora
Subject: "Rin Tin Tin: The Life And The Legend" by Susan Orlean

Calling all dog lovers! I've just started this memoir/biography and am totally enthralled. It's my favorite animal book since Laura Hillenbrand's "Sea Biscuit." What Hillenbrand did for the forgotten legacies of Charles Howard, Red Pollard, and Tom Smith and their remarkable horse, Orlean does for those most responsible for the initial success and continuing legacy of Rin Tin Tin. He was a German Shepard who became a movie star in the 1920's. Rinty was born in a bombed out military facility in France in 1918, during WWI. Found by American soldier Lee Duncan, he was brought back to the United States and hit it big in Hollywood. Fourteen years later, Rinty died in the arms of Jean Harlow, who lived across the street in Beverly Hills. Not a bad life. Rinty's descendants enjoyed varying degrees of success. I most vividly remember Rin Tin Tin III in a television series in 1956. I can still hear Rusty yell, "Yo Rinty!" This story of Lee Duncan's orphaned childhood; the halcyon days of Rinty I's performing career; Duncan's and Rinty III's 1950's TV producer Bert Leonard; Daphne Hereford, current owner of "Rinty VIII" who travels around the U.S. keeping the legacy alive, and others is beautiful and heartbreaking. My mom owned a puppy sired by the original Rinty, and named --of course-- Rin Tin Tin, 1927-1937. I have a wonderful photo of mom's Rinty in an ancient bakelite frame. If you love dogs, get this book.

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