Ten Girls Ago is an unfinished American-Canadian film shot in 1962, directed by Harold Daniels starring Buster Keaton, Bert Lahr and Eddie Foy Jr..
The film was to be the starring debut of Dion DiMucci and the return of three Hollywood comic legends in a wide-screen color musical.
[2] It was 98% complete before a series of mishaps shut the production down [3] Bert Lahr plays an old-time comic who experiences a decline in popularity due to the newest talent on TV, a Basset hound dog.
"[6] Jan Miner “They [Keaton, Lahr and Foy Jr.] played three bums who lived in the park, and I ran a cafeteria and used to feed them coffee on the sly.
I remember I started out across a bridge in the park carrying a basset hound puppy, and six months later when the sequence was completed I came off that bridge carrying a full-sized basset hound.
[7] John Darch (the dog trainer) "I'd cover Lahr's face with liver paste.
Everytime the director wanted Pokey to lick Lahr's face on went the liver paste.