Famous Scottish Terriers

Not just another casting couch

Here’s Lana turner with a Scottie puppy. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find any back story and she doesn’t seem to have been a Scottish Terrier owner in real life.

The Scottie appears to have had only a cameo role

A poodle costarred with Jayne Mansfield in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, often wearing accessories that matched the actress’ outfits. The Scottish Terrier, however, is a bit of a mystery. All we can guess is that he (or she, in keeping with the times) may have been the poodle’s much shorter love interest.

Finally, Martha Stewart, dog lover but not a Scottie person, shows how to have a perfect bed.

At Martha’s photo shoots dogs are allowed on the bed

Read through the Scottie News‘ famous Scottish Terrier archives.

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Linus and Mary (both rescues)  behave like cats and interrupt the packing.

Linus and Mary belong to Laurie and Paul Feig. Paul is the creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids, and Laurie is a producer too so these Scotties are Hollywood royalty.

Favourite son

Not only do they sleep on some great looking jackets, they get to have their photos taken for the Feigs’ New York apartment where the focal point is Frank Bruynbroek’s double portrait of Linus. “We have another dog, Mary,” Feig told New York magazine, “but she photographs like an old prospector, so she didn’t get the big wall.”

In other words, she failed her screen test. The Scottish Terrier and Dog News hopes that doesn’t mean Mary will be excluded from any Golden Globes celebrations. We wouldn’t want to have to call the Humane Society.

Read more about Hollywood Scottish Terriers:

• Lena – Tatum O’Neal’s beloved Scottish Terrier, whose death “set her off”
• Puppy Dearest – Joan Crawford’s Scottie
• Duffy - Julie Andrews’ wheaten Scottish Terrier
• Corkey – Shirley Temple’s Scottish Terrier
• African Queen and Kane Mutiny – Humphrey Bogart’s Scotties
• Tibby – Bette Davis’ Scottish Terrier puppy
• Jock – from Lady and the Tramp

And check out Scotties who look like celebs.

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The Scottish Terrier and Dog News has received a few indignant emails about the fact that there is no Fala — aka the most famous dog in the world — in the new FDR movie, out today. And as you can see, according to the Hyde Park on the Hudson trailer below, they are indeed right.

But there’s a reason Fala is missing. The movie takes place in June of 1939 and he wasn’t born until April 1940.

Now, Hollywood being Hollywood, they could have, and probably should have, moved the birth forward a few months and cast a cute Scottish Terrier for effect, but for some reason they didn’t.

This is especially interesting given that Margaret “Daisy” Suckley, who is portrayed the President’s alleged love interest in the movie, is the one who actually gave him Fala as an early Christmas present.

Alleged love interest “Daisy” Suckley with Fala at FDR’s funeral.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Bill Murray, who plays FDR, says the president needed Fala:

“Mr. Murray, whose Roosevelt is attended by, and occasionally must elude, a small army of women—including his wife, Eleanor (Olivia Williams), his teetotalling mother (Elizabeth Wilson), and his secretary Marguerite “Missy” LeHand (Elizabeth Marvel)—offered typically Murray-esque perspective on playing the president. “Just working with these actresses—it was a henhouse, it was insane. The mother. The girlfriend. The wife and the secretary and the maids,” he said. “This guy was beleaguered. They were all after him. Thank God he had a dog.” (That dog, Fala, was famously trained by Daisy.)

If you’ve got time, catch up on the Scottie News‘ previous Fala coverage.

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Helen Keller with a Scottie at her feet, Anne Sullivan, Polly Thomson and Helga the Great Dane

Okay we’re not 100% sure that this is Anne Sullivan’s politically incorrectly named Darky, but it’s highly likely. The Great Dane, who belongs to Helen Keller, is supposedly called Helga, which makes for a somewhat uncomfortable name juxtaposition. But this is now and that was then.

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The things you find on YouTube. Don’t you just love Bette’s dog-washing outfit? No aprons for her. I’m surprised she didn’t just wear the dress from her portrait.

Let’s ponder the big questions. Did Bette Davis wash MacTavish before the portrait so he didn’t get the dress dirty? Or did she just not care that much about the dress?

For all you Bette Davis fans out there, who can’t get enough, here she is in a glamour shot with Mac  and again with a Scottie pup called Tibby.

And if you don’t fancy The Hunger Games this weekend, you can stream All About Eve and other Bette Davis movies live from Amazon.

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From ModernScottieDog.com: Actress Ida Lupino with her two Scotties in the 1940s

Stuart of the Scottie Chronicles, who celebrated his birthday yesterday, also visited the fanciest dog park ever earlier in the week. Happy slightly belated birthday, Stuart!
A Scottish Terrier named Gyp figures in some sad World War II reminiscesalthough the dog’s story is comparatively happy.

There are updates to yesterday’s story about the Scottish Terrier in the lawn commercial.

And there’s a new Scottie site in town. Its creative director Connie writes: “I co-author a blog with my sister about the Modern Scottie Dog. We are two sisters living in MN and CA, both passionate about our Scottie dogs, blogging, and photography. I have been a long time subscriber to the Scottish Terrier News and look forward to many more of your newsletters, I added a link to your site in the category of news. We are both passionate Scottie owners and hope through blogging to share the rich history of this breed and its owners. We hope you will share our blog with your followers too. We will soon be launching our website, ModernDogLife.com, a lifestyle site for the modern family dog.”

If you have a Scottish Terrier website or event, let the Scottie News know and we’ll try to help publicize it.

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