Pal (June 4, 1940 - 1958), was a male Rough Collie. Events 781 BC - The first historic Solar eclipse is recorded in China. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He was the first of a line of collies to portray the fictional female collie Lassie. Lassie, a dog is a Fictional character that has starred in or been the subject of many radio shows, Movies, TV shows, and Books Pal was owned by animal trainers Frank and Rudd Weatherwax. Animal training refers to Teaching Animals specific responses to specific conditions or stimuli. Frank Thrall Weatherwax ( June 23 1902 &ndash December 17 1991) was an American Actor and animal trainer. Ruddell Bird "Rudd" Weatherwax ( September 23, 1907 &ndash February 25, 1985) was an American Actor and animal trainer
During the filming of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film Lassie Come Home. Lassie Come Home ( 1943) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Feature film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor Pal in a story The studios had decided to use a show collie trained by Frank Inn to portray the title character. Show dog is not a variety, kind, type, or breed of dog neither is it a dog trained for a specific skill as in assistance dog or Frank Inn was born as Elias Franklin Freeman, ( May 8, 1916 - July 27, 2002) was an American animal trainer. However, a snap decision was made to take advantage of a massive flooding of the Sacramento River in northern California in order to obtain some spectacular footage for the film. The Sacramento River is the longest River entirely within the U California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. As the collie was still in training, MGM hired Pal as a stand-in for the river scene. A stunt double is a type of Body double, specifically a skilled replacement used for dangerous film or video sequences, in Movies and Television Although the work was considered complicated for an animal actor, the dog performed exceptionally well. An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works According to legend, after seeing the first prints, the head of MGM, Louis B. Mayer, stated that "Pal had entered the water, but Lassie had come out", and a new star was born. Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir July 4, 1884 &ndash October 29, 1957) was an early Film producer, most
Pal died in 1958, but a long line of Pal's descendants have continued to portray Lassie, most recently in a 1994 update of the original film.
In 1945, Pal played Laddie in Son of Lassie, and in 1949 played Lassie once more in Challenge to Lassie, an alternative adaptation of the book Greyfriars Bobby, by Eleanor Atkinson. Son of Lassie is an MGM Feature film released in 1945 starring Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, and June Lockhart and the dog Challenge to Lassie is an American drama directed by Richard Thorpe and released October 31 1949 by MGM Studios. Greyfriars Bobby was a Skye Terrier who became known in 19th-century Edinburgh, Scotland, after reportedly spending fourteen years guarding his owner's Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson ( 1863 - November 4, 1942) was an American Author, Journalist and Teacher. Pal also appeared in the two 1954 pilots ("The Inheritance" and "The Well") prepared for the CBS television series, Lassie. The first season of the television series Lassie premiered in the United States on CBS on September 12, 1954. Lassie is an Emmy Award -winning American Television series that follows the adventures of a female rough collie named Lassie
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External links
- Pal at the Internet Movie Database
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