Princess Marie Bonaparte sitting on Oscar Nemon’s Sculpture of Topsy, Paris, 1961 First edition published in 1940, TOPSY, is a psychoanalytic tale of the effects of a dog on its owner; the analyst is the great Marie Bonaparte. Only after being told that her chow had cancer did she realize the attachment she developed to […]
YOU ARE VISITING THE CELEBRITIES CATEGORY
It is amazing how many of the rich and famous... from silent films, to politics, and socialites adored their chows. The breed was quite the status symbol in America from the turn of the century through the 1940's and many stars even showed chows.
___________________________________________________________________________________
Click the most recent article entries to the archive below
CHECK THE LEFT COLUMN FOR THE ENTIRE LISTING OF ARTICLES
___________________________________________________________________________________
1916 Charlie Chaplin – Chow tracks down silent movie icon in New York City
In my ongoing quest for that elusive photograph of Charlie Chaplin with a chow, I ran into this funny little article circa 1916 with a great illustration of Chaplin being “hunted down” by a chow dog while visiting New York. There wasn’t a soul who didn’t know who Charlie Chaplin was so hiding in the […]
BREED PIONEER – The GREENACRE KENNELS of Actor-Director E.K. Lincoln
ABOVE IS A VERY RARE IMAGE OF ACTOR E.K. LINCOLN ADVERTISING HIS CINEMA WORK AND HIS DOGS…A TREASURE FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTION Mr. E.K. Lincoln and his Greenacre Kennels was one of the most prominent figures in early American chow history with an amazing legacy of winners and producers, not to mention his incredible legacy […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- …
- 32
- Next Page »
Recent Comments