That would bé Buster's dog, Buster and his third wife Eleanor bred St Bernard's very successfully. In all the Beethoven movies it is Eleanor Keaton's dogs that were used. I wonder if this was the St Bernard that Buster's 2nd wife (Mae (the nurse) Scriven's took when she left Buster? I think Johnny and Buster were friends and both spent too much time in Keaton's Kennel at MGM. The dog would have been called Elmer.
What a marvelous picture! I wondered why many of his characters were called Elmer, then when I read his auto biography--My Wonderful World of Slapstick, which is a great book--I found out why.
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That would bé Buster's dog, Buster and his third wife Eleanor bred St Bernard's very successfully. In all the Beethoven movies it is Eleanor Keaton's dogs that were used. I wonder if this was the St Bernard that Buster's 2nd wife (Mae (the nurse) Scriven's took when she left Buster? I think Johnny and Buster were friends and both spent too much time in Keaton's Kennel at MGM. The dog would have been called Elmer.
What a marvelous picture! I wondered why many of his characters were called Elmer, then when I read his auto biography--My Wonderful World of Slapstick, which is a great book--I found out why.
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