Francis the Talking Mule

Francis the Talking Mule was a mule celebrity, featured in seven movie comedies in the 1950s. The character originated in a novel by writer David Stern, and soon Universal Studios bought the rights for a film series, with Stern adapting his own script for the first entry, simply titled Francis.

Sources

Bartel, Pauline. Amazing Animal Actors. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1997. 0878339744

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