Asta, the famous movie dog from The Thin Man , was a Wire Fox Terrier.

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  • The canine actor best known as Asta was a dog named Skippy, a Wire Fox Terrier who appeared in many 1930s films.
  • In the Thin Man movies, Asta is explicitly portrayed as a Wire Fox Terrier, which helped make the breed hugely popular with families at the time.
  • In Dashiell Hammett’s original The Thin Man novel, Asta was actually written as a female Schnauzer, but the movie version cemented Asta in pop culture as a Wire Fox Terrier.

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