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  • The Stepford Wives
  • The Stepford Wives review by robertconnor from London, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars 'I'll Just Die If I Don't Get This Recipe' 4 April 2005
    ...ing her eyes to tell us much of what we need to know, and as her friend Bobbie, Paula Prentiss is all gauche charm and ungainly humour amongst the sleek and sleepy housewives...   Read customer review
  • Catch 22
  • Catch 22 review by A customer from
    Rated - 2.5 stars MASH is THE movie...Catch-22 is THE book 8 December 2011
    ...ertainment, but as an echo of that febrile 1968-74 period of movie history. Was Paula Prentiss the only female they could get to strip for the part? Just OK. Just about....   Read customer review

Paula Prentiss - filmography


  • The Stepford Wives on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Paula Prentiss,  Katharine Ross,  Peter Masterson
    Director: Bryan Forbes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The womenfolk of Stepford, Connecticut, all seem to display the same characteristics - adoring of their husbands and happy to serve their every whim. New arrivals Joanna (Katharine Ross) and Bobby (Paula Prentiss) find the behaviour of the wives around them distinctly odd, and are also intrigued by ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,354 members
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  • The Parallax View on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Paula Prentiss,  Anthony Zerbe,  Kelly Thordsen
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle's Space Needle, but his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,174 members
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  • Born To Win on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Paula Prentiss,  George Segal,  Hector Elizondo
    Director: Ivan Passer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama starring George Segal as an ex-hairdresser who struggles to support his expensive drug habit and to avoid arrest, turns 'narc', informing on his fellow junkies. Eventually Segal's sense of self-hatred threatens to overwhelm him.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 300 members
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  • Catch 22 on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Paula Prentiss,  Bob Newhart,  Martin Sheen
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,528 members
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  • What's New Pussycat on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Paula Prentiss,  Romy Schneider,  Peter Sellers
    Director: Clive Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A notorious womanizer, fashion editor Michael James (Peter O'Toole) decides to seek the help of a psychiatrist when he begins to feel that his inability to commit to a relationship is adversely affecting his personal life. Desperate to remain faithful to his fiancée Carole (Romy Schneider), Michael ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 916 members
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  • In Harm's Way on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Paula Prentiss,  Kirk Douglas,  Dana Andrews
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 412 members
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  • The World Of Henry Orient on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Paula Prentiss,  Tom Bosley,  Angela Lansbury
    Director: George Roy Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Peter Sellers stars in this minor masterpiece directed by George Roy Hill (of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and 'The Sting' fame). Sellers plays Henry Orient, an eccentric concert pianist with an ego much larger than his talent. When two schoolgirls become infatuated with Orient and begin to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 132 members
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  • Man's Favourite Sport on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Roscoe Karns,  Paula Prentiss,  John McGiver
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) is a super salesman of sporting goods who sells fishing equipment but knows nothing about the sport. Roger's boss Cadwalader (John McGiver) gets an idea from publicity director Abigail (Paula Prentiss) to enter him in a fishing contest, and the inept angler has a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 217 members
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Paula Prentiss facts

5 most recent films

Saturday the 14th - 2.0 stars
The Stepford Wives - 3.0 stars
The Parallax View - 3.5 stars
Born To Win - 2.0 stars
Catch 22 - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Parallax View - 3.5 stars
Man's Favourite Sport - 3.5 stars
In Harm's Way - 3.5 stars
Catch 22 - 3.0 stars
The Stepford Wives - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Saturday the 14th - 2.0 stars
Born To Win - 2.0 stars
The World Of Henry Orient - 2.5 stars
Where The Boys Are - 2.5 stars
What's New Pussycat - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Anthony Zerbe - 2 times - show films
Chuck Waters - 2 times - show films
Kenneth Mars - 2 times - show films
Lee Pulford - 2 times - show films
Ford Rainey - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alan J. Pakula - 2 times - show films
Mike Nichols - 1 times - show films
Howard Hawks - 1 times - show films
Clive Donner - 1 times - show films
Henry Levin - 1 times - show films