- According to legend, in the very first year of voting for the Oscars, Rinty received more votes than any other actor, but to avoid any embarrassment, the Academy eventually decided to award the first Best Actor to a human thespian, Emil Jannings.
- Warner Bros., saved from bankruptcy by the success of his films, maintained 18 trained stand-ins in order to reduce the strain on its star.
- By 1926 was earning $6000 a week.
- After he became a box-office star, he merited a private chef who prepared his daily lunch of tenderloin steak--which he consumed as an ensemble played classical music to help his digestion.
- On the day he died in 1932, just a month shy of 14, he was no longer strong enough to go to his master's side. Jean Harlow, who lived across the street, came over and cradled his head in her lap as he died. Years before Lee Duncan had given her one of Rinty's first puppies.
- About the first film he made with the dog, trainer Lee Duncan said, "At first the dog did not know he was watching pictures of himself, but when it dawned on him his tail wagged ferociously".
- Trainer Lee Duncan said about his training, "Rin-tin-tin has never been whipped and the wonderful things this dog accomplishes on the screen are accomplished through kindness and instruction--but never with the whip. Even in scenes where [he] is supposed to be beaten, I never permit a whip to touch the dog".
- On 9/15/1918 US Air Corps Cpl. Lee Duncan discovered a half-starved dog and her five puppies--just five days old--in a blasted dugout on a World War I battlefield in France. Duncan tried to take the puppies, whom he named Nanette and Rin Tin Tin, back to the US but only Rinty survived the trip.
- He got his own radio show, "The Wonder Dog," in 1930, doing his own sound effects
- A dark-coated German Shepherd dog, he made his first film in 1923 and was the world's biggest box-office draw by 1926.
- Father of Rin Tin Tin Jr.. Grandfather of Rin Tin Tin III. Great-great-great-grandfather of Prince the Dog.
- French names of the puppets: "Nénette" and "Rintintin". Puppets possibly created by painter Francisque Poulbot in 1913.
- Mentioned in Pardon Us (1931).
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