The Owl and the Pussycat (Columbia Pictures) (1970)

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Richard Halligan Bonney: :.ciicatac.iccn ees A eee ee Robert Klein Screenp ley Dy Meee hoe ee Buck Henry pig Colas Sh ARE URSA NR aera Ie hn a Der Blood, Sweat & Tears IDTEES: CHOP “RIOTS |Glsunk. seceraet a etontee eee: Allen Garfield Based on the play "The Owl and the Pussycat’’ MasicsPerformed by st..che.cnea hon, Blood, Sweat & Tears IEN 2 Yo 1a Yo) Sitar, Step ce prea so nas Sint Mae Noni BAS Cap Roz Kelly by Bill Manhoff HOSS OUPELVISION Movanwin. 2 sees ancients: Ken Adam Het Zinsky-. saites::s..s0ce san hese Jacques Sandulescu Presented on the New York stage WMctkeesttign: serene ieee tree Lee Harman, Joe Cranzano RUNNING TIME: 95 MINUTES SSSSSSSS SSSSSSIPSSSSSSSSSSSSFSFSSSSSSSISGSGIGHSGIGSSSOSHS, SSSSFSSSFSFEESSSSSSFFSISISGETFHISGIGHBSIIGISSGSSSSSSSSSE Robert Klein Robert Klein has demonstrated his abilities as a laugh-getter on Broadway and on television and he is rapidly achieving an important place for himself in Hollywood. The young actor was the stoned sister’s square boy friend in “The Landlord” and he plays a wisecracking, helpful college student in Columbia Pictures’ upcoming “The Pursuit of Happiness.” Now, at the Feet ate ree Theatre, Klein appears as the imperturbable best friend to whom bookworm George Segal frantically turns for advice, assistance and comfort when he becomes heavily involved with Barbra Streisand in “The Owl and the Pussycat.” As “the pussycat” in the new Columbia Pictures and Rastar Productions presentation, her first non-singing role, Miss Streisand is reunited with producer Ray Stark, who was responsible for the stage and screen versions of “Funny Girl,” her debut film for which she won an Academy Award as best actress of the year. Klein studied acting at both Alfred University and Yale School of Drama, appeared in summer stock and was a member of the Second City company in both Chicago and New York. His other Broadway appearances included “The Apple Tree,” “New Faces of 1968” and “Morning, Noon and Night.” On television, he has made guest appearances on all the major talk shows and frequent appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show. He served as star-host of CBS-TV’s satirical Sunday-night series, “Comedy Tonight.” Grace Carney Barbara Anson Joe Madden Fay Sappington Marilyn Briggs Memasine Bar 25, /:.1. Shoe. eee Se Dominic T. Barto Marshall Ward, Tom Atkins, Stan Bryant Jack Manning Production Assistant ..........0. Misi mbelitoritiegs.cicteicneeees Philip Rose, Pat Fowler and Seven-Arts Productions Directors of Photography ........ Productions esiqnion. + acc.ccwnrists seca John Robert Lloyd Art Directors: i778 Robert Wightman and Philip Rosenberg ily Editone st. ci cat Unit Production Manager ....... Assistant Director .........ccccsee set Decorator tae... he Ss. SCHPE DUPOLVISOL acictcscsischeosssese Based Aatedetet eee ete thes Leo Garen esties Bae op Wess William Saracino Hair Stylist Wardrobe ecaee Harry Stradling, A.S.C., Gaffer Andrew Laszlo, A.S.C. Grip 22.2..22 sngebus cP Leif Pedersen Ee etices weciast Marguerite James (Mat 2C; Still No. Exp. 1) Hershfeld, the world-famous cartoonist, depicts Barbra Streisand and George Segal as they appear in “The Owl and the Pussycat,” a Columbia Pictures and Rastar Productions presentation with music by the popular Blood, Sweat and Tears. The new comedy is in Panavision and color. New York is Comedy Scene The principals are a timid book store clerk and a would-be actress who is a kooky, and unsuccessful, part-time prostitute. Naturally, the New York they know, in “The Owl and the Pussycat,” starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal at the ...... Theatre in Panavision and color, is not the New York most visitors to that city come in contact with. Much of the comedy, which marks Miss Streisand’s first non-singing role, was filmed in off-beat locations. These included a book store on Fifth Avenue, a cafeteria on 57th Street and 6th Avenue, the Club 45 on West 45th Street, the World Theatre on 49th Street and a pawn shop on Eighth Avenue. More tourist-worthy locations included Lincoln Center, Central Park, the new General Motors Building and the New School for Social Research. Miss Streisand, who won an Acadamy Award as best actress of the year for “Funny Girl,” is “the pussycat” of the new comedy. She plays a girl eminently capable of handling almost any situation that might come up in her New York milieu, from the advances of a dress shop proprietor to the putting-down of a trio of joy-riders to the resentments which naturally arise when she is knocking herself out as a go-go dancer in a saloon whose patrons are absorbed in a televised ball game. Of course, in the latter incident, Barbra manages to lose her job by her forceful effort to call attention to her gyrations by dousing with a glass of beer one game-watcher who, she feels, should be girl-watching. Mat 1B; Still No. 22 Title Design Filmed in Panavision® ec ee Re cee arate Robert Grimaldi Pe eee Shirlee Strahm, George Newman Se re ee Ste re ya cere Richard Quinlan BS BI TE ee ONE ete od cc athies Edward Knott Pu ete ae ae Soa e Er Se Wayne Fitzgerald io} Ub hid (=) ete rete Ope aD Tere T PR incest reer tare Ann Roth = Pile ee eee John F. Burnett Casing hice POs... Lae een es.. Marion’ Dougherty: eT espape Mal” Robert Greenhut Supervising) Film Editor .:cts...,.:.2......s.<.2.00.¢.. Margaret Booth Wire kes William C. Gerrity FWSSOGIGS PTOAUUCED ” Jicccscsctisse.cortsssetersiasciececvitseay Cx@Orge. JUSLiN A Ray Stark-Herbert Ross Production Color by Eastmancolor A Columbia Pictures and Rastar Productions Presentation SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Herbert Ross Herbert Ross triumphantly moves from Broadway choreographer and Hollywood musical number director to full-fledged film director with “The Owl and the Pussycat,” which stars Barbra Streisand and George Segal AGsUNG ae cso tceet. Theatre in Panavision and color. Ross directed the dance numbers for “Funny Girl,” Miss Streisand’s debut film for which she won the Academy Award as best actress of the year. Music for “The Owl and the Pussycat,” a Columbia Pictures and Rastar Productions presentation, is supplied by the popular rock group, Blood, Sweat & Tears. In actual fact, Ross made his film directorial debut with the musical version of “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” but the current Ray Stark-Herbert Ross production is, with the exception of Miss Streisand’s comedy scene as a go-go dancer, non-musical. She plays a zany would-be actress and part-time prostitute in the Ray Stark-Herbert Ross production. Ross began his choreographic career when he was 23. “Caprichos,” his first ballet, was successfully performed by the Ballet Theatre and led to a dance-creating assignment for the Broadway musical, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” He choreographed his first film, ‘Carmen Jones,” for Otto Preminger and he also was choreographerdirector of the New York City Center’s revival of “Wonderful Town.” “The Owl and the Pussycat” was written for the screen by Buck Henry, based on the play by Bill Manhoff. Ray Stark—Producer of New Comedy Producer Ray Stark and actress Barbra Streisand, the pair who helped to make “Funny Girl” one of the most remarkable musicals in stage and screen history, again are teamed on “The Owl and the Pussycat,” the Columbia Pictures and Rastar Productions presentation also _ starring George Segal at the ...... Theatre in Panavision and color. Miss Streisand, who won an Academy Award as best actress of the year with her spectacular “Funny Girl’ screen debut, appears as a would-be actress and parttime prostitute who becomes involved with a timid book store clerk. It is her first non-singing role. Music for the film is by Blood, Sweat & Tears. Also involved with Stark and Miss Streisand on “The Owl and the Pussycat” were two other “Funny Girl” movie-makers: Herbert Ross, who directed that musical’s dance routines and now served as director of the new comedy, and cinematographer Harry Stradling. Stark began his career in the entertainment world as an agent. Soon after World War II he was busily peddling Red Ryder radio scripts written by his old Shakespeare professor at Rutgers University. Before long his clients included such literary luminaries as Thomas Costain, J. P. Marquand and James Gould Cozzens. Later, as executive vice-president of Seven Arts Productions and head of production, Stark helped package such important films as “West Side Story,” “Two for the Seesaw,” “The Nun’s Story,” “Anatomy of a Murder” and “By Love Possessed.” Barbra Streisand and George Segal are the comedy co-stars of “The Owl and the Pussycat,” a Columbia Pictures and Rastar Productions presentation with music by the popular Blood, Sweat & Tears. The new comedy, in Panavision and color, is concerned with the romantic and comedy misadventures of a kooky parttime prostitute and a very timid intellectual. Ray Stark produced and Herbert Ross directed. Mat 2A; Still No. 40 A determined Barbra Streisand isn’t going to let a frightened George Segal stand in the way of their romance, in this comedy scene from “The Owl and the Pussycat,’ a Columbia Pictures and Rastar Productions presentation with music by the popular Blood, Sweat & Tears. Buck Henry penned the screenplay, based on the Broadway stage success by Bill Manhoff. Ray Stark produced the new screen comedy. : Page II