Plummer Falls for Four-Legged Bitch in ’Tulip’ Film: Interview

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She was a wayward beauty with huge, soulful eyes, and the curmudgeon fell deeply in love with her. Now the story of a famously unruly German shepherd and her obsessive owner comes to the big screen, thanks to two acclaimed Philadelphia hermits.

Paul Fierlinger, 74, who made his first film in 1958, teamed with his wife, Sandra, 56, to animate “My Dog Tulip,” based on the memoir by British author J.R. Ackerley.