Paula Prentiss Overview:

Actress, Paula Prentiss, was born Paula Ragusa on Mar 4, 1938 in San Antonio, TX. As of December 2023, Paula Prentiss was 85 years old.

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From the Archives: in "Man's Favorite Sport?"

By The Metzinger Sisters on May 13, 2022 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

This beautiful headshot of was taken to publicize the Universal film "Man's Favorite Sport?", which was released in 1964. Paula played alongside Rock Hudson in this fun comedy set at a campground in California. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from... Read full article


Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964) Starring Rock Hudson and

By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 8, 2019 From 4 Star Films

Man’s Favorite Sport was meant to be a?Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn reunion that never materialized. Because, of course, put together with Howard Hawks that only means one film — the most outrageous, cockamamie, frenzied escapade ever captured on celluloid — Bringing up Baby (1... Read full article


?The next 58 years will be a breeze?: An interview with RiverRun Master of Cinema awardees and Richard Benjamin

on Apr 7, 2019 From Comet Over Hollywood

The RiverRun International Film Festival has been held since 1998. Originally held in Brevard, NC, the festival now takes place in Winston-Salem. Held this year from April 4 ? 14, 2019, the festival is screening 172 films from 47 countries?71 features and 101 shorts. Each year, a pillar in the film ... Read full article


Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion - ", Ditto!"

By Muscato on Feb 16, 2013 From Caf? Muscato

Successful Camp... even when it reveals self-parody, reeks of self-love - Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp" "Yvette Mimieux as herself"* - this is the kind of phrase that real camp-film aficionados - me, of course, among them - live for. And poor Paula, just a ditto... This movie appears to a nexus ... Read full article


Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion - ", Ditto!"

By Muscato on Feb 16, 2013 From Caf? Muscato

Successful Camp... even when it reveals self-parody, reeks of self-love - Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp" "Yvette Mimieux as herself"* - this is the kind of phrase that real camp-film aficionados - me, of course, among them - live for. And poor Paula, just a ditto... This movie appears to a nexus ... Read full article


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Paula Prentiss Quotes:

TV Thompson: Tuggle, are you a good girl?
Tuggle Carpenter: Please, I don't want to disillusion you or disappoint you.
TV Thompson: No, no, no, no. I won't be disillusioned or disappointed. Are you a good girl, Tuggle?
Tuggle Carpenter: [reluctantly] Ummhmm.
TV Thompson: [disillusioned and disappointed] Oh...
Tuggle Carpenter: [leaving] I knew it.


Jason Eldridge: Fergie will you stop, we've known each other for years. Besides, she's got 60 million of her own.
Lt. Fergie Howard: What system do you use?
Pam Dunstan: The capitalistic system.


Tuggle Carpenter: Girls like me weren't built to be educated. We were made to have children. That's my ambition: to be a walking, talking baby factory. Legal, of course. And with union labor.


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Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#91). [1995]

Older sister of actress Ann Prentiss. Ann displayed acute signs of emotional and mental problems in later years and in 1997 was convicted in a Santa Monica, California court of terrorizing her family, making terrorist threats, assault with a firearm, battery, and solicitation to commit the murder of Paula's husband, Richard Benjamin, and their own father. Ann was sentenced to 19 years in jail for the crimes. She died in 2010.

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