What's New Pussycat?

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What's New Pussycat?

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Directed by Clive Donner
Produced by Charles K. Feldman
Written by Woody Allen
Starring Peter Sellers
Peter O'Toole
Romy Schneider
Capucine
Paula Prentiss
Ursula Andress
Music by Burt Bacharach
Cinematography Jean Badal
Editing by Fergus McDonell
Distributed by MGM
Release date(s) 108 min.
Running time 1965
Country U.K. / U.S.A.
Language English
French
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Theme song single by Tom Jones
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Theme song single by Tom Jones
What's New Pussycat? soundtrack
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What's New Pussycat? soundtrack

What's New Pussycat? is a 1965 film directed by Clive Donner and starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine and Ursula Andress.

This was Woody Allen's film debut, as well as his first produced script.

The title theme of the film was written by Burt Bacharach and sung by Tom Jones.

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[edit] Starring

[edit] Trivia

  • American film critics condemned the film as decadent and immoral.
  • Warren Beatty was originally to have played the part of Michael with Groucho Marx as Dr Fassbender. All of Michael's girlfriends were to have been played by the same girl. Beatty fell out with Charles Feldman over the script and quit.
  • Capucine played Renée Lefebvre; in real life, her name was Germaine Lefebvre.
  • When Woody Allen turned in his script to Charles Feldman it did not have a title. It stayed this way until one day Feldman overheard Warren Beatty, who was living at his Beverly Hills mansion, talking to one of the hundreds of gorgeous women he was seeing at the time. His usual greeting of "What's new, pussycat?" was heard by Feldman who screamed out "title!"

[edit] Quotes

Michael joins Victor at a pavement cafe where he is playing chess with a girl. He is followed by Toulouse Lautrec who sits at another table with Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.

Later in the same scene:

Michael: "Did you get a job?"
Victor: "Yes, I got something at the strip-tease, I help the girls dress and undress"
Michael: "Nice job"
Victor: "Twenty Francs a week"
Michael: "Not very much"
Victor: "It's all I could afford"

A typical Woody Allen one-liner: at one point, when under extreme pressure to marry, Michael says "Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!"

Peter O'Toole bumps into Richard Burton in a strip club; Burton says: "Excuse me, but don't you know me from somewhere?" O'Toole answers, "The name's familiar, but I just can't place the face..."

[edit] References

The Times, 2nd September 1965 & 6th September 1966

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