Paula Prentiss
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Paula Prentiss (born Paula Ragusa; March 4, 1938) is an American actress best known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are, Man's Favorite Sport?, The Stepford Wives, What's New Pussycat?, In Harm's Way, The Black Marble, and The Parallax View, and the cult television series He & She.
Early life
Prentiss was born Paula Gardner Ragusa in San Antonio, Texas, the elder daughter of Paulene (née Gardner) and Thomas J. Ragusa, a social sciences professor at San Antonio's University of the Incarnate Word. Her father was of Sicilian descent, and Prentiss was raised Roman Catholic. She had a younger sister, Ann Prentiss, who was also an actress.
Before high school, Paula, who grew to 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m), was always the tallest person in class. She attended Lamar High School in Houston, Texas. In 1958, while studying drama at Northwestern University, she met future husband Richard Benjamin, who impressed her with his sophistication and height (he was taller than she was). While attending Northwestern she was discovered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was offered a film contract.
Personal life
Prentiss has been married to actor-director Richard Benjamin since 1961.
Career
Prentiss rose to fame after appearing in Where the Boys Are (1960). Jim Hutton appeared as her co-star. The film was a success, and MGM decided to reteam them in three more comedies, promoting them as a new William Powell and Myrna Loy (1961) with Bob Hope (1962). They were Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's two best male and female contract players.
Hutton and Prentiss were supposed to be in Follow the Boys (1963), a Where the Boys Are Not able comedy, but the boy's co-star, Russ Tamblyn, was not as well, but he was destined to be out, and Prentiss' co-star was Russ Tamblyn.
In Man's Favorite Sport, Howard Hawks plays her as the female lead opposite Rock Hudson. (1963) at Universal, her first film outside of MGM. "Paula Prentiss was fine, but she couldn't remember what she was doing from one shot to the next," Hawks later said. Her shots were never equaled.
In 1963 at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park, Prentiss appeared on stage in As You Like It.
She appeared in The World of Henry Orient (1964) and In Harm's Way (1965) and made a cameo in Looking for Love (1964). She has also played a key supporting role in What's New, Pussycat? Peter Sellers (1965) with him. On the set of the film, however, she had a nervous breakdown. "I just climbed up the ropes to the catwalk and started walking the beams one day after shooting," she told People in 1976. 'I'm going to jump,' i'm going to jump very loudly and clearly.' A French technician grabbed me, and there I was hanging by one arm." She had been hospitalized for nine months.
Prentiss co-starred with her husband Richard Benjamin in the CBS sitcom He & She for one season (1967-1988). Prentiss was nominated for the Best Performance by an Actress in a Comedy by the Emmy Award for her role.
In 1969, she appeared Off-Broadway in the double production, Arf and The Great Airplane Snatch, directed by Benjamin.
Prentiss returned to film with a small part in Catch-22 (1970). In Move (1970) with Elliott Gould and Born to Win (1971) with George Segal, she had the female lead. She was one of the Red Hot Lovers' last of the Red Hot Lovers with Alan Arkin. Prentiss appeared in the Made-for-television film The Couple Takes a Wife (1972).
She was the female protagonist in Crazy Joe (1974) and appeared in The Parallax View (1974) with Warren Beatty. She was the second woman in The Stepford Wives (1975), alongside Katharine Ross.
Prentiss and Benjamin appeared on Broadway in The Norman Conquests in 1976. They then headed to Australia to make No Room to Run (1977).
Prentiss appeared in Having Babies II (1977), Friendships, Lies (1979), and the Capital of the Hill (1980). She appeared in The Black Marble (1980), but it was not widely seen.
She appeared in Buddy Buddy (1981), her husband's last film, with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, on Saturday (1981). She produced Packin' It In (1983) with her husband and produced M.A.D.D., a made-for-television film. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (1983)
Prentiss guest appeared on television shows such as Murder, She Wrote, and Burke's Law.
Prentiss had not appeared in a film for more than 30 years before he appeared in I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, a horror film directed by Oz Perkins. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2016.