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Ebook Download Whats New, Pussycat? WHATS NEW, PUSSYCAT? PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Alexandra Potter | 320 pages | 01 Jun 2014 | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | 9780340919606 | English | London, United Kingdom Carole Baskin's "What's New Pussycat" 'DWTS' Performance Was Filled With Cat References As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life Get some streaming picks. Title: What's New Pussycat His psychoanalyst Dr. Fassbender can't help him either since he's busy courting one of his patients who in turn longs for Michael. A catastrophe appears on the horizon as all the characters check into the Chateau Chantelle hotel for the weekend not knowing of each other's presence. Written by Robert Zeithammel. Some have "analyzed" this movie with the heavy, combat-boot tone of the cerebral and moral second-millennium spirit. They say it belongs to the past, the bad bad bad 60s, full of irresponsibility and partying, sexual license and depravity. Well I say HA! Forget all those mostly young! It is colorful, full of joy and beautiful people, unpretentious and charming. And in the end, the guy gets the girl and they get married. As a young boomer, watching this is like slipping into Hush Puppies. You may say what you want about or against the "guilty" innocence of that era, but it sure was comfortable! I miss those times. And a note for the moderns: we were not that innocent, we knew that some of this was dangerous ground Looking for some great streaming picks? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. Fassbinder's Child uncredited Rosemary Blake Miss Pringle uncredited Richard Burton Man in Strip Club uncredited Georges Douking Concierge at Renee's Apartment uncredited Colin Drake Durell - Mental Patient uncredited Louis Falavigna Jean uncredited Gordon Felio Mayor's Secretary uncredited Louise Lasser Man in Library uncredited Edouard F. Nash uncredited Nadine Papin Fassbinder's Child uncredited Gilbert Servien Barman uncredited Norbert Terry Kelly uncredited Pascal Wolf Fassbinder's Child uncredited Jean- Pierre Zola Sivel Hugh Strain Edit page. In Treatment. In the first episode, she danced to "Eye of the Tiger" while wearing a neon, tiger-striped dress. During the commercial break, the family of her missing husband, Don Lewis, ran an ad asking for information about his disappearance. The only thing that would make it more blatant is if she rode out onto the stage on an actual tiger. What's New Pussycat () - IMDb He criticised the script, the directing and the acting and described the film as "the most outrageously cluttered and campy, noisy and neurotic display of what is evidently intended as way-out slapstick". He praised the scenery and title song. This is one movie that is not what it seems at first glance. It has been attacked for tastelessness, and yet I have never seen a more tasteful sex comedy. Slightly in advance of the film's release, as was the custom of the era, a paperback novelization of the film was published by Dell Books. The author was renowned crime and western novelist Marvin H. Albert , who also made something of a cottage industry out of movie tie-ins. A fecund writer, he seems also to have been the most prolific American screenplay novelizer of the late '50s through mid '60s, and, during that time, the preeminent specialist at light comedy. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see What's New Pussycat? Theatrical release poster by Frank Frazetta. Clive Donner. Famartists Productions S. Famous Artists Productions. Release date. Running time. Peter Sellers as Dr. The Numbers. Retrieved January 22, Entertainment Weekly. Sign In. Edit What's New Pussycat Fritz Fassbender Peter O'Toole Carole Werner Capucine Liz Bien Woody Allen Victor Shakapopulis Ursula Andress Rita Eddra Gale Marcel as Jean Paredes Jacques Balutin Etienne Jess Hahn Werner Howard Vernon Doctor Michel Subor Philippe Sabine Sun Nurse Nicole Karen Tempest Jacqueline Fogt Charlotte Daniel Emilfork Gas Station Man Tanya Lopert As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life Get some streaming picks. Title: What's New Pussycat His psychoanalyst Dr. Fassbender can't help him either since he's busy courting one of his patients who in turn longs for Michael. A catastrophe appears on the horizon as all the characters check into the Chateau Chantelle hotel for the weekend not knowing of each other's presence. Written by Robert Zeithammel. Some have "analyzed" this movie with the heavy, combat-boot tone of the cerebral and moral second-millennium spirit. They say it belongs to the past, the bad bad bad 60s, full of irresponsibility and partying, sexual license and depravity. Well I say HA! Forget all those mostly young! It is colorful, full of joy and beautiful people, unpretentious and charming. And in the end, the guy gets the girl and they get married. As a young boomer, watching this is like slipping into Hush Puppies. You may say what you want about or against the "guilty" innocence of that era, but it sure was comfortable! I miss those times. And a note for the moderns: we were not that innocent, we knew that some of this was dangerous ground Looking for some great streaming picks? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. What's New Pussycat? - Wikipedia By the time Michael finally is able to meet Carole's parents and agree to settle down, he and Fassbender both catch the eye of yet another young woman, creating the distinct possibility of the whole thing happening all over again. Warren Beatty wanted to make a comedy film about male sex addiction and hoped Charles Feldman would produce it. The title What's New Pussycat? Beatty desired a role for his then girlfriend, the actress Leslie Caron , but Feldman wanted a different actress. Allen accepted provided he could also appear in the film. As Allen worked on the script, his first screenplay, Beatty noticed that Allen's role was continually growing at the expense of his own. Eventually, Beatty threatened to quit the production to stop this erosion, but the actor's status in Hollywood at that time had declined so severely that Feldman decided to let him leave and gave the part to Peter O'Toole. Beatty later said "I diva'ed my way out of the movie. I walked off of What's New, Pussycat? I was wrong". Groucho Marx was to have played Dr. Fassbender, but at O'Toole's insistence he was replaced by Peter Sellers. O'Toole, Sellers and director Clive Donner all made changes to the script, straining their relationship with Allen. Tension was also generated by Sellers' demanding top billing, but O'Toole described the atmosphere as stimulating. Second unit director Richard Talmadge is credited with creating the karting sequence. It opened in Paris in January as Quoi de neuf, Pussycat? The harbour scene in which the lovelorn Dr. Fritz plans to suicide and Victor's intrusion inhibits him from doing so pays tribute to the Charlie Chaplin film City Lights , in which the Little Tramp saves a dipsomaniacal millionaire bent on self-destruction. The film received mixed reviews. He criticised the script, the directing and the acting and described the film as "the most outrageously cluttered and campy, noisy and neurotic display of what is evidently intended as way-out slapstick". He praised the scenery and title song. This is one movie that is not what it seems at first glance. It has been attacked for tastelessness, and yet I have never seen a more tasteful sex comedy. Slightly in advance of the film's release, as was the custom of the era, a paperback novelization of the film was published by Dell Books. The author was renowned crime and western novelist Marvin H. Albert , who also made something of a cottage industry out of movie tie-ins. A fecund writer, he seems also to have been the most prolific American screenplay novelizer of the late '50s through mid '60s, and, during that time, the preeminent specialist at light comedy. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see What's New Pussycat? Theatrical release poster by Frank Frazetta. Sign In. Edit What's New Pussycat Fritz Fassbender Peter O'Toole Carole Werner Capucine Liz Bien Woody Allen Victor Shakapopulis Ursula Andress Rita Eddra Gale Marcel as Jean Paredes Jacques Balutin Etienne Jess Hahn Werner Howard Vernon Doctor Michel Subor Philippe Sabine Sun Nurse Nicole Karen Tempest Jacqueline Fogt Charlotte Daniel Emilfork Gas Station Man Tanya Lopert Miss Lewis Barbara Sommers Car Renter Annette Poivre Emma Richard Saint-Bris Le Maire Marion Conrad Fassbinder's Child uncredited Rosemary Blake Miss Pringle uncredited Richard Burton Man in Strip Club uncredited Georges Douking Concierge at Renee's Apartment uncredited Colin Drake What's New Pussycat? (song) - Wikipedia What's New Pussycat? The movie poster was painted by Frank Frazetta , and the animated title sequence was directed by Richard Williams. His psychoanalyst , Dr. Carole, meanwhile, decides to make Michael jealous by flirting with his nervous wreck of a friend, Victor Shakapopulis Woody Allen.
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