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- The film was inspired by the 12 Feb 1951 Life Magazine story Fearless Fagan Finds a Home where Private Floyd D. Humeston requested an emergency 14-day furlough from Ft. Ord, California to take care of his pet lion.
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Fearless Fagan: Directed by Stanley Donen. With Janet Leigh, Carleton Carpenter, Keenan Wynn, Richard Anderson. A man brings his devoted pet with him when he is drafted into the army. The pet happens to be an adult lion, named Fearless Fagan. Based on a true story.
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Sep 19, 2013 · The lion was owned by Floyd C. Humeston, who raised Fagan from a cub. In the early 1950s, Humeston was drafted into the Army and couldn't find a suitable caretaker for his pet lion.
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The film was inspired by the 12 Feb 1951 Life Magazine story Fearless Fagan Finds a Home where Private Floyd D. Humeston requested an emergency 14-day furlough from Ft. Ord, California to take care of his pet lion.
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Fearless Fagan is a story based on a real life lion and his best human friend. Carleton Carpenter plays the human friend and while he's not an animal trainer per se, he and Fagan the lion have worked out a marvelous circus act for themselves.
The next year, a film version entitled Fearless Fagan (1952), presented the real life story: Humeston (who in the film becomes Pvt. Hilston) raised Fagan from a cub, trained him to be gentle and eventually got Fagan work in a circus act.
A man brings his devoted pet with him when he is drafted into the army. The pet happens to be an adult lion, named Fearless Fagan. Based on a true story.
