What's New, Pussycat?

Peter O’Toole as Paris fashion-editor Michael, on his first visit with clearly-bonkers psychiatrist Fassbender (Peter Sellers), from Woody Allen’s script, Barbara Somers the schoolteacher, Rosemary Blake the debater, in director Clive Donner’s messy sex-comedy hit What’s New, Pussycat?, 1965.

Tom Jones with the hit title tune by Burt Bacharach and Hal David over the gaudy credits, and an opening scene that sounds like a surviving piece of Woody Allen’s original screenplay, Peter Sellers as shrink Fassbender, at war with his burly wife (Eddra Gale), opening What’s New, Pussycat?, 1965.

Screenwriter Woody Allen as Parisian Victor, not quite able to take advantage of Carole (Romy Schneider), the discouraged fianceè of his commitment-averse fashion editor pal Michael (Peter O’Toole), who meantime attempts a last fling with neurotic stripper Liz (Paula Prentiss), in What’s New, Pussycat?, 1965.