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Lassie Come-Home (1940) by Eric Knight, expanding on his short story; Films: Lassie Come Home (1943), adaptation of 1940 novel; Son of Lassie (1945) Courage of Lassie (1946) Hills of Home (1948) The Sun Comes Up (1949) Challenge to Lassie (1950) The Painted Hills (1951) Lassie's Great Adventure (1963). A combination of five television episodes ...
Aug 4, 2015 · One of the first appearances of Lassie was in the 1859 short story, “The Half-Brothers” written by the British writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Gaskell’s story depicted Lassie, a female collie, with “intelligent, apprehensive eyes.”. As the story goes, two half brothers are lost and dying during a snowstorm. The elder brother ties his ...
Dec 27, 2023 · Tommy Rettig as Jeff Miller (1954 to 1957) in the Lassie cast. "Lassie" with actor Tommy Rettig, 1956. Thomas Noel Retting was born on December 10, 1941 in Queens, New York. He appeared in 18 ...
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Jere Brylawski (m. 1932–43, his death) Children. 3. Eric Mowbray Knight (10 April 1897 – 15 January 1943) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly known for his 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home, which introduced the fictional collie Lassie. He took American citizenship in 1942 shortly before his death.
Jul 22, 1994 · Lassie. July 22, 1994. On their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted by a wreck on the highway that has claimed the life of a truck driver. Spotting the trucker's now-abandoned collie on the side of the road, they take pity on the dog and adopt her. As the city family copes with the change to ...
Sep 30, 2011 · His three-year-old son, Lassie Jr., stepped in to pick up the family business. From his retirement in 1954 to his death in 1958, Pal lived with his trainer, Rudd Weatherwax. Years later, Rudd’s ...
Lassie Come-Home is a novel written by Eric Knight about a rough collie's trek over many miles to be reunited with the boy she loves. Knight had introduced the reading public to the canine character of Lassie in a magazine story published on 17 December 1938, in The Saturday Evening Post , a story which he later expanded to the novel and ...
