Wednesday, November 16, 2011

What kind of dog was Toto on the Wizard of OZ ?

This is just an off the wall office question so I thought I should include everyone here! -k- thanks|||toto was a Cairn Terrier, if you mean in the movie version.





In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, Toto was played by a black Cairn Terrier whose real name was Terry. Terry was paid a $125.00 salary each week, which was far more than many of the human actors (the Singer Midgets only received $50.00 a week). Also, Terry was stepped on by one of the witch's guards, and a double had to be used because her foot was broken. The popularity of the movie actually changed her name to Toto, because that was the role she was most remembered for. However, The Wizard of Oz wasn't the only film that Terry played a role. She actually starred in 13 films. She died at age 10.





In the book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum did not specifically state Toto's breed, but describes him as "a little black dog, with long, silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose". However, from the illustrations in the first book many have concluded that Toto is a Cairn Terrier while others believe the dog is a Yorkshire Terrier as this breed was very popular at the time. In subsequent books Toto becomes a Boston Terrier for reasons that are never explained.|||Cairn Terrier|||a cairn terrier|||a little grey one named toto|||A rat dog.|||Cairn Terrier|||actually he was a wirehaired terrier|||Chihuahua

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