Monday, July 03, 2006

Post Card #2/ "Fearless Fagan"


Floyd Humeston and "Fearless Fagan". Wasn't this a movie lion?
I remember Al Capp's detective "Fearless Fosdick".

Posted by Buckles at 7/03/2006 05:46:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Right, Fagan was one of Mel Koontz's Jackie lions out of World Jungle Compound. The male lead, Carleton Carpenter, bore an uncanny resemblance to a young Dick Van Dyke. Co-starring was Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, and Parley Baer. Jackie got rave reviews for this 1952 comedy.

03 July, 2006 13:03
Anonymous said...

All do respect to the MGM Lion. But That kitten that was used on the Mary Tylor Moore show opening was one of the greatest animal things I remember seeing on TV. I am or was not a great house cat person. Until I raised a 2 day old kitten that was abanded by its mother. It is now three years old and the most beautiful female cat I have ever seen "BETT-Y" is her name as I had bets as to wether she would make it. She is solid black. The first month was the pits, but I learned from it. I now have 11 of these abanded creatures. All spayed and neutered of course.

03 July, 2006 15:38
Anonymous said...

I just finished browsing over at newspaperarchive.com.
There is a really interesting newspaper article about
Charles W."Chang"Reynolds
in the
(Pasendena)Independent Star News October-18-1959.(page 3)
It includes a photo of Chang Reynolds with Bill Woodcock Sr.
and also Anna May the elephant.
According to the article Chang Reynold's favorite elephant was
"Josky" of the Carson&barnes Circus,
shoudler height 8 feet five inches,weight 9500 lbs.
maybe someone cam scan the newspaper article and post it here?

03 July, 2006 16:02
Anonymous said...

It's great to see this photo of Floyd and Fagan.

I was acquainted with Floyd back in the late 1960s when he and my father both worked for the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

If I remember correctly he told me that the lion in the movie Fearless Fagan was his lion Fagan, and not one of Mel Koonzt's cats.

12 April, 2009 14:14

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