She also appeared in several motion pictures, including Cat People with Malcolm McDowell.

In March 1982, the month before Paul Schrader's film Cat People came out, Bowie's title song, " Cat People ( Putting Out Fire )", was released as a single, becoming a minor US hit and entering the UK top 30.

Val Lewton also produced a series of atmospheric and influential small-budget horror films, some of the more famous examples being Cat People, Isle of the Dead and The Body Snatcher.

The titles of these films were often imposed on Lewton by the studio, but Cat People ( 1942 ), I Walked with a Zombie ( 1943 ) rise above this limitation.

* ESP, the acronym for " Edd Smith's People " and " Edd Smith Place " in " The Pirate's Chest " bookstore in the fictional work The Cat Who Went Bananas honoring the bibliophile character Eddington Smith ( volume 27 of the Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun )

An early description of the opossum comes from explorer John Smith, who wrote in Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion in 1608 that " An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat.

Werewolves were introduced in films during this period, and similar creatures were presented in Cat People.

He got his first credited directing job in 1944 by replacing the original director on the stylish horror film The Curse of the Cat People, for Hollywood horror producer Val Lewton.

Cat People may refer to:

* Cat People ( 1942 film ), a horror film starring Simone Simon

* Cat People ( 1982 film ), a remake of the 1942 film starring Nastassja Kinski

* Cat People ( Putting Out Fire ), a song by David Bowie and the title song from the 1982 film

* Cat People ( comics ), a fictional humanoid species from the Marvel Comics universe

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Tex Avery, for whom Clampett worked as an animator in the mid-1930s, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy ( in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller ) and The Cat That Hated People ( where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e. g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying " Mammy, mammy ", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland ).

Lewton's Cat People is clearly the inspiration behind an early Shields-Amiel film.

Also during this period, Cliff released a cover of Cat Stevens ' " Wild World " as a single, but it was not included on his Wonderful World, Beautiful People album.

In 1982 he wrote the soundtrack of the movie Cat People, including the hit single " Putting Out Fire " featuring David Bowie.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

There was a return of Billy the Cat inside, as well as a new Super School strip by Lew Stringer.

The following year, Treasures, an album of covers of 1960s and ' 70s hits was released, and featured a diverse collection of material, including songs by Mac Davis, Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell.

Elvis Presley was a prominent player of the latter genre and was known early in his career as the " Hillbilly Cat ".

The captains of these ships — Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout on the Gouden Cath ( Golden Cat ) and Jacob de Gouwenaer on the Orangienboom ( Orange Tree )— named it Mr. Joris Eylant after the Dutch cartographer Joris Carolus who was on board and mapped the island.

The magazine also ran a series of cartoons called 101 Uses for a John Major ( based on a comic book of some ten years earlier, called 101 Uses for a Dead Cat ), in which Major was illustrated serving a number of bizarre purposes, such as a train-spotter's anorak.

The first Internet talker was Cat Chat in 1990.

Among them was the ballad " The First Cut is the Deepest " ( originally a Cat Stevens song ), which became her biggest radio hit since " All I Wanna Do.

The image of a Felix the Cat doll, rotating on a turntable, was broadcast for 2 hours every day for several years, as new technology was being tested by the engineers.

" The Black Cat " was first published in the August 19, 1843 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

The Black Cat was read by avant-garde performer Diamanda Galás.

*" The Black Cat " was adapted and performed with " The Cask of Amontillado " as Poe, Times Two: Twin tales of mystery, murder ... and mortar -- a double-bill of short, one-man plays written and performed by Greg Oliver Bodine.

*" The Black Cat " was adapted into a 7-page comic strip in Yellowjack Comics # 1 ( 1944 ).

Another adaptation, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was produced by Joseph Shaftel Productions ( distributed by Fox-Rank productions ) in 1972, and is felt by many to be the most faithful adaptation to the original novel, with the exception of the omitted scene with the Cheshire Cat ( Roy Kinnear ) replaced by Tweedledum and Tweedledee ( in a scene which remains faithful to their respective scene from Alice Through the Looking Glass ).

By the time the series ended in 1927, its focus was more on the animated characters and in particular a cat named Julius who resembled Felix the Cat, rather than the live-action Alice.

In the Super Nintendo game Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill, London was noted as the home town of mid-boss Wigglearms Williams.

In his words, " literally and literarily I was saved " when The Black Cat accepted his story " A Thousand Deaths ," and paid him $ 40 — the " first money I ever received for a story.

Although no individual was charged with carrying out the attack, suffragettes were blamed because of the passage of the recent Cat and Mouse Act.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955.

Although The Flowering Peach by Clifford Odets was the preferred choice of the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1955 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was at first considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., chairman of the Board, had seen Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and thought it worthy of the drama prize.