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JCM's Animal Talent

 
Providing Animals for the Entertainment Industry

JCM's Animal Talent is a registered member of Mandy Film and TV Production Directory. A nationally recognized company.

JCM's Animal Talent is USDA Licensed

 
 
JCM's Animal Talent Promotional Video

 
 
2016

Rossy
“Laurell’s Bottle Rocket, CD, CGC”
Champion Pointed

One of our current working canine actors, and is specifically trained for film and television work.
He has an outstanding repertoire of notably funny routines. He is also a seasoned Thespian.

 
 
 
At the studio using using the "green screen." Rossy taking a break in-between scenes.
This is his first of a series of national TV commercials. 2017



 
 
 
 
 
Whiplash
"Fern Hill Pain in the Neck"

 
 
 
 
Filmed May 27, 2021 / Aired August 16, 2021

 
 
 
 
Whiplash the "Edderkoppen"
Our Jack Russell canine actor.

Whiplash sporting his Mongolian look.

 
 
 
 
Golden Retrievers, and Jack Russell, Whiplash, in their debut commercial.

 
 
 
“Annie”

April 9, 2011, 
After auditioning for the Live Stage Production of "Annie," River Regions Performing Arts Guild 
awarded Glimpy with the heartwarming role of Annie's beloved dog, Sandy.
Competition was tough, but genuine talent and ability shinned through.
Glimpy is truly living up to his AKC registered name, "Copperfield Claim to Fame."


 
Another "ANNIE" for Glimpy

Rivertown Performing Arts production of "Annie" featured Glimpy in the role of Sandy, Annie's faithful companion.
Performances were held in Kenner, La. from December 6 thru December 22, 2013.
As usual, Glimpy performed flawlessly.

 
 
 
 
 
 
The dog, Glimpy, really made the show.
26 November 2012 | Review by J Drake

The Golden Retriever, Glimpy, who played the character "Walt" in the "Walkaway Walkie" episode was absolutely priceless. How sweet and adorable, and so well trained. My daughter really loves the show. When she saw the dog she came and got me saying, "look daddy, puppy." I have always noticed animals on TV and in movies look staged and not natural. The dog in this show looked so happy, like he was really enjoying what he was doing. We both sat there and laughed. Who ever trained him must be extremely talented. I would love to know where they found this guy. I think Imagination Movers is a wholesome show with good family values. I hope they stick around for a long time.


 
 
 
Montana upstaging Joanna Kerns in "Growing Pains" The Return of the Seavers 2004
Montana Featured on the cover of Legacy Magazine, 1998
Annie - Live Stage
The "Morgus the Magnificent" Show featuring Barkley-1987
 
 

Manino's dogs have appeared in hundreds of TV commercials and movies, both nationally and internationally. Some notable appearances include the stage play Annie, TV appearances on Morgus the Magnificent, the movies Delta Heat (with Lance Hendrickson), Blue Bayou (with Alfri Woodard and Roy Thinnes), and many commercials, including Scope Mouthwash, Colligan Water, Southern Comfort, Mississippi and Louisiana Power and Light, Dial-A-Teacher, Peoples' Bank of Jackson, and Little Miss Debbie Snack Cakes, just to name a few.

   Ms. Manino has also worked for the Walt Disney and Touchstone Studios as their official Animal Wrangler and is
   listed in the La. Film Commission directory. Many of her students' dogs have also appeared in TV commercials,
   newspaper advertisements, and fashion shows.

Ms. Manino has been featured in newspaper articles and appeared on many TV shows, some of which are:

 
  • The Morning Show with Eric Paulson, WWL TV; Barkley - 1986
  • Morgus the Magnificent Show - Barkley - 1987
  • Popeye and Pals Show; - Barkley - 1988
  • Breakfast Edition with Bill Stanley, WVUE TV; Barkley - 1987
  • Times Picayune - Jan. 31 and July 12, 1987; Oct. 20, 1988; Feb. 4, 1996, March 7, 1997;
  • Dog Journal - April and July, 1988
  • Times Picayune, TV Focus - October-November 1988;
  • The Angela Hill Show, WWL TV; JCM's Dog Training - Barkley - 1987
  • Hollywild - 1997; - Noopy - Promotional video for Animal Star Theme Park, California;
  • Primary Colors with John Travolta - Noopy & Munch - 1997;
  • Legacy Publication - Front Cover - Montana - 1998;
  • Annie, the Stage Play at Tulane University (with Montana, Barkley's grandson)
  • Stargate SG-1 (Amanda Tapping with Montana) - 2002
  • Pet Star Animal Planet (national competition winner) - Montana - season 1, episode 13 - 2003
  • Microsoft Convention (with Montana), 2002
  • Growing Pains-The return of the Seavers ABC Movie of the week - Montana (Original Cast) - 2004 
  • Infidelity with Kim Delaney - Montana - 2004
  • Times Picayune Feature Story - 2004
  • Annie - (Jefferson Performing Arts Society) - Montana - October thru December 2006
  • Imagination Movers - (Disney children's hit TV sit com) - Glimpy - August 17, 2010
  • WGSO 990AM Radio "RRRuffly Speaking" - In studio guest speaker - May 5, 2011
  • WWL Radio - guest speaker and Glimpy - several additional interviews starting on May 1, 2012
  • Annie - Glimpy (Rivertown Performing Arts) December 6 thru December 22 - 2013
  • Louisiana Film and Video conference - Glimpy - Panel member. Gave presentation on animals in the entertainment industry to audience of aspiring film makers, directors, producers, and actors. August 5, 2014
  • Mandeville Elementary School - Rossy - Demonstrated for over 600 school children on how to be well mannered, obedient, and what it entails to be a Service Dog - November 4, 2015
  • Rossy on WWL TV Channel 4 News - April 25, 2016. "Talented Dog Aiming For Hollywood South Fame."
  • Rossy & Whiplash magazine photo shoot - July 27, 2016 - Cerberus LLC Productions.
  • WVUE Channel 8 News Interviewed JCM's very own Jean Manino on the ADA rights of Service Dogs entering public shops and buildings. July 31, 2016.
  • Rossy in green screen talking dog national law firm commercials. "Group Matrix" production company. April 21, 2017.
  • Nola.Com / Times Picayune article on JCM's Animal Talent - Published November 30,2017
  • Riverbend - movie - Whiplash - Sundance Film Festival award film - June 2 and 3, 2018
  • Our Lady of the Lake Hospital - Commercial - Rossy - June 21, 2018.
  • Invited guest speaker at Kehoe France School, Covington, La. Asked to give presentation on the topic of dogs and Obedience training. Rossy and Whippy gave demonstrations. February 9, 2019. 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM.
  • Invited guest speaker at Kehoe France School, Covington, La. Asked to give presentation on the topic of dogs and Obedience training. Rossy and Whippy gave demonstrations. February 15, 2020. 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM.
  • Credit Human Mortgage Lending - TEMPT FILMS - aired in San Antonio - Commercial - Whiplash - May 27, 2021.

John Travolta on set with Noopy in Primary Colors - 1997
Montana with Amanda Tapping Stargate sg-1
 
 

Summer Lyric's Annie: Total Sugar Shock - 2001

When it made its initial success in 1976, Annie, a musical based on Harold Gray's comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, was presented as a three-dimensional cartoon. The original Annie, Andrea McArdle, was even dressed like the cartoon character and sported the same Sienna red Afro wig. This is the approach that director James Miller took with young Jennifer Marks in Summer Lyric Theatre's recent production of the musical that boasts a book by Thomas Meehan, with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin staged at Tulane's Dixon Hall.

Ms. Marks, a middle-of-the-line 11 year old, also played Annie with her own hair, this time tied up in twin side ponytails, like Pippi Longstocking - hair that did not read as red from the middle of the auditorium, even with red light shining on it. This was a real flesh and blood girl, not a cartoon figure and, as such, her desire to find her real parents and get out of the horrible orphanage presided over by the drunk and abusive Miss Hannigan (a fabulous Wanda Rouzan) made the already saccharine-sweet tale even more treacly.

As is par for the course with Summer Lyric musical productions, the orchestra, conducted with her usual school marm strictness by Pamela Legendre, was much too large and bright for the auditorium, which meant that sound levels for body mikes had to be jiggered up. Unfortunately, on opening night, only Wanda Rouzan's mike seemed to be defective, causing her diction to be muddy; of course, as a noted jazz singer Ms. Rouzan has a tendency to embellish and elide lyrics, which also added to her songs' indistinctness, especially on "Little Girls." No such trouble occurred with any of the other singers. Indeed, young Ms. Marks possessed the necessary big, brassy belter's voice and her diction was of professional quality; to say nothing of having the acting chops to melt the full house and reduce it to Silly Putty - even if her Sandy was an immaculately groomed Golden Retriever (named Montana and supplied by Jean Manino of JCM's Obedience School). He sat when he was supposed to, did his mandatory solo cross from stage right to stage left and otherwise upstaged the humans provoking oohs and aahs. It was enough to make a W. C. Fields type gag - or go into total sugar shock!


 
 
 
 
NOLA.Com - Times Picayune Story on Animals in Entertainment
11-30-2017

Animal actor
Animal actor "Rossy" takes a break while on set. The dog is among the canine thespians trained by Covington's Jean Manino. (JCM's Dog Training photo)()

By Kara Martinez Bachman

kara@KaraMartinezBachman.com

It always looked so realistic when Lassie communicated perfectly with little Timmy, Benji ran away with a string of sausages, or Old Yeller ... well ... fell upon some bad luck. What seems effortless onscreen, however, involves not only smart animals, but devoted trainers who know how to prepare animal actors for their moments in the spotlight. Jean Manino is among those who make such movie and stage magic seem effortless. Whether she's providing a cat to just ... do whatever cats do ... or a dog to accomplish feats as simple as sitting down or as complex as throwing trash into a bin, she's got her pulse on what entertainment and advertising professionals are looking for in a trained animal actor.

Manino -- who spent much of her trainer career in Meraux before moving to Covington following Hurricane Katrina -- has had her dog thespians featured in many commercials and movies.

She's worked with Walt Disney and Touchstone as an official "Animal Wrangler" and her four-footed actors have shown up over the years in everything from Hollywood films such as "Primary Colors" (starring John Travolta); to TV shows such as "The Imagination Movers" and "Morgus the Magnificent"; to nationwide commercials for companies including Southern Comfort, Scotch Tape, Labatt Beer, Blue Cross, and too many more to count.

In 2003, Manino was also owner and trainer of a national competition winner on the Animal Planet Network show, "Pet Star." It all started back in the late 1970s, when kind of on a lark, Manino and a friend took a class in the basics of dog training. Much to her surprise, she was instantly hooked.

"To be able to communicate and see how the dog's mind worked, it was just natural for me," she said. Film and TV didn't start out as a goal. In fact, even today, work with filmmakers and theaters is only a part of her business, which also includes obedience classes held on the North Shore as well as in Metairie and on the Westbank; training for service and therapy animals; and pet boarding.

Training animal stars just kinda fell into Manino's lap. There happened to be an audition for the stage musical "Annie," where a dog was being sought to portray Little Orphan Annie's sidekick, "Sandy."

Although Manino admitted she couldn't even recall which theater it was at, "out of at least a hundred people, we got picked." "There were a lot of people in the audience who did film and television," she explained, "so the phone started ringing."

One reason she couldn't recall which theater was first is because ... get this ... her dogs have been cast in local Annie productions a whopping 15 times (a few venues she mentioned were Tulane University, Rivertown in Kenner, and the Jefferson Performing Arts Society).

Manino said this takes tons of disciplined work behind the scenes, day in and day out. It might take just a few days to get a dog up to speed on a specific trick needed for a shoot, but what sets a true "canine actor" apart is the ability to go with the flow. To be versatile.

She said once on a shoot for Louisiana's own "The Imagination Movers," she'd been asked to train a dog to "put his paw on a walkie-talkie and hold it there." They worked on the trick for three days, but on set, it was decided something else was wanted. She said this is quite common, and is the biggest challenge of the business.

"But," she explained, "you absolutely expect things to not be the same, but you have to have a dog versatile enough to do this." "Because the dogs are trained to such a degree, we can improvise on the spot." She said there's zero time to waste while on set. There's little to no rehearsal time allowed. "They set up the shot," she said, "tell the actors what they need to do, then the dog has to do what he needs to do." Manino explained that of course, she leads the animal throughout a shoot. The actor has nothing to do with it. "It looks like he's responding to that person [the actor], but he's actually responding to me, and following hand signals."

She said this is true both for film and for stage. The only differences with stage work is that she's of course standing further away -- in the wings -- and that "on a live stage, you don't get a second chance."

As anyone who has watched late night shows and seen segments featuring live animal experts such as Jack Hanna or Joan Embery can attest, sometimes animals can do the unexpected. At times that unexpected is funny, and at other times, it's a real mess.

Manino said once when shooting a Southern Comfort commercial, a muscular, "well-built" male actor had to carry one of her miniature ponies on his back. Without warning, at that very moment, the animal released its bladder.

Yikes.

Such incidents are uncontrollable and rare, however, and Manino said the reason her animals are cast regularly is because most who try to get their pets "in the movies" don't understand that it's not a beauty contest. She said others bring dogs to auditions dressed in costumes.

"We're not saying 'hey, look how cute my dog is' ... we're saying, 'hey, look what we can do.'"

She said things have slowed a bit. Before Katrina, she said, "we were in something every week." She and her dogs, though, are still doing tricks and turning heads.

She and Rossy just recently did a law firm commercial in front of a chromakey green screen. Although many of Manino's dogs are golden retrievers such as Rossy, she also trains Jack Russell Terriers.

"The little terrier is highly prized right now," she said.

Dog actor "Whiplash" takes a ride through St. Tammany Parish. One of his talents is to do a doggie "breakdance." (JCM's Dog Training photo)

One of her Jack Russell Terriers, "Whiplash," recently had a "speaking part" in a film and "he does a breakdance that is hysterical." Manino wouldn't disclose the film's title.

"It's not out yet, so I can't mention it yet," she said. Even though her animals do "tricks," she contends there's no trick to what she does. It's all about devotion to her animals, and to guiding them with repetition and understanding.

"There's no playtime," she said, of her professional, four-legged thespians. "There's no gimmicks." "We just have a few dogs that are exquisitely trained," she said.

Entertainment contributor Kara Martinez Bachman may be reached at kara@KaraMartinezBachman.com or via Facebook.com/BachmanWrites. She welcomes your news tips and story ideas.


 

 

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