What's New Pussycat?
original movie poster
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

What's New Pussycat? soundtrack

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Starring

• Peter Sellers — Dr. Fritz Fassbender
• Peter O'Toole — Michael James
• Romy Schneider — Carole Werner
• Capucine — Renée Lefebvre
• Paula Prentiss — Liz Bien
• Woody Allen — Victor Shakapopulis
• Ursula Andress — Rita
• Michel Subor — Philippe
• Eddra Gale — Anna Fassbender (as Edra Gale)
• Richard Burton — Man in Strip Club
• Katrin Schaake — Jacqueline
• Eléonore Hirt — Mrs. Sylvia Werner
• Jean Parédès — Marcel
• Jacques Balutin — Etienne
• Jess Hahn — Mr. Werner
• Howard Vernon — Doctor
• Francoise Hardy — Mayor's assistant, scribe

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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!"

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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..."

References

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

External links

• What's New Pussycat? at the Internet Movie Database