Paula PrentissFilmography

Murder, She Wrote: Incident in Lot 7

Synopsis: This unforgettable episode is set at Universal Studios, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) has arrived to supervise the film version of her novel "Messengers of Midnight." It isn't long before Jessica has had a confrontation with the film's abrasive producer Darryl Hayward (Ron Leibman), who seems to Read More

M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers

Actors: Mariette Hartley, Paula Prentiss, David Huddleston, Bert Remsen

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley portrays Candy Lightner, the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, in this made-for-television movie produced and written by Michael Braverman. After her daughter is killed by a drunk driver in a hit-and-run accident, Lightner forms M.A.D.D. to enact legislation curbing the Read More

Packin' It In

Synopsis: In this serio-comic made-for television adventure, an L.A. family gets more than it bargained for when it abandons the smog and hubbub for the peace of rural Oregon. Unfortunately, instead of finding a violence-free environment, they discover that they are surrounded by ultra-right-wing Read More

Saturday the 14th

Actors: Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Severn Darden, Jeffrey Tambor, Kari Michaelsen

Synopsis: In this early '80s send-up of venerable horror clichés, Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss star as John and Mary, an ordinary couple who inherit a mysterious house from a deceased uncle. Along with kids Debbie (Kari Michaelsen) and Billy (Kevin Brando), they move into the musty mansion, unaware Read More

Buddy Buddy

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: As if in some way Billy Wilder sensed that Buddy Buddy would ultimately turn out to be his final feature film, Wilder lets loose scatter-shot stingers at a wide range of pop-culture targets -- from sex clinics, to 60 Minutes, to movie references, to disco, to Betamax video recorders. Based on Read More

Saturday Night Live: Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss

Actors: Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, The Grateful Dead

Synopsis: This 1980 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss and features musical guest the Grateful Dead. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Top of the Hill

Synopsis: The 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid provides the setting for this drama that centers on a man's mid-life crisis. While there, he gets involved with love, sex and other diversions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Friendships, Secrets and Lies

Synopsis: Based on Babs H. Deal's novel The Walls Came Tumbling Down, Friendships, Secrets and Lies is about...just what the title says it's about. An old college building is bulldozed, revealing the skeleton of a newborn baby stuffed in the air shaft. Forensic tests prove that the infant died twenty years Read More

The Black Marble

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbara Babcock, James Woods, John Hancock

Synopsis: Adapted for the screen by novelist Joseph Wambaugh himself, The Black Marble stars Robert Foxworth as a burned-out, hard-drinking cop who is teamed with idealistic lady officer Paula Prentiss. These two polar opposites wade their way through a seamy urban world of corruption and hopelessness. The Read More

No Room to Run

Synopsis: In this thriller, a concert promoter is sent to Australia where he ends up entangled in corporate spying and is forced to fight for his life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Having Babies 2

Actors: Rhea Perlman

Synopsis: Like 1976's "Part One," Having Babies, Part 2 is a multiplotted TV movie about the effect of parenthood on four couples. The first film concentrated on a natural childbirth class. This second film broadens the subject matter with glances at adoptions and unwanted pregnancies. Among the many new Read More

The Stepford Wives

Actors: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Patrick O'Neal

Synopsis: In the William Goldman-scripted, Bryan Forbes-directed adaptation of Ira Levin's savagely satiric sci-fi novel The Stepford Wives, housewife Joanna (Katharine Ross) moves with husband Walter (Peter Masterson) and their children to the "ideal" suburban community of Stepford, CT. Slowly, Joanna Read More

Crazy Joe

Actors: Mario Erpichini, Nella Dina, Timothy Holley

Synopsis: This graphically violent crime drama follows the relatively brief career of the notorious racketeer Crazy Joe Gallo, who formed an alliance with all of New York City's African-American gangs while serving time in Attica. Once he got out, he used that alliance to try and take over the Mafia, an act Read More

The Parallax View

Actors: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle's Space Needle, but his Read More

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Actors: John Batiste, Oliver Steindecker, Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Paula Prentiss, Renée Taylor

Synopsis: Based on a play by Neil Simon, this comedy concerns Barney Cashman (Alan Arkin), the owner of successful seafood restaurant who is stuck in the depths of a mid-life crisis. Barney's marriage is no longer providing him with a sense of romantic adventure, and when he discovers his mother's apartment Read More

The Couple Takes a Wife

Actors: Nanette Fabray, Robert Goulet, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Contrary to popular belief, "B" pictures didn't die in the 1970s; they just changed their classification to "ABC Movies of the Week". First telecast December 5, 1972, The Couple Takes a Wife is a by-the-numbers screwball comedy with a spirited all-TV cast. Career-minded couple Bill Bixby and Paula Prentiss Read More

Born to Win

Actors: George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: Born to Win is the grimly ironic title of this jet-black comedy about heroin addicts. George Segal plays Jay Jay, an ex-hairdresser who struggles to support his expensive drug habit. To avoid arrest, Jay Jay turns "narc," informing on his fellow junkies. Eventually Jay Jay's sense of self-hatred Read More

Catch-22

Actors: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Jon Voight

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing Read More

Move

Actors: Elliott Gould, Paula Prentiss, Geneviève Waïte, Joe Silver

Synopsis: This humorless comedy finds Hiram Jaffe (Elliott Gould) earning a living as a pornography writer and dog walker to the rich in New York. When he and wife Dolly (Paula Prentiss) decide to move to a new apartment, the problems cause Hiram to blur the line between his fantasy writing and reality. Read More

He & She: Season 03

Actors: Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jack Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, Hamilton Camp, Harold Gould

He & She: Season 02

Actors: Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jack Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, Hamilton Camp, Harold Gould

He & She: Season 01

Actors: Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jack Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, Hamilton Camp, Harold Gould

What's New Pussycat?

Actors: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss

Synopsis: A notorious womanizer, fashion editor Michael James (Peter O'Toole) decides to seek the help of a psychiatrist when he begins to feel that his inability to commit to a relationship is adversely affecting his personal life. Desperate to remain faithful to his fiancée Carole (Romy Schneider) Read More

In Harm's Way

Actors: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Dana Andrews, Paula Prentiss

Synopsis: In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell Read More

Looking for Love

Actors: Connie Francis, Jim Hutton, Susan Oliver, Joby Baker, Barbara Nichols, George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Danny Thomas, Johnny Carson

Synopsis: Popular singer Connie Francis stars in this romantic musical-comedy as Libby Caruso, an aspiring young entertainer who yearns for the attention of handsom Paul Davis (Jim Hutton). Though at first Paul is not interested in her, Libby soon wins him over. Upon catching him, however, Libby changes her Read More

The World of Henry Orient

Actors: Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth, Phyllis Thaxter, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Decked out with another of his American accents, Peter Sellers plays self-centered concert pianist Henry Orient. While Henry's active libido sends him off on pursuit of married woman Paula Prentiss, a pair of preteen boarding-school chums, played by Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth, worship Orient Read More

Man's Favorite Sport?

Actors: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, John McGiver, Charlene Holt

Synopsis: Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) is a super salesman of sporting goods who sells fishing equipment but knows nothing about the sport. Roger's boss Cadwalader (John McGiver) gets an idea from publicity director Abigail (Paula Prentiss) to enter him in a fishing contest, and the inept angler has a Read More

Follow the Boys

Actors: Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Dany Robin, Janis Paige, Russ Tamblyn

Synopsis: Follow the Boys attempts to recapture the box-office magic of 1960's Where the Boys Are; sometimes it succeeds. Returning from the earlier film are Connie Francis and Paula Prentiss, here cast as Bonnie Pulaski and Toni Denham, tourists on the French Riviera. Together with their Gallic friend Read More

Bachelor in Paradise

Actors: Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss

Synopsis: Bob Hope was in the first stages of his cinematic decline when he starred in Bachelor in Paradise. Hope plays a "romance expert" who is contracted to write an expose on the sexual habits of suburban California housewives. For research purposes, he moves into a subdivision called Paradise Read More

The Honeymoon Machine

Actors: Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Dean Jagger, Jack Mullaney

Synopsis: Just a few years before The Great Escape would catapult Steve McQueen to stardom, the charismatic actor played the lead, Lt. Fergie Howard, in this light romantic farce involving the computers on a Navy ship. Lt. Howard is playing poker on the good ship El Mira when he gets a brilliant idea. Why Read More

The Horizontal Lieutenant

Actors: Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Miyoshi Umeki, Jim Backus

Synopsis: Although the talented cast in this uninspired comedy do the best they can with their lines, nothing quite brings The Horizontal Lieutenant to an upright, stand-up-and-take-notice presence. Paula Prentiss as Lt. Molly Blue and Jim Hutton as Lt. Merle Wye are once again paired, this time as officers Read More

Where the Boys Are

Actors: Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, Barbara Nichols

Synopsis: Yvette Mimeux, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis, and Dolores Hart star in this frothy teen romance-drama as attractive co-eds who take off from Midwest colleges on the annual spring break to land in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida -- where the boys are. There are plenty of parties, booze, and sex to keep Read More