Ava Gardner and Siamese Cats

Classic Cat-a-Day: February 16, 2013 - Fred Astaire

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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Dancer extraordinaire, Fred Astaire, fingers the Siamese.

 

Favorite Fred Astaire movies: Dancing Lady (1933), Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935),  Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), A Damsel in Distress (1937), Carefree (1938), The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), You Were Never Lovelier (1942), The Band Wagon (1953), Daddy Long Legs (1955), Funny Face (1957), On the Beach (1959), The Pleasure of His Company (1961), The Towering Inferno (1974), Ghost Story (1981)

Classic Cat-a-Day: February 13, 2013 - Betty Garrett & Larry Parks

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Actress Betty Garrett and husband, actor Larry Parks, try to break up a feline fight before dinner.

Favorite Betty Garrett/Larry Parks movies: The Jolson Story (1946), Down To Earth (1947), Take Me Out To The Ball Game (1949), Neptune's Daughter (1949), On The Town (1949), My Sister Eileen (1955), The Shadow on the Window (1957),

 

Classique Chat-de-jour: 12 Fevrier, 2013 - Catherine Deneuve

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Beautiful French actress, Catherine Deneuve, with a little ebony friend in a photo from the 1960s.

 

Favorite Catherine Deneuve movies: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Belle de Jour (1967), Manon 70 (1968),  Mayerling (1968), Heartbeat (1968), The April Fools (1969),  Mississippi Mermaid (1969), The Last Metro (1980), Indochine (1992), Ma saison préférée (1993), Place Vendôme (1998)

Classic Cat-a-Day: February 11, 2013 - Laird Cregar

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Monday, February 11, 2013

Laird Cregar, actor who specialized in sinister characters, shows his softer side with a little Siamese.

Favorite Laird Cregar movies: Blood and Sand (1941), I Wake Up Screaming (1941), Rings On Her Fingers (1942), This Gun For Hire (1942), The Black Swan (1942), Heaven Can Wait (1943), The Lodger (1944), Hangover Square (1945)

Classic Cat-a-Day: February 8, 2013 - Kim Novak

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Friday, February 8, 2013

 

 Free spirit, Kim Novak, with a Siamese cat (Pyewacket?).

   

Favorite Kim Novak movies: Pushover (1954),  The Man With The Golden Arm (1955), Jeanne Eagles (1957), Pal Joey (1957), Vertigo (1958), Middle of the Night (1959), Strangers When We Meet (1960), Boy's Night Out (1962).

Classic Cat-a-Day: February 6, 2013 - 'Tippi' Hedren

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

 

'Tippi' Hedren's love for cats isn't for The Birds, as proven by The Roar Foundation and Shambala Preserve which she created to aid abandoned exotic felines.

 

  

Favorite 'Tippi' Hedren movies:  The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964).

 

Classic Cat-a-Day: February 5, 2013 - Shirley MacLaine

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

 

Shirley MacLaine shows off her lovely orange kitty.

(sorry for the blurry image of kitty---she must have moved!)

Favorite Shirley MacLaine movies: The Trouble With Harry (1955), The Sheepman (1958), Some Came Running (1958), The Apartment (1960), Ocean's 11 (1960), My Geisha (1962), Two For the Seesaw (1962), What A Way To Go! (1964), The Turning Point (1977), Terms of Endearment (1983), Steel Magnolias (1989).

Classic Cat-a-Day: February 3 & 4, 2013 - Judy Garland & Dolores del Rio

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Monday, February 4, 2013

Glamorous starlet from Mexico, Dolores del Rio, and a beautiful black longhair. 

Favorite Dolores del Rio movies: Bird of Paradise (1932), Flying Down to Rio (1933), Journey Into Fear (1943), The Fugitive (1947), Flaming Star (1960), Cheyenne Autumn (1963).

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Sunday, February 3, 2013

 Judy Garland shares a shiver or two with a friend.

Favorite Judy Garland movies: The Wizard of Oz (1939), Ziegfeld Girl (1941), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Clock (1945), The Harvey Girls (1946), The Pirate (1948), A Star Is Born (1954), Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), A Child is Waiting (1963), I Could Go On Singing (1963).

Classic Cat-a-Day: February 2, 2013 - Jane Fonda

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

 

Jane Fonda, from a series of photos showing the actress doing yoga exercises with her Siamese cat.

 

Favorite Jane Fonda movies: In the Cool of the Day (1963), Sunday in New York (1963), Barefoot in the Park (1967), Comes a Horseman (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), Old Gringo (1989)

 

Classic Cat-a-Day: January 30, 2013 - James Dean

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

 

James Dean tries to make friends with a Siamese.

  

Favorite James Dean movies:  Rebel Without a Cause (1955), East of Eden (1955), Giant (1956)

 

Classic Cat-a-Day: January 25, 2013 - James Stewart

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Friday, January 25, 2013

 

James Stewart and Pyewacket, his neighbor's (Kim Novak) very "familiar" Siamese cat.  Bell, Book and Candle - 1958

Favorite Jimmy Stewart movies: After the Thin Man (1936), Of Human Hearts (1938), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Made For Each Other (1939), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Destry Rides Again (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), The Philadelphia Story (1940), It's A Wonderful Life (1946), Magic Town (1947), Winchester '73 (1950), Harvey (1950), The Naked Spur (1953), Thunder Bay (1953), The Far Country (1954), Rear Window (1954), The Man From Laramie (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1959), Two Rode Together (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Shenandoah (1965), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965),

 

Classic Cat-a-Day: January 20, 2013 - Charles Chaplin

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

 

Charles Chaplin and a Siamese friend.  Is Charlie thinking of the purrfect role for her to play in his new production, "The Kit"?

Favorite Charlie Chaplin movies:  The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Limelight (1952)

 

Classic Cat-a-Day: January 6, 2013 - Peter Lorre

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

 

Peter Lorre with a pair of Siamese, if you please.

Favorite Peter Lorre movies: M (1931), Mad Love (1935), All Through the Night (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Beat the Devil (1953)

Classic Cat-a-Day: January 3, 2013 - Elizabeth Taylor

For 2013, I hope to post one image a day of classic movie stars with kitties.  There are tons of images of stars with doggies, so finding 365 photos with cats will be a challenge!

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Elizabeth Taylor with her Siamese kitty, "Beauty".

Favorite Elizabeth Taylor movies:  National Velvet (1944), A Place in the Sun (1951), The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), The Sandpiper (1965), The Taming of the Shrew (1967)