"One day during shooting," she told People in 1976, "I just climbed up the ropes to the catwalk and started walking the beams. However, on the set of that film she had a nervous breakdown. She also had a strong supporting role in What's New, Pussycat? (1965) with Peter Sellers. She had notable roles in The World of Henry Orient (1964) and In Harm's Way (1965) and made a cameo as herself in Looking for Love (1964). Prentiss appeared on stage in a production of As You Like It in 1963 at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Hawks would later say: "Paula Prentiss was good, but she couldn't remember what she was doing from one shot to the next. Howard Hawks cast her as the female lead opposite Rock Hudson in Man's Favorite Sport? (1963) at Universal, her first film outside MGM. Hutton and Prentiss were also meant to be in Follow the Boys (1963), a Where the Boys Are-style comedy, but he dropped out, and so Prentiss' co-star became Russ Tamblyn. They were the two tallest male and female contract players at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was a hit and response to Prentiss and Hutton was very favorable, so MGM decided to reteam them in three more comedies, promoting them as a new William Powell and Myrna Loy: The Honeymoon Machine (1961) with Steve McQueen, Bachelor in Paradise (1961) with Bob Hope, and The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962). Prentiss leapt to fame playing the role of Tuggle in Where the Boys Are (1960). While attending Northwestern she was discovered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was offered a film contract. In 1958, while studying drama at Northwestern University, she met future husband Richard Benjamin, who impressed her with his sophistication and height (he was taller than she was). She attended Lamar High School in Houston, Texas. īefore high school, Paula, who grew to 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m), was always the tallest person in class. She had a younger sister, Ann Prentiss, who was also an actress. Her father was of Sicilian descent, and Prentiss was raised Roman Catholic. Ragusa, a social sciences professor at San Antonio's University of the Incarnate Word. Prentiss was born Paula Ragusa in San Antonio, Texas, the elder daughter of Paulene (née Gardner) and Thomas J. She is best known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are (1960), What's New Pussycat? (1965), Catch-22 (1970), The Parallax View (1974), and The Stepford Wives (1975).įrom 1967 to 1968, Prentiss co-starred with her husband Richard Benjamin in the CBS sitcom He & She, for which she received a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Paula Prentiss (née Ragusa born March 4, 1938) is an American actress.
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