{"id":2694,"date":"2015-06-11T17:37:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T17:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2015-06-11T17:37:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T17:37:59","slug":"i-toto-is-featured-book-for-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2015\/06\/11\/i-toto-is-featured-book-for-june-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"I, Toto is Featured Book for June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During the expansion of the Ventura Freeway in Los Angeles, Willard Carroll unearthed a leatherbound scrapbook from a site that was once a pet cemetery. To his amazement, its yellowing pages contained the rags-to-riches story of Terry, the female brindle cairn terrier who played Toto in the enduring film\u00a0The Wizard of Oz<\/i>. \u00a0[Incidentally, Terry\u00a0was paid a $125 salary each week during the filming of The Wizard of Oz<\/em>, which was far more than many of the human actors.]<\/p>\n

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Terry’s official studio portrait.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When she died in 1945, Terry’s manager and animal trainer,\u00a0Carl Spitz,\u00a0buried her on his ranch in Studio City, CA. However, the construction of the\u00a0Ventura Freeway\u00a0in 1958 destroyed her grave [which led to Carroll’s discovery]. On June 18, 2011 a permanent memorial for Terry was dedicated at the\u00a0Hollywood Forever Cemetery<\/a>\u00a0in Los Angeles.
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I, Toto\u00a0<\/i>traces the canine star\u2019s tragic beginnings, her exhilarating film career [she appeared in 13 different films!], and her happy retirement in Southern California with Carl Spitz. This book offers the inside scoop on Toto\u2019s signature role, her costars [including Shirley Temple, Spencer Tracy and Joan Crawford], and the making of\u00a0The Wizard of Oz<\/i>. Toto\u2019s lovingly illustrated scrapbook features 150 photographs collected over the dog\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

Willard Carroll\u00a0is an Emmy Award\u2013winning producer, writer, and director. He has written and directed the feature films\u00a0The Runestone<\/i>,\u00a0Tom\u2019s Midnight Garden<\/i>,\u00a0Playing by Heart<\/i>, and\u00a0Marigold<\/i>. He has amassed the world\u2019s largest collection of\u00a0Wizard of Oz<\/i>\u00a0memorabilia, documented in\u00a0100 Years of Oz: A Century of Classic Images from\u00a0<\/i>The\u00a0<\/i>Wizard of Oz\u00a0Collection of Willard Carroll<\/i>. Together with Tom Wilhite, he founded the National Oz Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I, Toto<\/em> is part of the Allan Rogg Collection and is located in Special Collections on the second floor of the Bartle Library. Please come visit us and learn more about this star canine!<\/p>\n

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Terry working with Shirley Temple in the film “Bright Eyes.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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During the expansion of the Ventura Freeway in Los Angeles, Willard Carroll unearthed a leatherbound scrapbook from a site that was once a pet cemetery. To his amazement, its yellowing pages contained the rags-to-riches story of Terry, the female brindle cairn terrier who played Toto in the enduring film\u00a0The Wizard of Oz. \u00a0[Incidentally, Terry\u00a0was paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-featured-book"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}