Hollywood Dogs
Hollywood Dogs Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation
Foreword by William Secord Introduction by Robert Dance
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Elizabeth Taylor, MGM, 1950
Rock Hudson, Universal, 1965
Throughout her life Elizabeth Taylor was devoted to her dogs, and is seen here attempting to bath her Cocker Spaniel, Amy
A devoted dog lover, Rock Hudson owned seven dogs of different breeds including Demi Tasse the Poodle and an Irish Setter named Tucker. He is seen her with his Schnauzer Murphy in a picture taken during the filming of Strange Bedfellows in 1965
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Steve McQueen, Columbia, 1962
Diana Rigg and Patrick MacNee, Associated British Corporation, 1965
Between takes on the set of The War Lover, Steve McQueen unwinds by playing with a German Shepherd puppy
Diana Rigg had been working in the theatre for five years before taking on the role of Emma Peel in The Avengers from 1965 to 1967. It was a role that would define her to a generation of television viewers. In a 1967 interview with German fans she said ‘I have a white Poodle called Poopie the Ghost. He acts like a puppy’
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Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle, Keystone Studio, 1918
Pola Negri, Paramount Pictures, 1928
This American Staffordshire Terrier was a present to Arbuckle’s actor wife Minta Durfee from the film director Wilfred Lucas, after she had performed a particularly risky stunt in one of his films, and so it was named Luke after the director. He soon became Arbuckle’s canine sidekick and performed in eleven films with him between 1915 and 1920, and also appeared with Al St John and Buster Keaton
Covered up from the California sun, Pola Negri shares her sun lounger with a German Shepherd. Negri was a Polish actor who had trained as a ballet dancer and violinist before turning to film in Hollywood where her ‘exotic’ continental personality was used to great effect in silent pictures, most successfully under the direction of Ernst Lubitsch Photograph by Otto Dyer
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Bette Davis, Warner Brothers, 1934
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, MGM, 1945
A studio publicity shot, with two fluffy dogs artfully arranged in the drawers of her dressing table
Tracy hated being photographed, but was persuaded by Hepburn to pose for a publicity shot for Without Love, accompanied by the Cairn Terrier, Dizzy. This was Hepburn and Tracy’s third film together, and they remained devoted to each other (despite his ongoing marriage) until his death in 1967, after which time Hepburn took on the care of his dog, Lobo Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
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Norma Shearer, MGM, 1934
Norma Shearer, MGM, 1934
In a break from filming The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Norma Shearer takes care of the two Cocker Spaniels who took it in turn to play Elizabeth Barrrett Browning’s pet dog Flush Photograph by William Grimes
In costume with a Cocker Spaniel on the set of The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Shearer played Elizabeth Barrett, the invalid poet who married Robert Browning and who did indeed have a Spaniel, Flush, who was taken everywhere with her Photograph by George Hurrell
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