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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUSSYCAT. A book clerk (Alan Alda), who thinks himself an author, and a prostitute (Diana Sands), who considers herself a model, come to grips with each other and themselves in Bill Manhoff's screeching comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 5, 1965 | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...PUSSYCAT. Diana Sands and Alan Alda rough each other up with steady hilarity in Bill Manhoff's sexy and sassy rendition of the war between the sexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 8, 1965 | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff fills every round with comic impact in this verbal slugfest. pitting a fiery, sexy shrew. Diana Sands, against a self-righteous bookstore clerk, Alan Alda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 1, 1965 | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff fills every round with comic impact in this verbal slugfest, pitting a fiery, sexy shrew, Diana Sands, against a self-righteous bookstore clerk, Alan Alda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 25, 1964 | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...want to tax your brain, then go to The Owl and the Pussycat (at the ANTA Theatre). This two-person comedy by Bill Manhoff is a chain of spats and reunions between an evicted prostitute and the would-be writer she descends upon. It has its share of clever lines; but the show's great virtue is the transcendentally brilliant performance by young Diana Sands. Hitherto mainly admired for her power in serious drama, she shows here that comedy is just as much her forte. Or, in this case, fortissimo--for she bulldozes her way right through the show with...

Author: By Caldwell Titcome, | Title: What's Good on the New York Stage? | 12/16/1964 | See Source »

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