Paula Prentiss's father was of Sicilian descent, and Prentiss was raised Roman Catholic.
17 Facts About Paula Prentiss
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Paula Prentiss had a younger sister, Ann Prentiss, who was an actress.
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Paula Prentiss leapt to fame playing the role of Tuggle in Where the Boys Are.
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Hutton and Paula Prentiss were meant to be in Follow the Boys, a Where the Boys Are-style comedy, but he dropped out, and so Paula Prentiss' co-star became Russ Tamblyn.
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Paula Prentiss appeared on stage in a production of As You Like It in 1963 at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park.
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Paula Prentiss had notable roles in The World of Henry Orient and In Harm's Way and made a cameo as herself in Looking for Love.
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Paula Prentiss returned to films with a small role in Catch-22.
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Paula Prentiss had the female lead in Move with Elliott Gould and Born to Win with George Segal.
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Paula Prentiss was one of the leads in Last of the Red Hot Lovers with Alan Arkin.
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Paula Prentiss was the female lead in Crazy Joe and had a small but pivotal part in The Parallax View with Warren Beatty.
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Paula Prentiss was second lead in The Stepford Wives, alongside Katharine Ross.
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Paula Prentiss was in Having Babies II, Friendships, Secrets and Lies, and Top of the Hill.
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Paula Prentiss had a starring role in The Black Marble, but it was not widely seen.
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Paula Prentiss did Saturday the 14th with her husband and was in director Billy Wilder's last film, Buddy Buddy, with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
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Paula Prentiss guest starred on TV shows like Murder, She Wrote and Burke's Law.
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Except for brief cameo roles, Paula Prentiss had not appeared in a feature film for more than 30 years, until 2016's I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, a horror film directed by Oz Perkins.
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Paula Prentiss has been married to actor-director Richard Benjamin since 1961.