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Subject:
Animal Cameos
From:
Jenni Olson <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 29 Sep 1996 19:59:14 -0400
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Less a cameo than a small part: Asta in The Thin Man series.  Also kind of a

big part would be George the dog in Bringing Up Baby.

 

Best example: the kitten that Eleanor Parker finds in the exercise yard in

Caged.  All the inmates take care of it and watch it drink milk from a tin.

 It finally gets killed in the cellblock riot (also see the exact same plot

element in Wendy O. Williams' Reform School Girls).

 

INTERESTING SUB-CATEGORY:

Homophobic stereotypes accomplished via animal cameos.

 

Emery's french poodle in the opening sequence of The Boys in the Band.

 

Gay man with a pink poodle who comes across a naked policeman chained to a

tree (Tim McIntyre) in The Choirboys (see p90 of the Celluloid Closet for a

photo).

 

All the best,

 

Jenni Olson

Producer, PopcornQ

 

The Ultimate Online Home for the Queer Moving Image is available now at

http://www.popcornq.com

 

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