Lassie and The New Yorker have a long history. In 1948, at the height of the HUAC era, Lillian Ross wrote about Lassie’s role as Hollywood’s most bankable star, untroubled by political affiliation or ...

In the early 1950s, when television sent Hollywood into the doldrums and studios were thinning their contract lists, some stars began appearing in their own TV series. Among them: Lucille Ball, ...

It’s a banner year for the humble collie that lives to rescue small children and foolhardy adults from forest fires, falling buildings and other dangers. Lassie is 50. The world’s favorite dog, ...

Based upon a 1938 short story, which was later adapted into a full-length novel, by English-American author Eric Knight, "Lassie" became the subject of several movies and a popular television series ...

Dog and movie lovers, take note: Lassie has come home. Writer-director Charles Sturridge’s “Lassie” revives a well-worn, sometimes grand tradition begun in 1938, when Eric Knight’s first Lassie story ...