Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 30, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Dogs, 1950s, 1980s
Dominating the staircase is a big painting of Lady Violet Munnings riding a grey hunter, superbly assured against a finely painted sky and moorland setting. Lady Violet’s Pekingese, Black Knight, who was made a Freeman of the City of London (such are the benefits of dining with the influential), wrote a memoir that he called Diary of a Freeman. Actually I think he dictated it to Lady Violet, who was his devoted slave in all things. After he died she had him stuffed, and continued to carry him to the village on errands. He now reposes on a favourite cushion in a glass case beneath Munnings’s portrait of him, in a cubby hole off the main staircase. He remains extremely popular with regular visitors.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 24, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Art, Books, Dogs, Twentieth Century
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 24, 2018 -
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Category: Surrealism, Cartoons, Dogs, 1930s
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 22, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Shoes, Dogs, 1990s
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 04, 2018 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Movies, Dogs, 1940s
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 16, 2018 -
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Category: Dogs, 1990s, Weddings
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 09, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Patents, Dogs
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 13, 2017 -
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Category: Government, Dogs, 1950s, 1960s
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 03, 2017 -
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Category: Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, Dogs
Dick Vosburgh of The Independent commented, "Critics found it hard to accept that it had taken six writers to fashion the wafer-thin tale of a jazz flautist whose marriage to a French film star is threatened by the jealous tricks of Monsieur Cognac, her neurotic, alcoholic French poodle."[5] In his obituary for Tony Curtis in 2010, Dave Kehr dismissed the film as "disastrous," noting that Curtis was rebuilding his reputation after an earlier affair with Kaufmann, his co-star in Wild and Wonderful, and subsequent divorce from Janet Leigh.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 03, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Dogs, 1960s
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