The Backstory: Why Do We Love Dog Movie Stars?
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Nothing makes us melt like a great story about a kid and a dog. Lassie was a megastar in the 1950s, watching over her 7-year-old boy Timmy...but was her act lifted from the first canine movie star back in 1905?
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| 0:00.0 | We all love dogs, and if we don't, we should. And the people that started the movie industry |
| 0:05.7 | pretty much knew that almost from the beginning. Did you know that arguably the first movie to have |
| 0:11.8 | a canine star, Blair, in rescued by Rover, was released in 1905? I'm Patty Steele. Guess what? It seems Blair's act was stolen decades later by none |
| 0:24.8 | other than Lassie. That's next on the backstory. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Soledad O'Brien, and on my podcast, Murder on the Tooth Path, I'm taking you back to the 1960s. |
| 0:41.1 | Mary Pinchot-Myer was a painter who lived in Georgetown in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:46.4 | Every day, she took a daily walk along a towpath near the E&O Canal. |
| 0:51.4 | So when she was killed in a wealthy neighborhood... |
| 0:54.8 | She had been shot twice in the head and in the back behind the heart. |
| 1:00.6 | The police arrived in a heartbeat. Within 40 minutes, a man named Raymond Crump Jr. was arrested. |
| 1:07.5 | He was found nearby, soaking wet, and he was black. |
| 1:11.6 | Only one woman dared defend him. |
| 1:14.6 | Civil Rights Lawyer, W. Roundtree. |
| 1:17.6 | Join me as we unravel this story with a crazy twist, |
| 1:21.6 | because what most people didn't know is that Mary was connected to a very powerful man. |
| 1:28.3 | I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression. |
| 1:33.9 | John F. Kennedy. |
| 1:36.0 | Listen to murder on the towpath with Soledad O'Brien on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 1:42.0 | or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:46.8 | I'm Israel Gutierrez, and I'm hosting a new podcast, Dub Dynasty, the story of how |
| 1:52.3 | the Golden State Warriors have dominated the NBA for over a decade. |
| 1:56.9 | The Golden State Warriors once again are NBA champions. |
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