1950 to 1959

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Movie:
THE MILKMAN
Year: 1950
Character: Pete

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Roger Bradley isn't permitted to work
for his dad's big milk company
because when stressed he quacks like a duck.
So he gets a job with his father's arch-rival
milk company & promptly falls in love with the boss' daughter who has a Fawn Great Dane.

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


Movie:
FANCY PANTS
Year: 1950
Character: unnamed

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Bob Hope is an actor impersonating
a butler in the old West
who is mistaken as an Earle.
A fox hunt is arranged using the local dogs.

A Merle Great Dane is seen
in the pack as it chases the villain up a tree.

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


Movie:
LET'S DANCE
Year: 1950
Characters: Hamlet

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Betty Hutton is a vaudeville star
trying to gain custody of her daughter from her
great grand mother who disapproves of vaudeville.

A fawn Great Dane lives with grandma
and is involved in a cute escape scene
early in the film.
Fred Astaire also stars.

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


Movie:
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Year: 1951
Characters: Hamlet

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Black and white
Hitchcock classic
about two men who meet
on a train and the strange relationship that grows.

A Fawn Great Dane lives with the mother
of one of the men (Robert Walker).

Thanks to Cara Mulqueen-Williamson for bringing this Dane to our attention!


Movie:
YOU NEVER CAN TELL
Year: 1951
Dane: unknown

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A German Shepherd is left
6-million dollars from his
eccentric late master.
The dog is poisoned and goes to heaven
but he's given his wish to be sent back
as a human named Rex (Dick Powell)
so that he can catch his killer and
clear the name of his master's secretary.

About halfway through the film,
Rex frees the dogs in a dogcatcher's wagon.
A Fawn Great Dane is among
the dogs freed.

Thanks to Gene Dees for bringing this Dane to our attention!


Movie:
AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD
Year: 1952
Character: unnamed

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A man (Glenn Ford) is summoned by his brother to come to Trinidad.
When he arrives, he finds his brother dead.
The man is soon embroiled in intrigue involving
his dead brother's wife (Rita Hayworth).

A Great Dane appears briefly as a guard of an estate owned by a mysterious man who may just be the murderer.

Thanks to Duane Morgan for bringing this Dane to our attention!


Movie:
BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY
Year: 1953
Character: Wapi

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Based on a story by James Oliver Curwood,
about a Great Dane sled dog.
This version starred Rock Hudson.
Originally filmed in 1919.


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


Movie:
HERE COME
THE GIRLS
Year: 1953
Character: Rasputin

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A leading lady tricks a chorus boy
(Bob Hope) into believing she is in love with him
in a plot to help catch a killer.

The leading lady's pet, seen in several scenes, is a Merle Great Dane.


Movie:
KING RICHARD
& THE CRUSADERS
Year: 1954
Character:
Rothwell

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Based on Sir Walter Scott's THE TALIMAN,
the story follows intrigue in King Richard's court.

In an early scene, a Fawn Great Dane
wearing neck armor with artificial 'natural' ears
jumps up on his master's shoulders as comments
are made about loyalty of men versus dogs.



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


Movie: ANIMAL FARM
Year: 1954
Characters:
not given

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This British animated feature is based upon
George Orwell's political satire of
the Russian Revolution.
It tells of a group of farm animals
who revolt against the human farmers.
The animals set up their own farm,
but when the pigs take the position of leadership,
the animals are not sure they are better off.

A pack of loyal dogs which resemble
Black & Blue Great Danes (as adults)
are under the rule of the tyrant hog, Napeoleon.


Movie:
HOLLYWOOD OR BUST
Year: 1956
Character:
Mr. Bascomb

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Arguably the best of the Dean Martin
& Jerry Lewis film comedies, as well as their last.

Using a fake raffle ticket, Steve (Martin)
stakes a claim to Malcolm's (Lewis) prize
- a new car.
To keep from exposing the scam,
Steve agrees to drive to Hollywood so Malcolm can meet his dream star, Anita Ekberg.

Malcolm brings along his Fawn Great Dane.
While on the trip, Mr. Bascomb sings,
drives the car and more.

This may be the best movie ever for Dane lovers.

A portion of the trailer for this film
can be seen in the movie, Grease,
during the drive in scene.
This was pointed out by Tracey Spillman.


Movie:
LAUTA MANCIA
 Year: 1956
Character:
Big Jeeter

Character/NONE

A black & White movie
about a Great Dane that belongs to
a beautiful woman (Annamaria Frances).
When the woman has a child, the Dane feels neglected
and runs off, making friends with a young boy (Silvano Orlando).
The woman finds the Dane and Jeeter
must decide between his old home and his new young friend.

This Italian feature, produced in 1956,
was released in the U.S. in 1961 as
BIG JEETER by Citation Films and as
BIG DOG LOST in Canada.



TV Series:
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
Year: 1957
Character:
Victor

Character/NONE

Episode title: "It's A Dog's Life"
Airdate: December 9, 1957

This TV series followed the adventures
of three New York women looking for rich husbands.
In this episode, one of the girls finds
a Fawn Great Dane belonging to a millionaire.
She brings the dog home hoping the millionaire will follow.

NOTE: This series was based on the
popular stage play, which later became
a starring vehicle for Marilyn Monroe.
In this series, Barbara Eden
played the Marilyn character, Loco Jones.

Thanks to Claire Brandt for bringing this Dane to our attention!


Movie:
SCREAMING MIMI
Year: 1958
Character: Devil

Character/NONE



UNDER CONSTRUCTION.


Cartoon:
DOG TALES
Year: 1958
Character:
Victor Barky

Character/NONE



This Warner Brothers cartoon features a series of gags about dogs.

It includes a Fawn Great Dane giving an impression of pianist Victor Borge,
who was commonly referred to as
the "Great Dane".


Movie:
 TEENAGE CAVE MAN
 Year: 1958
Characters: unnamed

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A black and white cult favorite about a
young caveman (Robert Vaughn) making a
shocking discovery.

At one point, a pack of three Fawn Great Danes
running with a couple Irish Wolfhounds attack the cave dwellers.



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



Movie:
 THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
Year: 1959
Character: not given

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This color Hammer horror features
Peter Cushing as 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 'masked' brindle Great Dane
as the devil dog.

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