This interview originally aired on Fresh Air on Jan. 9, 2012. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend is now out in paperback. If you're a baby boomer, you might remember the old TV Series The Adventures ...

The rise of Rin Tin Tin is a classic only-in-America story, and here's our Rita Braver to tell it: Meet Rin Tin Tin the XXII, spokesdog for the American Humane Association, who recently presided over ...

The very mention of the name Rin Tin Tin evokes in most people the image of a strong, intelligent, heroic German Shepherd dog. The original Rin Tin Tin starred in 30 movies and his direct genetic ...

Born on a battlefield in France during World War I and rescued by a U.S. soldier named Lee Duncan, a terrified German shepherd puppy would become the most famous dog in the world. Named Rin Tin Tin, ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Herbert B. Leonard, the producer behind "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin" and "Route 66," has died at 84 of cancer at his home in Hollywood. Leonard, a film and television ...

As a puppy, Rin Tin Tin was rescued from a bombed-out kennel in France during World War I. He went on to star in 26 films for Warner Bros., and his descendants carried on the tradition in a beloved TV ...

Rin Tin Tin died in 1932. It was reported that he died with his head in the lap of actress Jean Harlow, which isn’t a bad way to go, but it was much less dramatic and simpler, according to Duncan’s ...

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Members of the baby boomer generation might remember the old TV series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, about a German shepherd and a boy named Rusty who lived with a cavalry troop in the American West.