Dog Mommies

Dog mommy Myrna Loy in Shadow of The Thin Man (1941)

This a follow-up to my 2019 article "Mothers Have Gone to The Dogs."

Here is a glimpse of the dog mommy in 1930s films.

You can see from the following images that the dog mommy was a stock character in films during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. 

The Virtuous Sin (1930)

Hell Divers (1931)

Just a Gigolo (1931)

The Good Bad Girl (1931)

Rockabye (1932)

The Impatient Maiden (1932)

 

Hello Sister (1933)

Bombshell (1933)

Employees' Entrance (1933)

Ex-Lady (1933)

The Barbarian (1933)

Ever in My Heart (1933) 

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

Lady Killer (1933)

Kept Husband (1933)

Ladies They Talk About (1933)

Music in the Air (1934)

 

I Am a Thief (1934)

The Thin Man (1934)

Bad Boy (1935)

Lady of Secrets (1936)

Born to Dance (1936)

Modern Times (1936)

Mad Holiday (1936)

Big Brown Eyes (1936)

Love Before Breakfast (1936)

Shall We Dance (1937)

The Awful Truth (1937) 

Tovarich (1937)

Bank Holiday (1938)

Hold That Kiss (1938)

The Women (1939)

Battement de coeur (1940)

Primrose Path (1940)

 

The Great McGinty (1940)

It Started with Eve (1941)

All Through the Night (1942)

Wings and the Woman (1942)

Girl Trouble (1942)

Fanny by Gaslight (1944)

The Sky's the Limit (1943)

Since You Went Away (1944)

Paris Underground (1945)

Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Nobody Lives Forever (1946)

The Flame (1947) 

Variety Lights (1950)

Too Young to Kiss (1951)

Fast and Loose (1954) 

A Touch of the Sun (1956)

The Killing (1956)

The Opposite Sex (1956)

Archimede Le Clochard (1959)

Wrong Number (1959)

Five Golden Hours (1961)

First Love (1978)

The Bennett sisters were lifelong dog mommies in Hollywood.

Constance Bennett

Joan Bennett