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Quote by Paula Prentiss:

Jason Eldridge: Fergie will you stop, we've known each other for years. Besides, she's got 60 million of her own.
Lt. Fergie Howard: What system do you use?
Pam Dunstan: The capitalistic system.

      --Paula Prentiss (as Pam Dunstan) in The Honeymoon Machineread more quotes from Paula Prentiss...
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Paula Prentiss Overview:

Actress, Paula Prentiss, was born Paula Ragusa on Mar 4, 1938 in San Antonio, TX.

Prentiss's Top rated movies at Classic Movie Hub are: In Harm's Way, The Honeymoon Machine, The Horizontal Lieutenant, Man's Favorite Sport?, The World of Henry Orient, What's New Pussycat,.

And her Top blog posts at CMH Blog Hub are: Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion - "Paula Prentiss, Ditto!" (from Café Muscato).

As of December 2012, Paula Prentiss was 74 years old.

Paula Prentiss Biography:

Paula Ragusa (born on March 4, 1938), better known by her stage name Paula Prentiss, 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 and her co-starring role in the television situation comedy He and She.

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. 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.

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Paula Prentiss Quotes:

Stella Dunnworthy: This is exactly the sort of thing George would think of, little girl detectives that no one would suspect.

      --Paula Prentiss (as Stella Dunnworthy) in The World of Henry Orient
Jason Eldridge: Fergie will you stop, we've known each other for years. Besides, she's got 60 million of her own.
Lt. Fergie Howard: What system do you use?
Pam Dunstan: The capitalistic system.

      --Paula Prentiss (as Pam Dunstan) in The Honeymoon Machine
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Paula Prentiss Facts:

Older sister of actress Ann Prentiss. Ann displayed acute signs of emotional and mental problems in later years and in 1997 was convicted in a Santa Monica, California court of terrorizing her family, making terrorist threats, assault with a firearm, battery, and solicitation to commit the murder of Paula's husband, Richard Benjamin, and their own father. Ann was sentenced to 19 years in jail for the crimes. She died in 2010.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#91). [1995]
Chosen by Cannes Film Festival as one of the "500 Names that Made Cannes". [1999]
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Top Five Fan Favorite Classic Movies Featuring Paula Prentiss:

In Harm's Way

In Harm's Way

Fan rating: 6.00
The Honeymoon Machine

The Honeymoon Machine

Fan rating: 5.00
The Horizontal Lieutenant

The Horizontal Lieutenant

Fan rating: 5.00
Man's Favorite Sport?

Man's Favorite Sport?

Fan rating: 4.50
The World of Henry Orient

The World of Henry Orient

Fan rating: 3.33

Filmography (Films and Roles) of Paula Prentiss:

The World of Henry O...
(as Stella Dunnworthy)

Man's Favorite Sport...
(as Abigail Page)

In Harm's Way
(as Beverly McConnell)

The Honeymoon Machin...
(as Pam Dunstan)

The Horizontal Lieut...
(as Molly Blue)