The young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
The Watchmen and San Andreas star leans into a different side of herself to play a hard-hitting new role.
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Title: The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
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| Simone Simon | ... | Ghost of Irena | |
| Kent Smith | ... | Oliver 'Ollie' Reed | |
| Jane Randolph | ... | Alice Reed | |
| Ann Carter | ... | Amy Reed | |
| Eve March | ... | Miss Callahan | |
| Julia Dean | ... | Mrs. Julia Farren | |
| Elizabeth Russell | ... | Barbara Farren | |
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Erford Gage | ... | Police Captain |
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Sir Lancelot | ... | Edward |
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This mostly unrelated sequel to Cat People (1942) has Amy, the young daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed. Amy is a very imaginative child who has trouble differentiating fantasy from reality, and has no friends her own age as a result. She makes an imaginary friend though, her father's dead first wife Irena. At about the same time, she befriends Julia Farren, an aging reclusive actress who is alienated from her own daughter Barbara. Written by Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
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imaginary friend | sequel | child in peril | child's point of view | ghost |Taglines:
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April 1944 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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(Traditional French Christmas carol)
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The theme within the film, a child believed to be on the verge of insanity because she lives in a fantasy world, was personal to producer Val Lewton who behaved in a similar way as a child. His wife has said that she felt he never truly came back to the real world as an adult See more »Goofs
The vehicle that passes Amy on the bridge leaves no tracks in the snow next to her. See more »Alternate Versions
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Il est né, le divin Enfant(Traditional French Christmas carol)
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but then that should really be no surprise considering who's involved here..Val Lewton, Robert Wise and returning star Simone Simon here in a much different albeit the same role as in CAT PEOPLE. Ann Carter as Amy is absolutely phenomenal in this film as well.
This celebration of the strength of a child's imagination is a joy to watch as it is in essence her imagination which gives her strength and courage and in the end will even her tormented and worried father , still terribly haunted by the events in CAT PEOPLE, need it?
While this is in part a sequel to CAT PEOPLE, it's relation to that film is mild at best. No this is a journey into the fantastic through the eyes of one very imaginative yet very lonely child. Beautiful and moving.