Cat People is one of my favorite horror movies, so when I culled together my list of actors/actresses for Summer Under the Stars I wanted to spotlight Simone Simon. Her output isn’t prolific or revolutionary, but her role in Cat People is indelible and I’ve been fascinated by her for ye read more
Cat People Directed by Jacques Tourneur 1942/USA RKO Radio Pictures First viewing #154 of 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die I’ve been reading about this film so long it’s a wonder I haven’t seen it until now. It was certainly not a disappointment. Simone Simon plays Se read more
How to describe Cat People…. When a swell, blond American (Kent Smith) meets a dark (but not too dark) Eastern European woman (Simone Simon), she rouses all sorts of non-apple pie passions in him. Being a swell guy, he pressures her into marrying him–she’s clearly emotionally dist read more
When I first heard of Cat People, I laughed at the ridiculous sounding synopsis: A woman fears turning into a cat when she becomes sexually aroused. How could I take that seriously? It sounded like the birth of those horrible Halloween costumes, where all a girl needs is a short skirt and cat read more
There’s a genius to suggestive horror and it is not for the faint of heart. She’s the “new type of other woman.” Alice Moore finishes dinner with co-worker, Oliver Reed. The man she’s also in love with. But he’s married. Alice leaves the restaurant and heads read more
Cat
People (Jacques Tourneur,
1942)
An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who
fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they
are intimate together.
This B-Movie directed by French master Jacques Tourneur, stars Simone Simon as Irena Dubrovna, a
Serbian woma read more
I really need to stop scheduling in advance, things never go right! I know I mentioned moving I Walked with a Zombie to today but I always forget that TCM’s “day” runs from 6am-6am so when I read that the film would air the 3rd at 1:30 I failed to take into account that it read more
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For my screenwriting class I'm taking in graduate school, I have to read 2 scripts a week and write a one-page response for each. This week I chose to do sort of a script-double-feature an read more
