Dear Friends, I have been excited all week about our movie talk this week. It is about my favorite movie in the world -- The Ugly Dachshund! This is also my Momma's favorite live action Disney movie.
The Ugly Dachshund was made in 1966. It stars Suzanne Pleshette and Dean Jones as a young married couple, Fran and Mark. Fran loves dachshunds. She has a beloved dachshund named Danke who has three beautiful puppies: Heidi, Wilhelmina, and Chloe. The puppies are born at the vet clinic and there Danke adopts a Great Dane puppy named Brutus, who was rejected by his own mother.
Danke and the puppies all come home. They settle in -- but as Brutus grows, he thinks he is a dachshund, although he is 150 pounds! The dachshunds are very fun loving and mischievous and Brutus gets blamed for a few of their adventures.
This is a little bit of a romantic comedy and a little bit of a screwball comedy -- but it is SO MUCH BETTER because it has dachshunds (and a Great Dane!). I love this movie and highly recommend it to all my dog loving friends!
Trivia: The movie was based on the 1938 book The Ugly Dachshund by G.B. Stern. My Momma has read the book and said the movie was much better! Brutus the Great Dane also appeared in the Disney movie The Swiss Family Robinson. Suzanne Pleshette's little Yorkshire Terrier, Missy, was jealous of the dog smells she came home with during filming. She had to shower and change every afternoon before leaving the studio! Here is the trailer for the movie. It will make you laugh! Have you seen The Ugly Dachshund? I would love to hear from you in the comments, below. Love, Abby xoxoxo
Dear Friends, I hope you are having a wonderful week! We are having up and down weather here - cold then warm, dry then rainy - so it has been an adventure in dog walking here. I have a new series coming up about Favorite Dog Movies and I would love to hear about YOUR favorite dog movies. I'll share my favorites -- but look for longer posts about them in the future! My all time favorite is The Ugly Dachshund. It is a live action Disney movie starring Suzanne Pleshette, Dean Jones, a Great Dane, and of course, several Dachshunds!
I also love Lady and the Tramp. Momma says it is her favorite childhood animated movie. I say it is actually a love story (sigh!).
And then there is the great Disney classic 101 Dalmatians!
What are YOUR favorite dog movies? I would love to hear about them so I can feature some of your favorites in future weeks. Wishing you a great weekend! Love, Abby xoxoxo
