''Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You'' is a 1970 American

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directed by

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. Intended as a sequel to the 1965 film ''

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'', it stars

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and

Severn Darden Severn Teakle Darden Jr. (November 9, 1929 – May 27, 1995) was an American comedian and actor, and a founding member of The Second City Chicago-based comedy troupe as well as its predecessor, the Compass Players. He is known from his film appe ...

Plot

A neurotic American living in Rome consults with an equally neurotic

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about his various fears, and the disintegrating relationship with his wife.

Cast

as Fred Dobbs *

as Millie *

as Charlie *

as Dr. Fahrquardt *

Joyce Van Patten Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) is an American film and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in films like ''The Bad News Bears'' (1976), '' St. Elmo's Fire'' (1985) (as Mrs. Beamish), and as Gloria Noonan in '' Grown Ups'' (2010) ...

as Anna *

Beba Lončar Desanka "Beba" Lončar (Serbian Cyrillic: Десанка „Беба“ Лончар; born 28 April 1943) is a former Yugoslav film actress. She appeared in 52 films between 1960 and 1982. She was born in Belgrade, Serbia. Known for her film care ...

as Ornella * Veronica Carlson as Liz *

Ian Trigger Ian Trigger (30 September 1938 – 6 January 2010) was a British actor of stage, film and television who had a successful career in the United States. A diminutive actor, Trigger worked in London's West End, on Broadway in New York, and acr ...

as Dr. Ponti * Katia Christine as Angelica *

Gaby André Gaby André (born Gabrielle Louise Mathilde Andreu; March 5, 1920 – August 27, 1972) was a French film actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor perfo ...

as Flavia *

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as Franco * Daniël Sola as Fernando * Dari Lallou as Hesther * Linda Morand as Moira *

Madeline Smith Madeline Smith (born 2 August 1949) is an English actress. After working as a model in the late 1960s, she went on to appear in many television series and stage productions, as well as comedy and horror films, in the 1970s and 1980s. Smith pla ...

as Gwendolyn *

Maurizio Lucidi Maurizio Lucidi (1932–2005) was an Italian director, screenwriter and editor, sometimes credited as Mark Lender. Born in Florence, Lucidi started his career as film editor in the early 1960s. In 1964 he was assistant director for Pier Paolo P ...

as Director *

Leopoldo Trieste Leopoldo Trieste (3 May 1917 – 25 January 2003) was an Italian actor, film director and script writer. Trieste was born in Reggio Calabria. He worked with directors such as Pietro Germi, Francis Ford Coppola, Giuseppe Tornatore, Mario Bava, T ...

as Desk Clerk

Production

Filming began in Rome in mid 1969. It was shot at

Cinecittà Studios Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were constru ...

and on location around the city. The music was composed by

Lalo Schifrin Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Music of Latin America, Lati ...

Reception

The ''Los Angeles Times'' said the film falls down with "a thud".

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