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Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, and Augustus von Schumacher in Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)

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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

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Featured in

    • "David Walliams' Awfully Good" Awfully Good Movies (TV Episode 2011)

      Mortifying death scene.

Features

    • Pretty Ladies (1925)

      scene of Joan Crawford and Myrna Loy (among others) in a dressing room with other chorines shown under opening credits
    • The Return of Boston Blackie (1927)

      Scenes from the film were shown in a theater, passed off as a film of the fictional dog Won Ton Ton, presumably because the dog resembled "Augustus von Schumacher", the film's animal star, far more than he resembled the animal he was spoofing, "Rin-Tin-Tin"

Referenced in

    • "The Associates" The First Day (TV Episode 1979)

      Poster on dorm wall at Tucker's Harvard during cold open.
    • "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" Michael Keaton/Martin Short/Teri Garr (TV Episode 1992)

      Johnny Carson mentions Teri Garr's earlier movie
    • "Mystery Science Theater 3000" Teenagers from Outer Space (TV Episode 1992)

      Tom: "It's Won Ton Ton, the dog that saved Hollywood."

References

    • Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

      The front of a bank is blown up and falls around Estie Del Ruth.
    • It Happened One Night (1934)

      Madeline Kahn tries to stop a car by showing her leg.
    • A Star Is Born (1937)

      Title Reference. The phrase ''A Bark is Born'' which was the film's original title is heard once in the movie spoken during a line of dialogue.
    • The Wizard of Oz (1939)

      Potchuck proposes a musical where a girl gets caught in a tornado and taken to a strange land.
    • A Star Is Born (1954)

      Title Reference. The phrase ''A Bark is Born'' which was the film's original title is heard once in the movie spoken during a line of dialogue.

Spoofs

    • The Million Dollar Collar (1929)

    • A Star Is Born (1937)

      Title Spoof. The phrase ''A Bark is Born'' which was the film's original title is heard once in the movie spoken during a line of dialogue.
    • A Star Is Born (1954)

      Title Spoof. The phrase ''A Bark is Born'' which was the film's original title is heard once in the movie spoken during a line of dialogue.
    • The Godfather (1972)

      The mobster / hit-man says he has never done a hit on a dog and suggests how about a horse.
    • Blazing Saddles (1974)

      A silent film movie poster in the movie mogul's studio office was for a western starring Philip Hart and it had the word ''blazing'' in the title.

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