It’s been said that when the talkies came along, the only Hollywood star who wasn’t worried about how his voice would sound was Rin Tin Tin. In celebration of Rinty and those other truly indestructible stars of the cinema—the four-legged kind—writer and critic Stephen M. Silverman, with the help of his chocolate Lab, Coco, offers this lighthearted photographic treat. Combining Tinseltown glamour and canine appeal from Hollywood’s earliest days to its latest releases, Movie Mutts is a veritable dog walk of fame. Here are Toto with Judy Garland; Scraps with Charlie Chaplin in A Dog’s Life; Lassie shoulder to shoulder with that other screen queen, Elizabeth Taylor; even the beleaguered border terrier in There’s Something About Mary.
