Paula Prentiss (born March 4, 1938) is an American actress well-known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are, Man's Favorite Sport?, The Stepford Wives, The Black Marble, and The Parallax View.
She was born Paula Ragusa to Sicilian emigrants in San Antonio, Texas.
Prentiss first became known as a comedic actress with such films as Where the Boys Are, The Honeymoon Machine, Bachelor in Paradise, and The Horizontal Lieutenant, where she was teamed with actor Jim Hutton, who was also tall; Hutton stood 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) to her 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m). She later starred with Rock Hudson in Man's Favorite Sport?, in The World of Henry Orient and What's New, Pussycat? with Peter Sellers, Catch-22 and Last of the Red Hot Lovers with Alan Arkin, In Harm's Way with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, Move with Elliott Gould, The Parallax View with Warren Beatty, and Billy Wilder's last film Buddy Buddy with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
For one season (1967–1968), Paula starred with her husband, Richard Benjamin, in the CBS sitcom He & She. Although not a big ratings success, the stylish series was considered ahead of its time in humor and sophistication. It is viewed as a landmark sitcom and a thematic precursor to the crop of MTM-style sitcoms to emerge a couple of seasons later. Prentiss was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Comedy.
Personal
She is married to actor/director Richard Benjamin. They have two (now adult) children, Ross and Prentiss, and live in the Hollywood Hills. They appeared together in He & She (1967–1968), as well as the film Catch-22 (1970).
Paula's sister Ann is also an actress.
Partial filmography
Where the Boys Are (1960)
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
Follow the Boys (1963)
Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
In Harm's Way (1965)
What's New, Pussycat? (1965)
Catch-22 (1970)
Born to Win (1971)
Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
The Parallax View (1974)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
The Black Marble (1980)
Saturday the 14th (1981)
Buddy Buddy (1981)
Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
Hard Four (2007)
External links
Paula Prentiss at the Internet Movie Database
This article about a United States film actor born in the 1930s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
NewPP limit report
Preprocessor node count: 255/1000000
Post-expand include size: 1766/2048000 bytes
Template argument size: 597/2048000 bytes
Expensive parser function count: 0/500
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Prentiss"
Categories: 1938 births | American film actors | Sicilian-Americans | Living people | Northwestern University alumni | People from San Antonio, Texas | American film actor, 1930s birth stubs
Views
Article
Discussion
Edit this page
History
Personal tools
Log in / create account
if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha();
Navigation
Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Search
Interaction
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact Wikipedia
Donate to Wikipedia
Help
Toolbox
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Printable version Permanent linkCite this page
Languages
Deutsch
Nederlands
Suomi
This page was last modified on 6 September 2008, at 19:09.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();
