page_title: Toto (Oz)
section_title: Terry and the MGM film
hierarchical_section_title: Toto (Oz) / Films / Terry and the MGM film
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of American entertainer, Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale and American canine performer, Terry as Toto promoting the Sunday April 18, 1971 NBC television broadcast of the 1939 MGM feature film The Wizard of Oz.
context_page_description: Toto is a fictional dog in L. Frank Baum's Oz series of children's books, and works derived from them. His name is pronounced with a long "O", a homophone of "toe toe". He was originally a small terrier drawn by W. W. Denslow for the first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He reappears in numerous adaptations, such as The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz and Return to Oz.
context_section_description: In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, Toto was played by a female brindle Cairn Terrier named Terry. She was paid a $125 salary each week, which was more than some of the human actors (the Singer Midgets who played the Munchkins reportedly received $50 to $100 a week).
  During production, Terry's foot was broken when one of the Winkie guards accidentally stepped on it. A second dog had to be used while she healed. Due to the popularity of the movie, and because that role was the one she was most remembered for, her owner and trainer changed her official name to Toto. She actually appeared in 13 films. She died at age 11. Willard Carroll wrote her "autobiography," I, Toto (2001).
  When Terry died in 1945, Carl Spitz buried her on his ranch in Studio City, California. However, the construction of the Ventura Freeway in 1958 destroyed her grave. On June 18, 2011, a permanent memorial for her was dedicated at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
caption: Terry as Toto with Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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