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Appearance/Availablilty

Appearances are rated...
Extra - Don't blink, part of a crowd or in the background.
Cameo - Part of a scene or two and has some business.
Character - Featured in the story.

Character/OOP

When an unscrupulous guardian tries to grab Gloria's fortune, it is up to her Fawn Great Dane, Teddy, to come to the rescue.

Keystone Teddy is a Fawn or lightly marked Brindle Great Dane seen in several
Keystone Comedies of the era.

In this film, he sings with Gloria, dances with her maid, stops a train, saves the girl and reunites her with the right man.

Character/VIDEO
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When Tao's Eskimo owner is killed,
the Dane is forced into a rugged life.

His son, Wapi,
is a vicious sled dog.
When Wapi meets a caring woman he helps her save her husband from a ruthless killer.
A Black or Blue Great Dane plays both parts. Based on a story by James Oliver Curwood.

Extra/VIDEO
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This is the film that made Rudolph Valentino
the greatest sex symbol of the silent era.
A Harlequin Great Dane appears briefly,
with Valentino's character, Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan,
in front of the Sheik's tent, just after he has kidnapped the character Lady Diana Mayo, played by Agnes Ayres.


Thanks to Melissa Harrel for bringing this Great Dane to our attention.

Cameo/OOP

This silent feature tells the tale of a country girl (Mabel Normand) who comes to Hollywood to become a star and ends up in the wardrobe department.

In one scene, Keystone Teddy,
a lightly marked Brindle
Great Dane, gets dressed up as a lion!

Cameo/VIDEO

This silent black & white Buster Ketan comedy feature tells the tale of a man who learns that he'll inherit a fortune if married by 7 pm that day!.












The Great Dane, a pet of the leading lady's character.
At first being portrayed by a tiny Dalmatian puppy the dog grows up into a Harlequin Great Dane with natural ears that turn to cropped and back to natural.










The dog gets the center of attention at the end of the feature.

Cameo/OOP

This silent short stars the Little Rascals.
One of the kids dreams they are put on trial by animals.
This makes him and the other Rascals go on a spree releasing pets and animals.

A natural earred Fawnequin Dane is one of the dogs and also portrays a policeman in the dream sequence.


This short was available on the video OUR GANG: VOLUME 7.
This appears to be the same dog as seen in DOG HEAVEN (1927)

Extra/OOP

This silent short stars the Little Rascals.
The kids' dog, Petey, relates he is about to commit suicide due to his owner's love affair with a girl.
A natural earred Fawnequin Dane appears briefly to push the little girl into a river.

This short was available on the video OUR GANG: VOLUME 7.
This appears to be the same dog seen in CAT, DOG AND COMPANY (1927).

Extra/VIDEO
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The classic Marx Brothers farce in which Groucho is placed in charge of the fictional kingdom of Freedonia.

When Groucho first meets Harpo, Harpo uses the tattooes on his body to answer Groucho's questions.
When Groucho asks where Harpo lives, Harpo reveals a dog house tattooed on his chest.

A fawn Dane pops its head out of the doghouse tattoo to bark at Groucho.

Extras/VIDEO
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Christina (Greta Garbo) ascends to the Swedish throne.
Early in the film she is seen riding into the castle followed by two Danes.
Later, the Danes are seen in the castle ascending some stairs.

The pair of Danes appear to be fawns or brindles - hard to tell

Thanks to Kasie Maxwell for bringing these Danes to our attention!

Character/VIDEO
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Black and White comedy starring Charlie Ruggles
and Mary Boland as a couple on their second honeymoon.
To save money the wife invites another couple
(George Burns and Gracie Allen)
who bring their fawn Great Dane, who insists on sitting in the front of the vehicle.

Thanks to Wendy Donati for bringing this Dane to our attention!

Cameo/NONE

Black and White comedy starring Jimmy Durante
as a poet who writes jokes for radio.

In one scene he enters a talent agent's office in the company of two Brindle Great Danes.
When the receptionist asks the breed of the dogs, Durante responds "full blooded mongoose".
At the end of the scene, the Danes break into a un-rehearsed quarrel caught on camera.

Thanks to Wendy Donati for bringing this Dane to our attention!

Extras/VIDEO
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Black and white classic telling of Charles Dicken's novel
about the French Revolution starring Ronald Coleman.
Six Danes (4 Fawns & 2 Harlequins)
appear in one scene at the castle.
They are being fed when peasants break into the yard to steal the Danes' meat.

Thanks to Pam Newhouse for bringing these Danes to our attention!

Cameo/VIDEO
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When Fauntleroy's father dies he is sent to America to live with his grandfather much to his mother's distress.
This black and white version of the classic tale stars Freddie Bartholomew as Fauntleroy.

Thanks to Darcy for bringing this Dane to our attention!

Cameos/OOP

Robert will do anything to get that big account...
and he does.
One scene features a man being run off the property
(not once but twice!)
by nearly a dozen (cropped & a natural ear) Fawn Danes.
Then later the Danes give chase again!

Thanks to Wendy Donati for bringing these Danes to our attention!

Cameo/OOP

Black and white film about a young actress who discovers she is the daughter of a famous actor.
The actor (Adolphe Menjou) has gotten a new pet, a brindle Great Dane.

Thanks to Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee for bringing this Dane to our attention!

Characters/NONE

This black and white comedy features a wealthy matron who has a tendency to take in homeless men, much to the distress of her wacky family.

The family owns two Danes,
one natural ear Fawn and one cropped Brindle.

Thanks to Wendy Donati for bringing these Danes to our attention!

Extras/OOP

In this black and white short,
The Three Stooges appear as vets running an animal hospital.
When the dinner bell is run, two Fawn Danes are seen in the pack of dogs running on their way to dinner.
(One of the Danes is called away momentarily then re-appears, giving the impression there are three Danes.)

A brindle Dane is sitting at the table during the eating sequence only in the videotape not on the laserdisc due to the disc's video cut-off.

Note: This short was found on the videotape THE THREE STOOGES VOLUME III and the laserdisc THE THREE STOOGES VOLUME I.

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This black and white classic introduced Basil Rathbone
into the role of Sherlock Holmes.

The story, based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel,
has Holmes investigating a family curse - a curse that promises death by the jaws of a hound from hell!
Holmes exposes the plot as a hoax created by a villian who is using a Great Dane as the devil dog.

Thanks to Sandy Suarez Boutin for bringing this Dane to our attention!

Cameo/VIDEO
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A tale of forbidden love.
A father returns home with a scraggly orphan boy in tow.
The man's son detests the orphan, but his daughter grows to enjoy the newcomer's company.
This black and white version stars
Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberman.
The Dane appears briefly at the beginning of the film.

Thanks to Jane Farmer for bringing this Dane to our attention!

Character/?

When a millionaire's Great Dane (a Harlequin) mysteriously dies at a dog show,
it begins a string of murders.

An encyclopedia salesman and his young assistant
(a very young Donald O'Connor)
try to solve the mystery.

Several Great Danes
(Harls, Fawns and Brindles) are seen at the dog show in the beginning of this movie.