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Rhubarb(1951 film) |
Rhubarb is a 1951 comedy "Screwball-noir" film directed by Arthur Lubin starring Orangey, Jan Sterling and Ray Milland.
Synopsis
The film concerns the consequences when a rich eccentric bequeaths ownership of a baseball team to a cat named Rhubarb. A millionaire finds a stray cat and takes him into his home, making him his one true friend. The millionaire dies and his will leaves all of his millions, and a professional baseball team, to the cat, played by Orangey.
When the team finds out they are owned by a cat they protest. Their publicist Eric Yeager (Millard) convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly, played by Jan Sterling, seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for poor Rhubarb including gangsters and thwarted romances
Orangey was also known for his performance as "Cat" (the poor slob without a name) in Blake Edwards' film Breakfast at Tiffany's. He won Patsy Awards (Picture Animal Top Star of the Year, an animal actor's version of an Oscar) for his appearances in both Rhubarb and Breakfast at Tiffany's, the only cat so far to win more than once.
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