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The Wasp Woman ()

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The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
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Janice Starlin
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Bill Lane (as Fred Eisley)
Barboura Morris ...
Mary Dennison
William Roerick ...
Arthur Cooper
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Eric Zinthrop
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Les Hellman
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Night Watchman (as Bruno Ve Sota)
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Paul Thompson
Carolyn Hughes ...
Jean Carson
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Maureen Reardon
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First Delivery Man
Lani Mars ...
Nurse
Philip Barry ...
Second Delivery Man (as Phillip Barry)
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Gene Corman ...
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Doctor in the Hospital (uncredited)
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Renfrew - Beekeeper (uncredited)
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Mr. Barker - Front Office Executive (uncredited)

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Roger Corman

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Leo Gordon ... (screenplay by)
 
Kinta Zertuche ... (from a story by)

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Roger Corman ... producer (produced by)

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Fred Katz ... (music by)

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Harry Neumann ... director of photography (as Harry C. Newman)

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Carlo Lodato ... film editor

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Daniel Haller ... (as Dan Haller)

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Grant Keate ... makeup artist (as Grant R. Keats)

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Jack Bohrer ... production manager
Paul Rapp ... production manager (uncredited)

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Jack Hill ... director: additional scene for TV version (uncredited)

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Karl Brainard ... property master (as Carl Brainard)

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Philip Mitchell ... sound (as Philip N. Mitchell)

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Marjorie Corso ... wardrobe (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Janice Starlin, the owner of a cosmetics firm, sees that her fading beauty is not only causing waves in her personal life but causing some prestige problems for her also-fading business. She becomes an easy mark for a pseudo-scientist, Eric Zinthrop, who claims to have developed a serum from the enzymes of wasps that will turn aging skin to youthful-looking skin. The second-best thing to a time machine. She, without any hesitation, agrees to be the first human to try the Zinthro injections. But, as her beauty returns, her secretary, Mary Dennison, and her advertising executive, Bill Lane, notices she is also having a personality change and it isn't for the better, albeit she was no Miss Congeniality to begin with. Then, Zinthrop gets hit by an automobile, for plot-development purposes, and is somewhat incapacitated and not in any shape to be whipping up any new batches of Zinthrop's Wasp Enzyme Injection Serum and, without her enzyme injections, Janice turns into a wasp-like woman and meaner that a yellow-jacket hornet. Several people don't live to regret coming into contact with her, and this is not good for the business, either. Written by Les Adams

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Also Known As
  • Insect Woman (United States)
  • Wasp Woman (United States)
  • La femme guêpe (France)
  • La Femme Guêpe (France)
  • La mujer avispa (Spain)
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  • 63 min
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Budget $50,000 (estimated)

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Trivia Susan Cabot'x character plays a woman who takes wasp "royal jelly enzyme" to stay younger. In real life, Cabot suffered from mental illness. She reportedly tried to treat it with human growth hormone, which her son took for dwarfism, but it may have exacerbated her illness. Her son later killed her, reportedly in self-defense after she attacked him during a mental breakdown. See more »
Goofs When the Doctor makes the guinea pigs younger, the supposedly younger, smaller guinea pigs are in fact lab rats. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into The Wasp Woman (2016). See more »
Quotes First Delivery Man: Hi, pretty puss! You know where, um... Miss Starlin's office is?
Maureen Reardon: [aloof] Suite number one.
First Delivery Man: [giggles] La-di-dah! The Duchess of Flatbush, herself.
Maureen Reardon: How'd you like to have this phone wrapped around your ear? Wiseguy.
First Delivery Man: That's more like it, sister.
[to his colleague]
First Delivery Man: Suite number one.
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