This past year, Susan Orlean (the New Yorker writer played by Meryl Streep in Adaptation) wrote an entire book about the history of this star dog. For a time, the dog — played over the year by many German shepards — was one of silent and talkie film’s most well-known actors, appearing in more than 20 movies by the time TV’s The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin came around in 1954.
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