ANIMALS AND THE MOVIES

For those who love purrfect acting . . . or dog-gone good movies, who better than our four-paw-pals!

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"The Kentucky Derby" 1922

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

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Maven has added to her page MOVIES: What to Watch When in honor of America's triumvirate of horse racing: The Kintucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes:

THE TRIPLE CROWN OF HORSE RACING

Australia

Melbourne is located in the southeast corner, across from Tazmania.

A primier event in the Charlie Chan Fan calendar is the Melbourne Cup. It's run at the Flemington Racecourse on the first Tuesday of November in Australia. It's the starting off point for CHARLIE CHAN at the Race Track (1936). Interested in finding out more about the actual race?! Then check out: http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/melbournecup/

The Flemington Racecourse

A Map

The Flemington Racecourse

Another View

Flemington Racecourse

An Aerial View

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For starters . . . Maven wants to celebrate animals in the Charlie Chan Series: Maven has her own version of The Chinese Cat. And we mustn't forget . . . .

"Puzzums" who appeared in Maven's favorite Chan movie, Charlie Chan's Secret, for starters, and even helped Charlie solve a case in Charlie Chan's Chance!!

Puzzums was quite the cat-around-town even being photopraphed with that French import, Maurice Chevalier. . . . You'll have to google for Puzzums since the picture just does not want to be uploaded here!

Carol Burnett as Her Charwoman Character

Tim Conway

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Just for fun, here is Tim Conway as the lion Simba with Carol Burnett from her television show (1967 - 1978): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCJTDsrcXEs&fearure=related

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Wonder about that picture of Lon Chaney, Jr., at the top of the page?! That's Chaney with his dog, Moose. Yes, Maven said "Moose." Want more informtion about Chaney and his furry friend? Check out http://gammillustrations.bizland.com/monsterkid1/id1.html

Maven can - and will! - argue that playing an animal in movies is at least a sub-division of make up artists. All those funky-looking gorillas in our beloved old movies were - Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! - played by men in . . . shall we say "hirsute drag"?! One such actor/stunt double was Charles Gemora (at left). You can find more about him and going ape at http://gammillustrations.bizland.com/monsterkid1/id2.html.

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