Hollywood has always insisted that the most prominent stars walk on two legs, sip Champagne, and know which fork to use. But occasionally, the real professionals show up on four legs, disregard the silverware entirely, and outperform everyone with a minimal amount of effort. This weekend, we're looking past the marquee names to acknowledge two of the industry’s finest specialists: a terrier with better timing than most leading men, and a ginger cat adept at stealing scenes—and likely any unattended snacks. The Thin Man films are remembered for their breezy dialogue and the kind of flippant marital chemistry one only hopes to reenact at parties. William Powell and Myrna Loy make detective work look like a series of cocktail hours that get slightly interrupted by murder. But Asta, the wire fox terrier, operated on his own terms: impeccably trained, unflappable, and somehow always in the perfect spot for a reaction shot. Asta—stage name for the far less glamorous “Skippy”—wasn’t jus...