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Sex Kittens Go to College
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Wikipedia article
'Sex Kittens Go to College' (a.k.a. 'Beauty and the Robot') is a 1960 American comedy film by Allied Artists Pictures, produced and directed by Albert Zugsmith and starring Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld and Mijanou Bardot. The film was also released in adult theaters with an additional nine-minute dream sequence showcasing the robot Sam Thinko with striptease dancers.
Plot
Collins College's administrators are expecting new professor Dr. Mathilda West, who holds 13 degrees and speaks 18 languages.
Dr. West, a buxom blonde, has an effect on everybody, from public relations director George Barton, who is the boyfriend of jealous dean Myrtle Carter, to football star Woo Woo Grabowski, who becomes nervous around beautiful women, including student Jody, who loves him.
A campus computer, affectionately known as Thinko, has a knack for knowing the future, including winning lottery numbers and race horses. A hoodlum, Legs Rafertino, comes looking for Thinko, thinking that it is a bookie, while foreign exchange student Suzanne tries to interview Legs for her thesis.
Barton exposes that Dr. West was once the stripper known as Tallahassee Tassel Tosser. The school's primary benefactor, Admiral Wildcat MacPherson, is concerned. Dr. West defends her former occupation and even provides a tassel demonstration that hypnotizes several of the men.
Woo Woo wins enough money on Thinko's gambling advice to marry Jody and buy a car. Myrtle dyes her hair blond and woos Wildcat MacPherson. Not wanting to stay where she is not wanted, Dr. West prepares to leave town, only to have Barton steal a fire engine and race to catch up with her.
Cast
* Mamie Van Doren as Dr. Mathilda West
* Tuesday Weld as Jody
* Mijanou Bardot as Suzanne
* John Carradine as Professor Watts
* Jackie Coogan as Wildcat MacPherson
* Babe London as Miss Cadwallader
* Pamela Mason as Dr. Myrtle Carter
* Martin Milner as George Barton
* Louis Nye as Dr. Zorch
* Mickey Shaughnessy as Boomie
* Allan Drake as Legs Raffertino
* Conway Twitty as himself
* Vampira as Etta Toodie
* Norman Grabowski as Woo Woo Grabowski
* Charles Chaplin Jr. as Fire chief (Uncredited)
* Harold Lloyd Jr. as Policeman (Uncredited)
Production
The film was known during production as 'Teacher Versus Sexpot'."Entertainment: Zugsmith Success Story Is Unusual" 'Los Angeles Times' 28 Nov 1959: 12.
The part of Thinko the robot was played by an actual robot, Elektro, built by Westinghouse in 1937.[http://www.worldsfaircommunity.org/index.php?showtopic=8887 WorldsFairCommunity]
See also
* List of American films of 1960
References
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