"Consider, however, that multiple actors have won more than one Oscar. (Emma Stone, one of this year's best actress nominees, won twice in the past decade.) Only a single cat, meanwhile, has twice won the Patsy the Picture Animal Top Star of the Year. (The award, given by the American Humane Association, not to be confused with the Humane Society, was discontinued in 1986.) That cat is Orangey, the subject of a small retrospective at New York City's Metrograph cinema."
"Orangey features heavily in the film's climax, when Holly releases her pet into an alley as she prepares to leave town, only to have Paul (George Peppard) rush to retrieve him. It completes a running thread that Cat is a part of Holly's wildness as well as her potential domestication. What better animal, of course, than one equally prone to draping himself over his makeshift mistress and making yowling leaps around her apartment?"
"including a Brooklyn baseball team. This sounds like a proto-Air Bud there's nothing in the rulebook that says a cat can't own a baseball team! but Rhubarb appears to have been made with adults at least nominally in mind. It's a 50s screwball comedy, which is to say it's pokier than its classic-era counterparts from a decade earlier, and feels padded out (i"
Orangey the cat twice won the Patsy, the Picture Animal Top Star of the Year, an award given by the American Humane Association and discontinued in 1986. Orangey appears in Breakfast at Tiffany's as the nameless Cat, a pet of Holly Golightly who embodies her wildness and potential domestication and features in the film's climax. Orangey's earlier, larger role was in Rhubarb, a 1950s screwball comedy about a cat inheriting an eccentric rich man's estate and a Brooklyn baseball team. New York City's Metrograph is presenting a small retrospective of Orangey's films, offering a wider variety of titles beyond the famous Hepburn classic.
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