
17 Aug 1940

Famous Movie Dogs
Well-known canine performers of the 1930s vie for a part in an upcoming movie.
Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celebrity (Keaton, Lloyd, Arbuckle, Valentino, Fairbanks, Coogan) he appears to have been making himself up as.

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17 Aug 1940

Well-known canine performers of the 1930s vie for a part in an upcoming movie.

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