A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 4 nominations total
- Michael James
- (as Peter O'toole)
- Anna Fassbender
- (as Edra Gale)
- Mrs. Werner
- (as Eleonor Hirt)
- Marcel
- (as Jean Paredes)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRichard Burton: Uncredited, as man in a strip club. Burton appears with Peter O'Toole in a scene in a bar where Burton asks O'Toole, "Don't you know me from someplace?". O'Toole responds: "Give my regards to what's her name". The dialogue is a reference to their appearance together in Becket (1964), and to Burton's wife at the time, Elizabeth Taylor. Screenwriter Woody Allen later said of the Burton cameo, "It was so cute, you want to vomit".
- GoofsWhen the anarchist's bomb explodes, Carole does not react to it, although everybody else does.
- Quotes
Michael James: Did you find a job?
Victor Skakapopulis: Yeah, I got something at the striptease. I help the girls dress and undress.
Michael James: Nice job.
Victor Skakapopulis: Twenty francs a week.
Michael James: Not very much.
Victor Skakapopulis: It's all I can afford.
- Crazy creditsThe opening/closing titles feature a host of Cupid cherubs in cat masks performing various gags.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Die Unverbesserlichen: Nichts dazugelernt (1966)
There are some excellent bits - Romy Schneider, as Michael's fiancée and number one girlfriend, Carole, runs a language class which pitches in on a quarrel she has with him ('Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye' - 'You're all parrots!); Michael has nightmares where Sellers appears as, yup, Richard III, and all his girlfriends converge on him like a swarm of ants; Sellers plans a Viking funeral suicide (swathed in the Union Jack) but is interrupted by Allen dining al fresco for his birthday; O'Toole assists Sellers in a Cyrano de Bergerac style wooing; and there is frentic chase involving go-karts towards the end of the film. All this and the opera-shrilling psychiatrist's wife. And a lot of potted plants.
Fun food for the eyes really and a no-brainer, but 'What's New Pussycat?' is fun, off-the-wall, and requires no real attention span. O'Toole was certainly right for the part and of course, there is always Tom Jones' famous theme song and the cartoon credits with a chorus line of pussycats ...
- didi-5
- Oct 17, 2004
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- Also known as
- Was gibt's Neues, Pussy?
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $18,820,000
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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