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Did this cat appear in other movies/tv shows?

posted 11 years ago by qatmom
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There is a gorgeous apple-headed sealpoint Siamese who appears in two episodes of Perry Mason from about the same time period. I am wondering if this is the same cat.

[–] charcas67 11 years ago

There's a picture on the net from a 1958 issue of Life Magazine of Kim Novak posing with all the cats who played Pyewacket...I guess they had different cats for different scenes, depending on what the cat was needed to do. So the Perry Mason siamesse could have been a Pyewacket. I know Kim got to keep one of the Pyes as a pet after shooting ended.

[–] sandvette9 10 years ago

I heard that Pyewacket was her cat even before the movie.

[–] PussyCrusher_Principal 9 years ago

Definitely a beautiful cat...

OT, but I ask the same question every time I see a wire haired terrier in a film - "Is that Asta?". He was in The Thin Man series, and The Awful Truth. But I've seen dogs in later films and I try to figure out if there's any way he could still have been alive in the later film. He was so beautiful.

[–] McCartney42 9 years ago

My mother had an identical cat who she named "Pyewacket" when I was a little kid. When I was around 11 or 12 years old and when I saw the movie, that's when I was told by my mother how the cat got her name. It was pretty cool actually.