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The Moon Is Blue (film)

The Moon Is Blue is a 1953 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring William Holden, David Niven, and Maggie McNamara. Written by F. Hugh Herbert and based on his 1951 play of the same title, the film is about a young woman who meets an architect on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and quickly turns his life upside down. Herbert's play had also been a huge success in Germany, and Preminger decided to simultaneously film in English and German, using the same sets but different casts. The German-language film version is Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach.

Plot
A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the top of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. There she meets Donald's upstairs neighbors, his ex-fiancée Cynthia and her father, roguish David Slater.

Both men are determined to seduce the young woman, but they quickly discover that Patty is more interested in engaging in spirited discussions about the pressing moral and sexual issues of the day than in surrendering her virginity to either of them. After resisting their amorous advances throughout the night, Patty leaves. The next day she returns to the Empire State Building, where she finds Donald, who has missed her and worried all night about her. He declares his love for her and proposes marriage to her.

Cast

 * William Holden as Donald Gresham
 * David Niven as David Slater
 * Maggie McNamara as Patty O'Neill
 * Tom Tully as Michael O'Neill, Patty's father
 * Dawn Addams as Cynthia Slater, David's daughter
 * Fortunio Bonanova as Television Performer
 * Gregory Ratoff as Taxi Driver
 * Hardy Krüger and Johanna Matz, the stars of the German version, appear as the young tourist couple waiting to use the coin-operated telescope at the top of the Empire State Building, cameo roles which Holden and McNamara play in the German version.

Play
Otto Preminger had staged the 1951 Broadway production of F. Hugh Herbert's play at Henry Miller's Theatre, with Barbara Bel Geddes, Donald Cook, and Barry Nelson in the lead roles. It had a successful run of 924 performances, from March 8, 1951 (almost the worst year on record for the Broadway stage, according to The Billboard) until May 30, 1953.

A third, West Coast, touring company announced shows at the La Jolla Playhouse from July 1 through July 6, 1952, starring David Niven and Diana Lynn, and continuing on a tour scheduled to include Los Angeles (Biltmore), San Bernardino, San Francisco, and other cities joining the Chicago touring company.

On July 8, 1952, producer/director Otto Preminger opened the West Coast production at the United Nations Theater in San Francisco for a three-month run, with David Niven as David Slater, Diana Lynn as Patty O'Neill, and Scott Brady as Donald Gresham in the lead roles.

Production
Preminger contracted with United Artists to finance and distribute a screen adaptation over which he would have complete control. Preminger cast David Niven over the objection of studio executives, who felt that the actor's career was in decline. He deferred his producer's and director's salaries in exchange for 75% of the film's profits.

Maggie McNamara, who appeared as Patty O'Neill in the Chicago production of the play, and briefly in New York, received her first screen role and the film's last casting.

Herbert's play had been a huge success in Germany, and Preminger decided to film simultaneously in English and German, using the same sets but different casts. The director estimated this method would increase the filming schedule by only eight to ten days and production costs by only 10 to 15 percent. The budget for both films was $373,445. It is estimated that deferred costs came to nearly $500,000 but in return United Artists gave the producers Herbert and Preminger 75% of the profits, 20% of which they gave to William Holden.

Motion Picture Production Code objections
Herbert's play was first submitted to the MPAA/PCA for approval by Paramount Pictures in 1951, with Samuel J. Briskin as producer. On June 26, 1951, the office of MPAA censor Joseph Breen sent a letter back, stating that the script was unacceptable under the Motion Picture Production Code. Later, on July 13, 1951, the office of Joseph Breen contacted Herbert and advised him his screenplay was in violation of the Production Code because of its "light and gay treatment of the subject of illicit sex and seduction." On December 26, Preminger submitted a revised draft of the script which, due to numerous lines of dialogue exhibiting "an unacceptably light attitude towards seduction, illicit sex, chastity, and virginity", was rejected on January 2, 1952. Contrary to later legend, the words "virgin", "mistress", and "pregnant", all of which had been in the original play's dialogue, were not singled out as objectionable. On January 6, Preminger and Herbert advised the Breen office they disagreed with its decision and would film the screenplay without further changes.

In a display of solidarity, United Artists heads Arthur B. Krim and Robert S. Benjamin amended their contract with Preminger and deleted the clause requiring him to deliver a film that would be granted a Production Code seal of approval. After ten days of rehearsals for each of his casts, Preminger began principal photography of both English- and German-language versions of the film on January 21, filming an English scene and then its German equivalent in quick succession. Preminger later stated he much preferred The Moon Is Blue to Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach because he felt that the psychology of the plot did not translate well. Filming was completed in twenty-four days and it previewed in Pasadena on April 8. Two days later, Breen notified Preminger the film would not be approved. Outraged at Breen's "unwarranted and unjustified attack" on "a harmless story", the director joined forces with UA executives to appeal the decision with the MPAA board of directors, who ruled against them.

Distribution
United Artists decided to release the film without the PCA seal of approval, the first major American film to do so, initially in major urban markets where they hoped its success would encourage exhibitors in rural areas to book the film. The film premiered for an "adults only" audience at the Woods Theatre in Chicago on June 22 and opened at the United Nations Theater in San Francisco on June 25. On June 30, Variety reported that three major nationwide theater chains were willing to exhibit the film, and it went into general release on July 8, and was in the top five box-office successes of that week. (In its year-end report, Variety said the film had ranked #15 at the box office with a gross of $3.5 million.)

It was banned in Jersey City, New Jersey as "indecent and obscene". Theaters in many small towns in the United States restricted audiences to men or women separately. Kansas, Ohio, and Maryland also banned the film, and Preminger and United Artists decided to bring suit in a Maryland court. On December 7, 1953, Judge Herman Moser reversed the State Censor Board. In his ruling, he called the film "a light comedy telling a tale of wide-eyed, brash, puppy-like innocence." Preminger and UA then appealed in Kansas (Holmby Productions, Inc. v. Vaughn), but the Supreme Court of Kansas upheld the state board of review's decision to ban the film. Determined to win, the director and studio took their case to the Supreme Court of the United States, which overturned the finding of the Kansas Supreme Court on October 24, 1955. "'the question here is neither one of great art nor even of particularly good taste. It is rather a question of whether American movies are continually to be hamstrung by rules that confine picture themes, picture morals, and picture language to what is deemed fit for children, or for childlike mentalities. — Saturday Review, 27 June 1953.'"

The film's success was instrumental in weakening the influence of the Production Code. On June 27, 1961, the PCA granted both The Moon Is Blue and The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Preminger's similarly controversial release, the seals of approval they initially withheld.

Critical reception
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times observed it "is not outstanding, either as a romance or as film. The wit of Mr. Herbert . . . is turned almost wholly on his freeness with the startling idea or phrase, as glibly tossed off (for the most part) by a young lady who appears a wide-eyed child. And Otto Preminger's lifting of the play from the stage to the screen is much too rigidly respectful of its conversational form. As a consequence, the movement is restricted and the talk is exceedingly long. At times, it gets awfully tedious, considering its limited range." Variety called it "an entertaining adult comedy", which "constantly reminds of its origin, being more a filmed play than a motion picture. But it's still entertaining theatre, whether behind the footlights or on celluloid." Harrison's Reports called it "vastly amusing adult entertainment", adding that "even though the material is spicy and has its delicate moments, it has been handled so adroitly that it is always amusing without ever becoming offensive." Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post called it "Flip, frolicsome fun", adding, "Otto Preminger's direction of Herbert's own screen play follows the stage action fairly closely, resulting in occasionally static splotches but the feel of flip sophistication is achieved." Edwin Schallert of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "this film is likely to induce a goodly share of laughter and have a special appeal to feminine audiences", but thought it "talks too much for complete satisfaction as a picture." The Chicago Tribune wrote that the film was "deftly constructed and moves along at a bright, brisk pace, peppered with some remarkably funny dialog, which sends audiences into such guffaws that some of the best lines are drowned in a sea of laughter." John McCarten of The New Yorker faulted the film for "all sorts of slowdowns ... to permit the principals to give out with their views on life, love and so on. However, as the photograph of a pleasant little comedy, the picture has some merit." The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "quite pleasant entertainment;" Time magazine also found the film to be pleasant.

The Catholic Legion of Decency gave the movie a "C", "Condemned" rating, despite giving the original play a milder "B", "Unobjectionable for adults" rating. The Catholic Parent-Teacher League condemned the movie. Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York and James Francis Cardinal McIntyre of Los Angeles urged Catholics to avoid the film.

Cardinal Spellman denounced the film on 24 June 1953 as "an occasion of sin" violating "standards of morality and decency." He said, "This picture was avowedly produced in defiance of the system of self-regulation which the motion picture industry itself has maintained for more than two decades. The producer refused to make any revision of the film and openly spurns the code of the American motion picture industry. I call the attention of Catholics to the pledge of the Legion of Decency, which emphasizes the obligation to avoid attendance at theatres that flaunt indecency by exhibiting such a picture."

In 1992 Pacific Film Archive called it "An innocuous sex comedy that talks about bedding down but never turns a sheet" And observed: "the furor surrounding the film leaves the impression that a full-scale orgy had occurred."

In his review of the DVD release of the film, Tim Purtell of Entertainment Weekly called the film a "trifle" that "seems overly talky and slight".

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 46% rating based on nine reviews.

Preservation
The Academy Film Archive preserved The Moon Is Blue in 2006.

In popular culture
In 1982, the film was the focus of the M*A*S*H episode, "The Moon Is Not Blue". Having heard of the film's controversy, Hawkeye Pierce and B.J. Hunnicutt attempt to get a copy of the film shipped to the 4077th in Korea. But when they finally see the film, Hawkeye and B.J. are greatly let down by its lack of promised sexually-explicit content. Hawkeye complains that he's never seen a cleaner movie in his life, and when Father Mulcahy points out that one of the characters did say "virgin", Hawkeye responds, "That's because everyone was!"

Otto Preminger's brother Ingo Preminger was producer of the theatrical version of MASH. The Moon Is Blue was released nineteen days before the armistice for the Korean War was signed.

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Talk:Illithid

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Article merged: See old talk-page for Ilsensine here. -Drilnoth (talk) 21:42, 2 November 2008 (UTC) Article merged: See old talk-page for Maanzecorian here. -Drilnoth (talk) 21:42, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Illithid
Not that I'm some sort of D&D playing nerd or anything, but this is much more commonly known as illithids, IMO. Tuf-Kat
 * I've moved it. Tuf-Kat

There are no mind flayers or illithids in ADOM, nor any creature with similar brain-sucking powers. Are you sure that they exist in "many other roguelike games"? Ekaterin.

 * Angband and Nethack have mind flayers, as presumably do most of their numerous descendants. Salsa Shark 08:20, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

How come no one mentioned Forgotten realms? Drizzt Do'Urden has both battled illithids and been captured by them. Samael the Artificer 14:30, 7 September 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Samael the Artificer (talk • contribs)

Trademark infringement?
Wouldn't this article violate the Wizards of the Coast trademark on "Illithid"? Vaxalon 18:06, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

The Illithid is included in the system resource document, and is considered open game content under the OGL, as far as I know. I don't think there's any infringment here, because Wizards of the Coast has already given permission for the Illithid's use in stuff other than their own. Riggermantis 10:25, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

The Illithid is not considered Open Game Content, and is not included in the System Reference Document. It is one of the monsters considered Product Identity by Wizards and, as such, is protected content under the OGL. --68.237.14.235 03:39, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm pretty sure if Wikipedia were to publish a d20 book with illithids in it under the OGL, then it would be a violation and WotC would care, but I doubt an article meant to answer the question of "What the hell is that?" violates anything. MasterGrazzt 07:55, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Why was ny reference to Mindflayers running a secret cabal at Cravath, Swaine & Moore removed? There is a fair amount of convincing evidence leading to this conclusion. I am not a tin-hat crazy; this stuff i for real.

 * Because CS&M is a real-world entity, and illithids are make-believe. Therefore... Yeah, you're pretty much the definition of a tin-hatter.

Cleanup
Well, I am a "D&D playing nerd". Gave the page a quick revision. I think I got most of the grammar, but someone should run another set of eyes over it.

Another thing: this page has quite a bit of info on these guys that's not in any of the core books, especially concerning their lore and the mechanics of "ceremorphosis". Sure would be nice to get sources for this - or at least someone who can back this up. --STGM 09:50, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Info on Ceremorphosis can be found in the Fiend Folio, I beleive, under the entry for half-illithid. --Durahan 6 December 2005

Most of the info here can be found in 'Lords of Madness: The Book of Abberations", including detailed information on ceremorphosis. Quinn 202.172.123.185 11:07, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Morse code?
It states that their system of lines felt by tentacles is similar to morse code, but wouldn't it be closer to braille? --Psyphics 19:24, 30 October 2005 (UTC).

76.214.149.244 (talk) 18:41, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Interesting speculation - never thought of it that way. Wouldn't be good to add to the article, though. 71.194.32.252 (talk) 02:37, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.46.67.158 (talk) 16:39, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * OK...? 204.153.84.10 (talk) 16:52, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Abheration
Could someone with the Book of Abherrations get some info on these Illithids/M ind flayers, please?

 * I don't quite get what you want. There's enough info for someone unversed in D&D to figure out exactly what the illithid are, and that's the sort of thing Wikipedia exists for. MasterGrazzt 07:58, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Incomplete references
see WikiProject Role-playing games Robbstrd 22:36, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Monstrous Compendium 4 Dragonlance Appendix (TSR, 1989).
 * Dawn of the Overmind module
 * The Strategic Review #1, (TSR, 1975).

 * The Dragonlance MC, in which the Yaggol appears, has David Cook and Jon Winter listed under "design concept", and Bruce A. Heard listed as "design coordinator". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.2.240.130 (talk • contribs).
 * I'd go with "Heard, Bruce A, et al." -Robbstrd 09:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Try again, please

 * Gygax, Gary? The Strategic Review #1, (TSR, 1975).

Putting a question mark after uncertain parts of a reference is the lazy way of writing refs. Please find out the correct information (Google is your friend). Furthermore, since the SR is a periodical, you should list the title of the article the mind flayer appears in.-Robbstrd 09:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Zoidberg?
Nothing serious, but anyone noticed how similar zoidberg is to a mindflayer/illithid in terms of head appearance and eating mannerism? Jackpot Den 14:15, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Zoidberg doesn't eat brains, and the tentacles are arranged differentl. Also, Illithids have an endoskeleton whereas zoidberg is crab/lobsterlike, with a shell. The only thing going is the number of tentacles. 82.31.111.204 (talk) 16:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Image
It seems that some consider that image of the cover of Lords of Madness to be a proper picture of an Illithid and so they are going to delete the other, much better and more clear image that has been uploaded as Image:Illithid.jpg. Can we have a consensus on which image better illustrates a Illithid? After a week, the decision will be out of our hands. The choice is: I choose B. -- Lilwik 11:20, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * A: Image:Lords of Madness book cover.jpg
 * B: Image:Illithid.jpg.
 * We shouldn't be using a copyrighted book cover to illustrate an article that isn't about that book. Image B seems fine. --McGeddon 12:11, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * First off, polling is not how concensus is achieved on Wikipedia. Second, image B is also copyrighted, has a disputed fair use rationale tag, AND has been deleted once before for use violations, IIRC. Use of book covers seems to be acceptable fair use throughout Wikipedia.--Robbstrd 21:38, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Who's polling? And have you looked at the reason for the disputed fair use rationale tag? The only reason it's fair use is disputed is because we already have another image that supposedly shows an Illithid. If we get rid of the book cover, the dispute goes away. Plus, is this article about the Illithid, or about a book? -- Lilwik 23:00, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Use of book covers might happen on Wikipedia, but it's not acceptable fair use - WP:NFC specifically mentions "Cover art from various items, for identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item", and specifically rules out "An image of a magazine cover, used only to illustrate the Wikipedia article on the person whose photograph is on the cover." --McGeddon 08:28, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * So you think that using Image:Illithid.jpg is fair use, then? It isn't. At one time, several D&D articles on Wikipedia featured such images, whether artwork from various sourcebooks (like the image in question) or photos of D&D minis. The vast majority have been deleted, due to having been deemed unacceptable for fair use.--Robbstrd 21:33, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Then why don't you explain why it's not fair use? (Aside from the free image, since you were saying it wasn't fair use before the free image appeared.) When you leave us hanging like that, we're likely to come to the conclusion that this case is different from those other images. After all this, is the Illithid article. Surely it is fair use to have one Illithid pictured in the Illithid article. Can you give an example that closely parallels this case where the image was deleted? There are a vast number of examples of articles that use nonfree images to give a picture of the thing they are talking about. -- Lilwik 02:46, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Item 1 of WP:NFC is that "non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose". If a user-drawn or out-of-copyright image would serve the exact same purpose as the copyrighted equivalent, we must go with the former. --McGeddon 10:11, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Suddenly, we have a third image to consider. This one is especially interesting because it is free. Therefore, I think it is clear that according to the fair use rules, we no longer have fair use for image A and we should use this one instead: -- Lilwik 20:23, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * C: Image:Mindflayer.jpg

Just use all of them. Who cares about copyright? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.107.157.46 (talk • contribs).
 * We. -- ReyBrujo 05:16, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Why? -- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.107.157.46 (talk • contribs).
 * WP:NFC. Welcome to Wikipedia. --McGeddon 09:58, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * They're just images, not real content like text. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.107.157.46 (talk • contribs).
 * Images are real content, and are protected by copyright law just as text is. --Pak21 10:02, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

It seems that we have a consensus to go with image C, the free one, since that is the only one the fair use policy will allow. I have removed the book cover. -- Lilwik 19:58, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Wow, that image looks incredibly stupid. I think you should use the book cover.--Yeerkalia 11:22, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, we don't have fair use for the book cover because we have this free image to use. However, the license for this image allows anyone to modify it, so long as attribution is preserved. Feel free to modify it and upload the new version, like Mindflayer2.jpg, with a link on the the image page to the original. That should satisfy the attribution part of the license, and if you've improved the image we will use your version. -- Lilwik 21:31, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

 * How about we delete the free image so we no longer have it and then we can use the book cover.--Yeerkalia 20:49, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Because that goes against the whole "free encyclopedia" thing we have here. — SheeEttin {T/C} 20:57, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

I for one, love the free image. It's reminiscent of the original Mind Flayer illustration in Monster Manual.66.77.144.5 (talk) 17:16, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, reminiscent of an era when the drawings were horrible. Surely there is someone that has drawn something less childlike and garish.

We need a better image does anyone have a free mind flayer picture? Tanderson11 (talk) 17:28, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, any fan-drawn image of an illithid would be a derivative work and, therefore, wouldn't be free. This is the best that we can do without using official art, which is of even more questionable fair-use. -Drilnoth (talk) 02:04, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Thoon
Should there be mention of the followers of Thoon (Monster Manual V) as a separate group of Illithids? The book makes it quite clear that they differ significantly from normal Illithids in motives and, in some cases, abilities. Xiphe 00:56, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * They're just part of the wonderful variety of illithid sects. (Boom-tish). But seriously, folks...that's not true in all settings. In Eberron, for example, they are actually closer than normal illithids to their true origins, since they've been back to their home plane far more recently. 137.166.68.65 (talk) 03:54, 3 November 2008 (UTC)Count Dorku

Yaggols
I don't know anything about dragonlance so I'm ignorant of yaggols, are they an illithid variant or should they be related creatures? Tanderson11 (talk) 14:53, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I just looked up yaggols on http://www.dlnexus.com/lexicon/15109.aspx and it doesn't mention illithids at all, they only look similar do we need them at all? Tanderson11 (talk) 15:00, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Off the top of my head, they are a related creature... but don't take my word for that; whenever possible, always go straight to the source. :) BOZ (talk) 15:00, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

The Adversary
Do we need this, we could list thousands of specific illithid related things, we want this article to be consise as possible, we don't need this clogging it up.Tanderson11 (talk) 15:39, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Darn, I keep forgetting to sign Tanderson11 (talk) 15:39, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It takes time to get used to doing that. :) Don't know the significance of the Adversary thing, as I don't currently have access to Dawn of the Overmind, but undoubtedly that part could be shortened and still get the point across. BOZ (talk) 16:21, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Right now I propose the adversary section for deletion, it is just not relevant enough. Tanderson11 (talk) 16:52, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Makes sense. -Drilnoth (talk) 02:08, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Religion
The bold sections about certain gods have to go, if we want we should create separate articles for the gods. Tanderson11 (talk) 17:01, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm going ahead and removing the god section and making a new article for the main illithid god (can't remember his name at this time) Tanderson11 (talk) 21:09, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd added in the god sections from a merge because the two articles were too short, but it does make sense for them to be separate. -Drilnoth (talk) 02:07, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Cythos
Whoever said illithids are inspired better step up to the plate and tell us how they know because we need citations. Tanderson11 (talk) 21:09, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Huh? -Drilnoth (talk) 02:10, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Possible refs?
, ???,  BOZ (talk) 20:26, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps Ctrl-Alt-Del should be added. Jhaagsma (talk) 22:39, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Cthulhu
How come nobody has even mentioned that the Illithid are basically wingless Cthulhus?? It's very unlikely that hte D&D creators just "happened" to imagine a creature that looks just like Cthulhu.--20-dude (talk) 07:24, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

well, hey... that image sucks
Anyone have a better image they can post instead of some 13 year old's deviantart crap on the article now?

Maanzecorian
I removed the uncited claim that Maanzecorian was the primary illithid deity prior to his death. (In my change notes I incorrectly cited "Monster Mythos (1992)", the correct title is actually Monster Mythology.) While it is possible that Maanzecorian's prominence was retconned at a later date, I cannot find anything supporting this claim in any 2e, 3e or 3.5e sources I have at hand (I have a lot). If Maanzecorian's level of godhood was indeed retconned, this retcon should be noted or at the very least cited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.191.61.94 (talk) 10:30, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

ORIGIN OF THE MIND FLAYERS
Publication history The Mind flayers which were created by Gary Gygax, did in fact thaat an inspiration for the Mind Flayers was in fact the cover painting of the book The Burrowers Beneath written by Brian Lumley.Ok thats fine but that book that the cover art is inpired by is in fact Cthulhu Mythos fan fiction so H.P. Lovecraft does  in fact deserve credit in this Wikipedia article for being the origin of the  cause if Mr.Gygax's inspiration because if it was not For him and his Cthulhu Mythos Mr.Lumley would not have been inspired to write that book.

<--REX — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.12.110.212 (talk • contribs)
 * "Fan fiction" and "inspired by" are not the same thing. "Fan fiction" is a non-professional writer taking someone else's copyright work and making their own stories with the same to minimally altered characters without any expectation of being published.  Illithids are not Cthulhu, and are only visually similar, thus they are only inspired by.  Ian.thomson (talk) 23:34, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

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Publication history Fictional aspects
 * for the original (white box) Dungeons & Dragons game (1976), wherein they are described as super-intelligent, man-shaped creatures of great (and lawful) evil, with tentacles that penetrate to the brain and draw it forth for food.
 * The article "The Sunset World" by Stephen Inniss in Dragon #150 (October 1989) presented a world that had been completely ravaged by mind flayers. The "Dragon's Bestiary" column, in the same issue and by the same author, described the illithidae, the strange inhabitants of this world.
 * The ulitharid, or "noble illithid" was introduced in the Dungeon adventure Thunder Under Needlespire by James Jacobs in Dungeon #24 (July/August 1990), and later included in the Monstrous Compendium Annual One (1994).
 * Monster Manual V (2007) introduced the concept of "thoon", a driving force (be it some alien god, outside philosophy, or other driving incentive) which has changed several mindflayers' world outlooks.
 * Illithidae: Illithidae are to mind flayers as less intelligent animals are to humans.  Known types include the cessirid, embrac, kigrid, and saltor. Dragon magazine once published a template for use in creating an illithidae creature, for use with the 1st Edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game.  They were updated in 3.5 in the Lords of Madness supplement.
 * Neothelid: If an illithid tadpole survives but fails to undergo ceremorphosis, it will eventually grow into an incredibly powerful worm-like creature with illithid tentacles at the forefront of its body and immense mental powers. An immature neothelid variant was also detailed in Dungeon magazine #81.
 * The origins of the illithids have been described in several conflicting stories offered in various D&D products, in past editions and in the current version of the game, which can be taken as successive retcons.
 * The 2nd Edition book The Illithiad suggests they may be from the Far Realm, an incomprehensible plane completely alien to the known multiverse. There is no mention of time travel in this theory. Instead, they emerged somewhere countless thousands of years ago, beyond the histories of many mortal races, and spread from one world to another, and another, and so on. It is explicitly stated in this book that the illithids appear in some of the most ancient histories of the most ancient races, even those that have no mention of other races.
 * The 4th Edition preview Wizards Presents Worlds and Monsters supports the claim that mind flayers originate from the Far Realm.
 * In these two differing versions of the story, much of the variance hinges upon a fictional text called The Sargonne Prophecies. The Illithiad described the Prophecies as misnamed, and that much of it sounds more like ancient myth than prophecy. Lords of Madness takes the name more literally, and states that The Sargonne Prophecies are in fact prophecy—or, perhaps more accurately, a history of the future.
 * Yet another version came from The Astromundi Cluster, a Spelljammer boxed set produced before The Illithiad. This version holds that the illithids are descended from the outcasts of an ancient human society that ruled the now-shattered world called Astromundi. The outcast humans eventually mutated, deep underground, into the mind flayers. (This boxed set also introduced the entity known as Lugribossk, who was depicted as a god of the Astromundi flayers then but was later retconned into a proxy of the god Ilsensine.) In the retconned history of the illithids found in either The Illithiad or Lords of Madness, the emergence of illithids in Astromundi becomes a freak occurrence due to the intervention of Ilsensine through its proxy, since the illithids of Astromundi have their own histories as emerging solely upon that world.
 * However, and whenever it occurred, when the illithids arrived in the Material Plane of the distant past, they immediately began to build an empire by enslaving many sentient creatures. They were very successful, and soon their worlds-spanning empire became the largest one the multiverse had ever seen. They had the power—in terms of psychic potency and the manpower of countless slaves—to fashion artificial worlds. One such world was this empire's capital, called Penumbra, a diskworld built around a star, which was a thousand years in the making. Such was their might that the Blood War paused as the demons and devils considered a truce to deal with the illithid empire.
 * Eventually, the primary slave race of the illithids developed resistance to the mental powers of their masters and revolted. Led by the warrior Gith, the rebellion spread to all the illithids' worlds, and the empire collapsed. The illithid race itself seemed doomed.
 * Dungeon #100 claims the original home of the gith forerunners was a world known as Pharagos. Currently it is described as, "an unremarkable Material-Plane world, a far cry from the hotbed of magical activity and divine intervention that is the Forgotten Realms campaign or the World of Greyhawk." Beneath the Wasting Desert on that world, however, is the petrified corpse of the long-dead patron deity of the ancestors of the gith races. As is recounted in most 1st and 2nd edition sources, the ancestors of the gith forerunners were a human civilization before being modified by countless generations of illithid breeding and profane science.

This edit removed a lot of info that appears to refer to primary sources directly in the prose. Above is some of that info which should be easier to verify, cite & restore if an editor has access to the older D&D books. Sariel Xilo (talk) 15:39, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Yes, I'm sure most of this would be simple enough to source. I think it was removed because that was easier than just trying to do the work, or just leaving it for someone else who could do it. BOZ (talk) 00:45, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

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Burr (novel)

Burr: A Novel is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal that challenges the traditional Founding Fathers iconography of United States history, by means of a narrative that includes a fictional memoir by Aaron Burr, in representing the people, politics, and events of the U.S. in the early 19th century. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1974.

Burr is chronologically the first book of the seven-novel series Narratives of Empire, with which Vidal examined, explored, and explained the imperial history of the United States; chronologically, the six other historical novels of the series are Lincoln (1984), 1876 (1976), Empire (1987), Hollywood (1990), Washington, D.C. (1967), and The Golden Age (2000).

Description
Burr portrays the eponymous anti-hero as a fascinating and honorable gentleman, and portrays his contemporary opponents as mortal men; thus, George Washington is an incompetent military officer, a general who lost most of his battles; Thomas Jefferson is a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and bribed witnesses in support of a false charge of treason against Burr, to whom he almost lost in the 1800 United States presidential election; and Alexander Hamilton is a bastard-born, over-ambitious opportunist whose rise was by General Washington's hand, until being fatally wounded in the 1804 Burr–Hamilton duel.

The enmities were established when, despite Burr's initial victory in the voting, the presidential election of 1800 was a tied vote in the Electoral College, between him and Thomas Jefferson. To break the tied electoral vote, the House of Representatives—dominated by Alexander Hamilton—voted thirty-six times, until they elected Jefferson, and by procedural default named Burr as the vice president.

The contemporary story of political intrigue occurs from 1833 to 1840, in the time of Jacksonian democracy, years after the treason trial. The narrator is Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, an ambitious young man working as a law clerk in Aaron Burr's New York City law firm. Charlie Schuyler is not from a politically-connected family, and is ambivalent about politics and about how law is practiced. Hesitant about taking the examination for admission to the bar, Schuyler works as a newspaper reporter while dreaming of becoming a successful writer so that he can emigrate to Europe.

Important to the intrigues of the plotters are the allegation that Vice President Martin Van Buren is the bastard son of Aaron Burr; the veracity or falsity of that allegation; and its usefulness in high-government politics. Because Van Buren is a strong candidate for the 1836 United States presidential election, his political enemies, especially newspaper publisher William Leggett, enlist Schuyler to glean personally embarrassing facts about Van Buren from the aged Burr, a septuagenarian in 1834.

Tempted with the promise of money, Schuyler considers authoring a pamphlet "proving" that Vice President Van Buren is Burr's son, which will end Van Buren's career. He becomes torn between honoring Burr, whom he admires, and betraying Burr for the cash that will enable him to take the woman he loves to Europe. At story's end, Schuyler has learned more than he expected about Burr, Van Buren, and his own character.

As in the novels Messiah (1954), Julian (1964), and Creation (1981), the colonial people, their times, and the places of Burr (1973) are presented through the memoirs of a character in the tale. Throughout the story, the narrative presents thematic parallels to The Memoirs of Aaron Burr (1837), co-written with Matthew Livingston Davis. Many of the incidents in Burr are historical: Thomas Jefferson was a slaver who fathered children with some of his slave women; the Continental Army General James Wilkinson was a double agent for the Kingdom of Spain; Alexander Hamilton regularly was challenged to duels; and Aaron Burr was tried for and acquitted of treason, consequent to the Burr Plot (1807).

In the "Afterword" to Burr, Vidal states that, in most instances, the actions and words of the historical characters represented are based upon their personal documents and historical records. Moreover, besides challenging the traditionalist, mythical iconography of the Founding Fathers of the United States, the most controversial aspect of the novel Burr is the unsubstantiated claim that Alexander Hamilton gossiped about Burr and his daughter, Theodosia, practicing incest—which character assassination supposedly led to their duel; killing Hamilton ended the public life of Aaron Burr.

Narrative frame
The novel comprises two storylines. One gives us Charles Schuyler's personal and professional perspectives on early mid-19th-century New York, and his coming to know the titular character Aaron Burr in his later, quieter years. The other gives us, by means of Burr's recollections as read and recorded by Schuyler, his experience of late eighteenth century British colonial life and the independence struggle or "Revolution" (in the section called 1833); and most substantially, his experience of life in post-Independence New York and his participation in the political development of the American Republic (through the main section of the novel, 1834), thus:

 * 1834
 * Chapter Ten: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — One
 * Chapter Eleven: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Two
 * Chapter Twelve: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Three, and Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Four
 * Chapter Thirteen: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Five
 * Chapter Fourteen: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Six
 * Chapter Fifteen: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Seven
 * Chapter Eighteen: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Eight, and Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Nine
 * Chapter Nineteen: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Ten
 * Chapter Twenty: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Eleven
 * Chapter Twenty-one: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Twelve
 * Chapter Twenty-five: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Thirteen
 * Chapter Twenty-seven: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Fourteen
 * Chapter Twenty-eight: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Fifteen
 * Chapter Thirty-two: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Sixteen
 * Chapter Thirty-four: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Seventeen
 * Chapter Thirty-six: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Eighteen

 * 1835
 * Chapter Two: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Nineteen
 * Chapter Five: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Twenty
 * Chapter Seven: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Twenty-one

List of characters
Vidal notes in the novel's afterword that each character named therein "actually existed," with the exception of its narrator, Charlie Schuyler, and William de la Touche Clancey, a thinly veiled satire of longtime Vidal critic William F. Buckley Jr. The sections of the novel that deal with the narrator's activity in the 1830s (as opposed to Burr's reminiscences of his adventures in the American Revolution through his trial for treason) focus on the political life of New York City during the end of the administration of President Andrew Jackson. This list of characters includes those that appear or are mentioned in the novel by its narrator, in order of appearance or mention.

 * Charles Schuyler - Law clerk in Aaron Burr's law office, narrator
 * Aaron Burr - New York City attorney, former Vice President
 * Eliza Jumel - Burr's second wife; reputed to be the richest woman in New York City
 * Dr. Bogart - Elderly friend of Burr
 * Nelson Chase - Burr's law clerk, married to Mary Eliza Chase
 * Mary Eliza Chase - Niece of (rumored to be daughter of) Eliza Jumel
 * William Legget - Subeditor of Evening Post
 * William Cullen Bryant - Assistant Editor of Evening Post, poet
 * Martin Van Buren - Vice President of the United States under President Andrew Jackson
 * Henry Clay - Senator, candidate for President (mentioned)
 * Richard Johnson - Senator from Kentucky, potential reform candidate for President (mentioned)
 * Mr. Craft - Burr's law office clerk
 * Matthew L. Davis - Editor, Tammany Hall insider, Burr's official biographer
 * Sam Swartwout - Collector of the Port of New York, appointed by President Jackson
 * Rosanna Townsend - Madam
 * Helen Jewett - Prostitute
 * Aaron Columbus Burr - Burr's illegitimate son, silversmith
 * Edwin Forrest - Actor
 * William de la Touche Clancy - Publisher of The American
 * Edmund Simpson - Owner of the Park Theater (mentioned)
 * Tom Hamblin - Manager of the Bowery Theater (mentioned)
 * Ephraim [No Last Name] - Ferryman, son of Burr's Revolutionary War comrade
 * James Madison - Former President of the United States, friend of Burr (mentioned)
 * John Marshall - Former Chief Justice of the United States, presiding judge in Burr's treason trial, cousin of Thomas Jefferson (mentioned)
 * Washington Irving - Novelist and journalist, acquaintance of Burr
 * Gulian Verplanck - Anti-Tammany mayoral candidate for New York CIty
 * Fitz-Greene Halleck - Poet, secretary to John Jacob Astor
 * John Jacob Astor - Financier
 * Mordecai Noah - Former Sheriff of New York City
 * Thomas Skidmore - Proto-socialist reformer
 * Charles Baldwin - Glutton
 * Alexander Hamilton Jr. - Lawyer, son of Burr's rival (mentioned)
 * Edward Livingston - Congressman
 * Reverend Peter Williams - Pastor of African Episcopal Church on Centre Street, NYC
 * Arthur and Lewis Tappan - Abolitionist leaders
 * Mrs. Redman - Boardinghouse proprietress
 * Reginald Gower - Printer and bookstore owner
 * Mrs. Keese (formerly Mrs. Overton) - Burr's landlady
 * Robert Wright - Philadelphia publisher of Davy Crockett
 * Colonel Davy Crockett - Congressman from Tennessee
 * George Orson Fuller - Phrenologist
 * Richard Robinson - Male prostitute, accused murderer
 * John Ogden Edwards - Judge, Burr's cousin
 * Pantaleone - Butler at American Consulate in Amalfi
 * Donna Carolina de Traxler - Wife of Charles Schuyler

Reception
In his review for The New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt lauded the novel as a "a tour de force of historical imagination", praising the plot as a "clever piece of machinery" whilst noting the "rather far-fetched and clumsy denouement". Writing in the same publication, George Dangerfield took issue with Vidal's heavy use of historical details, opining the novel "is far, far better when it is simply being a fantasy".

Kirkus Reviews praised the novel as "a clever book", noting the timeliness of its iconoclastic treatment of certain Founding Fathers "considering our mood of national discontent" amid the then-ongoing Watergate scandal.

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Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which was for her performance in Carmen Jones (1954). Dandridge had also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of The Wonder Children, later The Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films, usually in uncredited roles.

In 1959, Dandridge was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Porgy and Bess. She was the subject of the 1999 biographical film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, with Halle Berry portraying her. She had been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Dandridge was married and divorced twice, first to dancer Harold Nicholas (the father of her daughter, Harolyn Suzanne) and then to hotel owner Jack Denison. Dandridge died in 1965 at the age of 42.

Early life
Dorothy Jean Dandridge was born in 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio to entertainer Ruby (née Butler) and Cyril Dandridge. Her father was a cabinetmaker and Baptist minister. Her parents separated before her birth.

Ruby created a song-and-dance act for her two young daughters, Vivian and Dorothy, under the name The Wonder Children. The act was managed by her lover, Geneva Williams. Williams was said to have had a bad temper and to have cruelly disciplined the children. The sisters toured the Southern United States almost nonstop for five years (rarely attending school), while Ruby worked and performed in Cleveland.

During the Great Depression, work virtually dried up for the Dandridges, as it did for many Chitlin' Circuit performers. Ruby moved her family to Hollywood, California, where she found steady work on radio and film in small domestic-servant parts. After that relocation, in 1930, Dorothy attended McKinley Junior High School.

The Wonder Children were renamed The Dandridge Sisters in 1934. Dandridge and her sister were teamed with dance schoolmate Etta Jones.

Beginnings
The Dandridge Sisters continued strong for several years, and they were booked in several high-profile New York nightclubs, including the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. Dandridge first appeared on screen at the age of 13 in a small part in an Our Gang comedy short, "Teacher's Beau" in 1935. As a part of The Dandridge Sisters, she also appeared in The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1936) with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, A Day at the Races with the Marx Brothers, and It Can't Last Forever (both 1937) with the Jackson Brothers. Although these appearances were relatively minor, Dandridge continued to earn recognition through continuing her nightclub performances nationwide.

Dandridge's first credited film role was in Four Shall Die (1940). The race film cast her as a murderer and did little for her film career. Because of her rejection of stereotypical black roles, she had limited options for film roles. She had small roles in Lady from Louisiana with John Wayne and Sundown with Gene Tierney, both in 1941.

Also that year, Dandridge appeared as part of the specialty number "Chattanooga Choo Choo" in the hit 1941 musical Sun Valley Serenade for 20th Century Fox. The film marked the first time she performed with the Nicholas Brothers. Aside from her film appearances, Dandridge appeared in a succession of soundies – film clips that were displayed on jukeboxes, including "Paper Doll" by the Mills Brothers, "Cow, Cow Boogie", "Jig in the Jungle", and "Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter's Rent Party" also called "Swing for my Supper", among others. These films were noted not only for showcasing Dandridge as singer and dancer and her acting abilities, but also for featuring a strong emphasis on her physical attributes.

She appeared occasionally in films and on the stage throughout the rest of the 1940s and performed as a band singer in films with Count Basie in Hit Parade of 1943 and Louis Armstrong, Atlantic City (1944) and Pillow to Post (1945). In 1944, Dandridge was featured as the star in "Sweet 'N Hot", a musical held at the Mayan theatre in Los Angeles and produced by Leon Hefflin Sr., which played nightly for 11 weeks. In 1951, Dandridge appeared as Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba in Tarzan's Peril, starring Lex Barker and Virginia Huston. When the Motion Picture Production Code objected to the film's "blunt sexuality", Dandridge received considerable attention for wearing what was considered "provocatively revealing" clothing. The continuing publicity buzz surrounding Dandridge's wardrobe got her featured on the April 1951 cover of Ebony. The same year, she had a supporting role in The Harlem Globetrotters (1951).

In May 1951, Dandridge had a spectacular opening at the Mocambo nightclub in West Hollywood, the biggest in its history. after assiduous coaching and decisions on style with pianist Phil Moore. This success seemed a new turn to her career, and she appeared in New York and at Café de Paris in London with equal success. In a return engagement at the Mocambo in December 1952, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio agent saw Dandridge and recommended to production chief Dore Schary that she might make an appearance as a club singer, in her own name, in Remains to Be Seen, a film already in production. Her acquaintance with Dore Schary resulted in his casting Dandridge as Jane Richards in Bright Road—her first starring role, in which she expressed herself as a "wonderful, emotional actress"—which the trailer promoted. The film, which centered on a teacher's struggles to reach a troubled student, marked the first time Dandridge appeared in a film opposite Harry Belafonte. She continued her performances in nightclubs and appeared on multiple early television variety shows, including Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town.

Carmen Jones and 20th Century-Fox
In 1953, a talent search was conducted as 20th Century Fox began the process of casting an all-black musical film adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein II's 1943 Broadway musical Carmen Jones. This production had updated Georges Bizet's opera Carmen to a World War II-era, African-American setting. In Dandridge's leading role from the previous year, a school teacher in Bright Road, director and writer Otto Preminger could see no gift to portray the classic femme fatale in Carmen Jones (1954) but his consideration was that she would be suited for the smaller role, Cindy Lou. Dandridge, who had dressed down for the screen test of Bright Road to suit the demure teacher at its center, worked with Max Factor make-up artists to convey the look and character of the earthy Carmen, which she wore to a meeting with Preminger in his office. The effect, combined with some viewing suggested to him of her freer, looser appearances in the soundies material, assured her earning the production's title role.

The remainder of the cast was completed with Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Madame Sul-Te-Wan (uncredited), Olga James, and Joe Adams.

Despite Dandridge's recognition as a singer, the studio wanted an operatic voice, so Dandridge's voice was dubbed by white mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne. Carmen Jones opened to favorable reviews and strong box-office returns on October 28, 1954, earning $70,000 during its first week and $50,000 during its second. Dandridge's performance as the seductive Carmen made her one of Hollywood's first African-American sex symbols and earned her positive reviews. On November 1, 1954, Dorothy Dandridge became the first black woman featured on the cover of Life. Walter Winchell described her performance as "bewitching", and Variety wrote that it "maintains the right hedonistic note throughout".

Carmen Jones became a worldwide success, eventually earning over $10 million at the box office and becoming one of the year's highest-earning films. Dandridge was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first African American nominated for a leading role. At the 27th Academy Awards held on March 30, 1955, Dandridge was a nominee along with Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland, and Jane Wyman. Although Kelly won the award for her performance in The Country Girl, Dandridge became an overnight sensation. At the 1955 Oscar ceremony, Dandridge presented the Academy Award for Film Editing to On the Waterfront editor Gene Milford.

On February 15, 1955, Dandridge signed a three-movie deal with 20th Century Fox starting at $75,000 a film. Darryl F. Zanuck, the studio head, had suggested the studio sign Dandridge to a contract. Zanuck had big plans for her, hoping she would become the first African-American screen icon. He purchased the film rights to The Blue Angel and intended to cast her as saloon singer Lola-Lola in an all-black remake of the original 1930 film. She was scheduled to star as Cigarette in a remake of Under Two Flags. Meanwhile, Dandridge agreed to play the role of Tuptim in a film version of The King and I and a sultry upstairs neighbor in The Lieutenant Wore Skirts. However, her former director and now-lover Otto Preminger suggested she accept only leading roles. As an international star, Dorothy Dandridge rejected the two lesser roles, and Rita Moreno was cast in both roles.

On April 11, 1955, Dandridge became the first black performer to open at the Empire Room at New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Her success as a headliner led to the hotel booking other black performers, such as the Count Basie Orchestra with vocalist Joe Williams, Pearl Bailey, and Lena Horne.

Hollywood Research, Inc. trial
In 1957, Dandridge sued Confidential for libel over its article that described a scandalous incident that it claimed occurred in 1950. In May 1957, she accepted an out-of-court settlement of $10,000.

Dandridge was one of two Hollywood stars who testified at the 1957 criminal libel trial of Hollywood Research, Inc., the company that published Confidential and other tabloid magazines from that era. Four months after her out-of-court settlement for $10,000, she and actress Maureen O'Hara, the only other star who testified at the criminal trial, were photographed shaking hands outside the downtown-Los Angeles courtroom where the highly publicized trial was held.

Testimony from O'Hara, as well as from a disgruntled former magazine editor named Howard Rushmore, revealed that the magazines published false information provided by hotel maids, clerks, and movie-theater ushers who were paid for their tips. The stories with questionable veracity most often centered around alleged incidents of casual sex. When the jury and press visited Grauman's Chinese Theatre to determine whether O'Hara could have performed various sexual acts while seated in the balcony, as reported by a magazine published by Hollywood Research, Inc., this was discovered to have been impossible.

Dandridge had not testified during her civil lawsuit earlier in 1957, but in September she gave testimony in the criminal trial that further strengthened the prosecution's case. Alleged by Confidential to have fornicated with a white bandleader in the woods of Lake Tahoe, Nevada in 1950, she testified that racial segregation had confined her to her hotel during her nightclub engagement in Lake Tahoe. When she was not in the hotel lounge rehearsing or performing her singing, according to her testimony, she was required to stay inside her room where she slept alone.

The trial ended in a mistrial. The judge ordered Hollywood Research to stop publishing questionable stories based on paid tips. This curtailed invasive tabloid journalism until 1971, when Generoso Pope, Jr. moved the National Enquirer, which he owned, from New York to Lantana, Florida, where there were fewer restrictions.

Later career
In 1957, after a three-year absence from film acting, Dandridge agreed to appear in the film Island in the Sun opposite an ensemble cast, including James Mason, Harry Belafonte, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, and Stephen Boyd. Dandridge portrayed a local West Indian shop clerk who has an interracial love affair with a white man, played by John Justin. The film was controversial for its time period, and the script was revised numerous times to accommodate the Motion Picture Production Code requirements about interracial relationships. Dandridge and Justin did have an extremely intimate, loving embrace that succeeded in not breaching the code. Despite the behind-the-scenes controversy, the film received favorable reviews and was one of the year's biggest successes.

Dandridge next agreed to star opposite German actor Curd Jürgens in the French/Italian production of Tamango (1958). A reluctant Dandridge had agreed to appear in the film only after learning that it focused on a 19th-century slave revolt on a cargo ship traveling from Africa to Cuba. However, she nearly withdrew when the initial script called for her to swim in the nude and spend the majority of the film in a two-piece bathing suit made of rags. When Dandridge threatened to leave the film, the script and her wardrobe were retooled to her liking. As United States Production code requirements did not apply to the Italian film production, a passionate kiss between Jürgens and Dandridge's characters was permitted in the shooting of Tamango. This was Dandridge's first, and only, on-screen kiss with a white actor. Tamango was withheld from American release until late 1959. It received mixed reviews from critics and achieved only minor success.

In MGM's The Decks Ran Red (1958), Dandridge co-starred with James Mason, Broderick Crawford, and Stuart Whitman as Mahia, a cook's wife aboard a tired World War II surplus freighter enduring a mutiny. Despite being universally panned, the film generated a respectable audience. During production, fellow actor Stuart Whitman said that he noted her strength as she was going through personal turmoil.

In late 1958, Dandridge accepted producer Samuel Goldwyn's offer to star alongside Sidney Poitier in Goldwyn's forthcoming production of Porgy and Bess. This was her first major Hollywood film in five years. Her acceptance angered the black community, who felt the story's negative stereotyping of blacks was degrading. When the initial director, Rouben Mamoulian, was replaced with Otto Preminger, he informed Dandridge that her performance was not credible and that she needed intensive coaching to handle such a role. Porgy and Bess had a long and costly production. All the sets and costumes were destroyed in a fire and had to be replaced, which amounted to a loss of almost $2 million. Continuous script rewrites and other problems prolonged the production and ultimately pushed the film over its original budget. When it was released in June 1959, it drew mixed reviews and failed financially.

In 1959, Dandridge starred in the low-budget British thriller Malaga, in which she played a European woman with an Italian name. The film, co-starring Trevor Howard and Edmund Purdom, plotted a jewel robbery and its aftermath. Some pre-release publicity invited the belief that Dandridge received her first, and only, on-screen kiss with a white actor (Howard) in this film. She had kissed her white costar in Tamango, but Dandridge and Howard, under László Benedek's direction, created some strongly understated sexual tension. The film was withheld from a theatrical release abroad until 1960, and was not released until 1962 in the United States. Malaga was her final completed film appearance.

In 1962, Dandridge was filmed with Alain Delon on the set of La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo, a Raoul Lévy-produced French-Italian film that was abandoned due to financial issues. Years later it was released as Marco the Magnificent without either Dandridge or Delon.. She also appeared as Anita in a Highland Park Music Theater production of West Side Story, but she lasted only two performances due to illness. On 31 March 1962, Dandridge sang in the Le Paon Rouge nightclub of the Phoenicia Intercontinental as the guest of honor.

By 1963, Dandridge's popularity had dwindled, and she was performing in nightclubs to pay off debts from numerous lawsuits. She filed for bankruptcy and went into seclusion before appearing as a lounge act in Las Vegas in 1964. In 1965, she attempted to revive her acting career. Dandridge signed a new contract in Mexico and was scheduled to appear as the female lead in a film about outlaw Johnny Ringo.

Personal life
Dandridge was a Democrat, and she supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.

Having developed an interest in activism because of the racism she encountered in the industry, Dandridge became involved with the National Urban League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Marriages and relationships
During an engagement at the Cotton Club, Dandridge met Harold Nicholas, a dancer and entertainer. They married at a Hollywood ceremony on September 6, 1942. Guests at their wedding included Oscar-winner Hattie McDaniel, jazz singer Etta Jones, and choreographer Nick Castle. They had an unhappy marriage, which deteriorated because of Nicholas' womanizing and inattentiveness. By 1948, Nicholas had abandoned his family. Dandridge filed for divorce in September 1950, and it was finalized in October 1951.

Dandridge gave birth to her only child, Harolyn Suzanne Nicholas, on September 2, 1943. While she was in labor, Nicholas left her stranded at her sister-in-law's home without the car when he went to play golf. At first, Dandridge refused to go to the hospital without him. Harolyn's delayed birth required the use of forceps. This may have resulted in the brain damage that left her requiring lifelong constant care. Dandridge blamed herself for her daughter's condition, and for not getting to the hospital sooner. Harolyn was unable to speak and never recognized Dandridge as her mother. Dandridge was private about her daughter's condition; she didn't publicly speak about it until a 1963 appearance on The Mike Douglas Show.

While filming Carmen Jones (1954), she began an affair with director Otto Preminger that lasted four years, during which Preminger advised her on career matters. He demanded that she accept only starring roles after her success in his film. Dandridge later regretted following his advice. She became pregnant by him in 1955, but was forced to have an abortion by the studio. She ended the affair when she realized that Preminger had no plans to leave his wife to marry her. Their affair was depicted in the biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, in which Preminger was portrayed by actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Dandridge married Jack Denison on June 22, 1959. They divorced in 1962, amid financial setbacks and allegations of domestic violence. Dandridge discovered that the people who were handling her finances had swindled her out of $150,000, and she owed $139,000 in back taxes. She was forced to sell her Hollywood home and place her daughter in a California state mental institution, Camarillo State Hospital. Dandridge moved into a small apartment on Fountain Avenue in West Hollywood, California.

Final days and death

On the evening of September 7, 1965, Dandridge spoke by telephone from Los Angeles with her friend and former sister-in-law Geraldine "Geri" Branton. Dandridge was scheduled to fly to New York City the next day to prepare for her nightclub engagement at Basin Street East. Branton told biographers that during the long conversation, Dandridge veered from expressing hope for the future, to singing Barbra Streisand's "People" in its entirety, to making a cryptic remark moments before hanging up on her: "Whatever happens, I know you will understand."

On the morning of September 8 around 7:15 am, Dandridge telephoned her manager, Earl Mills, asking him to reschedule a hospital appointment she had that morning where a cast would be applied to her foot where a tiny bone fracture had occurred in a fall five days earlier. A few minutes later, she called again and requested a further delay and a 10:00 am appointment was scheduled. Her manager Mills received no response when he arrived at her door at the appointed time.

Several hours later, Dandridge was found naked and unresponsive in her apartment by Mills after he had finally broken in the apartment door using the tire iron from his car. A Los Angeles pathology institute determined that the cause of death was an accidental overdose of the antidepressant imipramine. The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office concluded that she died of a fat embolism resulting from a recently sustained right foot fracture.

On September 12, 1965, a private funeral service was held at the Little Chapel of the Flowers; Dandridge was cremated and her ashes interred in the Freedom Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Legacy
In the 1980s, after the passing of the blaxploitation era, such stars as Cicely Tyson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tempestt Bledsoe, Halle Berry, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Tasha Smith, and Angela Bassett began to acknowledge Dandridge's contribution to the image of African Americans in American motion pictures.

In the movie To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), Wesley Snipes played Noxeema Jackson, a drag queen whose dream is to play Dorothy Dandridge in a movie about her life and work.

In 1999, Halle Berry produced and starred in the movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. When Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball, she dedicated the "moment [to] Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll." Both Dandridge and Berry were from Cleveland, Ohio, and they were born in the same hospital.

Dandridge was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January 1984. She is featured as the most prominent figure in a mural on an exterior wall of Hollywood High School. A statue of Dandridge, designed by Catherine Hardwicke, honors multi-ethnic leading ladies of the cinema, including Mae West, Dolores del Río, and Anna May Wong.

Recording artist Janelle Monáe performs a song titled "Dorothy Dandridge Eyes" on her 2013 album The Electric Lady, with Esperanza Spalding. In the 1969 movie The Lost Man, Dorothy Starr (played by Beverly Todd) says that she named herself after Dandridge.

In a February 2016 episode of Black-ish, "Sink or Swim," Beyoncé is referred to as the Dorothy Dandridge of her time, citing the star power that Dandridge wielded in her day.

In 2020, Laura Harrier portrayed Camille Washington in the miniseries Hollywood. She is an up-and-coming actress during the Hollywood Golden Age in the post-World War II era, a character largely inspired by and based on Dandridge.

Discography
Dandridge first gained fame as a solo artist from her performances in nightclubs, usually accompanied by Phil Moore on piano. Although she was known for her renditions of songs such as "Blow Out the Candle", "You Do Something to Me", and "Talk Sweet Talk to Me", she recorded very little on vinyl. It is unknown whether her lack of recording was due to personal choice or lack of opportunity.

As a solo artist
In 1958, she recorded a full-length album for Verve Records featuring Oscar Peterson with Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, and Alvin Stoller (Catalogue #314 547-514 2) that remained unreleased in the vaults until a CD release in 1999. This CD also included four tracks from 1961 (with an unknown orchestra) that included one 45 rpm record single and another aborted single:

The tracks "It's a Beautiful Evening" and "Smooth Operator" were aborted for release as a single and remained in the Verve vaults until the Smooth Operator release in 1999. These are the only known songs Dandridge recorded on vinyl. Several songs she sang, including her version of "Cow-Cow Boogie" were recorded on soundies and are not included on this list.

As herself

 * Cavalcade of Stars (1952; 1 episode)
 * Songs for Sale (1952; 1 episode)
 * The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1953; 2 episodes)
 * The George Jessel Show (1954; 1 episode)
 * Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954) TV special broadcast on all four TV networks
 * The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955; TV special; nominee and presenter)
 * Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1956; 1 episode)
 * Ford Star Jubilee (1956; 1 episode)
 * The 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957; TV special; performer and presenter)
 * The Ed Sullivan Show (1952–1961; 7 episodes)
 * Juxe Box Jury (1964; 1 episode)

Stage work

 * Swingin' the Dream (1939)
 * Meet the People (1941)
 * Jump for Joy (1941)
 * Sweet 'n' Hot (1944)
 * Crazy Girls (1952)
 * West Side Story (1962)
 * Show Boat (1964)

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I wouldn't mind seeing a discussion of the Gore Vidal book at this page. I wish I could write it, but it's been far too long since I read it. -- Zoe

How odd. I was just about to write the same thing, but Zoe beat me to it. So that's what the edit conflict was about. Danny 03:28 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks, Danny. Isn't Alexander Hamilton the villain in this? -- Zoe

Now that was easy. :-) Danny 03:50 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)

Move to Burr (novel)
Shouldn't this page be moved to Burr (novel)? The "A Novel" isn't really part of the title--it's just a description that happens to appear on the cover--and anyway, Burr is what it's commonly referred to anyway.Kurt Weber 20:42, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Jefferson
In the afterward to Vidal's The Golden Age, he writes that Jefferson's relations with his black slaves have in the meantime been proven by DNA tests.

Burr is a rascal and how anyone can potray him above washington is beyond me, Vidal worships burr's bad manners and praises him as a hero for his wrongdoings.

Actually Aaron Burr had notorious good manners (a fact acknowledged by even his political opponents) I'm not personally a big fan of him as a politician or a political adventurer but you should keep in mind that a goodly portion of the novel in question is written from Aaron's POV. Even if you think of him as a villain its to much to ask that you expect Vidal to have him think of himself as a villain. In addition to that Washington was on the losing side of most battles in the Revolutionary War. The man was a bad general and a good politician. -Anymouse

Historical revisionism
Hello, are these novels considered to be "revisionist" in any way, or, historically accurate? 76.254.84.27 (talk) 20:32, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

 * If it was 100% historically accurate, the book probably would not be considered a novel. MisplacedFate1313 (talk) 22:30, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Iconography
It seems to me that the use of the term "iconography" cannot possibly be correct, as iconography refers specifically to the portrayal of Christian saints in icons or pictures; or perhaps more broadly, religious figures in general. To use this term only subtly supports the historical revisionism that this novel is a part of, which is clearly not NPOV. GrimmC (talk) 02:31, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Apparently, you did not read the same lives of the saints founding fathers as I did in elementary school--"iconography" seems spot on to me. Do you have a specific suggestion for recasting the sentence? --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 10:11, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

 * "Hagiography." 71.161.98.142 (talk) 22:21, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

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List of individual cats

This is a list of real, famous cats which achieved some degree of popularity either in their own right or by association with someone famous.

Criteria for inclusion
This list provides an index to encyclopedic information which does not always merit its own article. Edits of uncertain quality could be discussed on the talk page for feedback from other editors.

To be included in this list, cats should be either (a) the subject of an independent article which meets notability guidelines, or (b) based on reliable sources (with inline citations for each item). In the latter case, there should be significant coverage which addresses the topic directly and in detail. The cat must have attracted attention over a period of time. Only one entry per cat; if there is no compelling reason for it to be in a category such as "ship's cat", list it under country.

Please note "association with famous people" means more than simple possession, entries in the Guinness book of records are often the result of self-promotion, and internet memes about pets are viral phenomena built on social media, which also amounts to "self-promotion and publicity".

Before the modern era

 * Nedjem or Nojem (Egyptian: nḏm "Sweet One" or "Sweetie"), 15th century BC. The cat of Puimre, second priest of Amun during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut. Depicted on a damaged relief from Puimre's tomb, Nedjem is the earliest known cat to bear an individual name.
 * Ta-Miu (Egyptian: tꜣ mjw "She-Cat"), 14th century BC. The cat of Crown Prince Thutmose, mummified after her death and buried in a decorated sarcophagus in Prince Thutmose's own tomb following his own early demise.
 * Muezza, 7th century AD. The (possibly apocryphal) cat of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
 * Pangur Bán (Old Irish "White Pangur"; the meaning of the latter word is unclear), 8th-9th century AD. The cat of an otherwise unknown Irish monk, who wrote a poem cataloguing the similarities between the cat's character and his own.

Space flight

 * Félicette, the only cat ever launched into space. Launched by the French Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherches de Médecine Aéronautique (CERMA) on 18 October 1963, Félicette was recovered alive after a 15-minute flight and a descent by parachute. Félicette had electrodes implanted into her brain, and the recorded neural impulses were transmitted back to Earth.

Canada

 * Tuxedo Stan, a cat who ran for mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Czech Republic

 * Micka, Czech Republic's "First Cat" belonging to the President Petr Pavel

Ecuador

 * Michi, also known as the Embassy Cat, Julian Assange's cat that lived with him in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London until Assange's arrest.

Jersey

 * Oscar, a cat in Jersey fitted with 'bionic' hind limbs designed by vet Noel Fitzpatrick following an accident in 2009.

New Zealand

 * Mittens (~2009–present), a ginger Turkish Angora who wandered Wellington, New Zealand especially in Te Aro, before his relocation to Auckland. He has a Facebook fanbase who regularly post photos of him climbing into rental cars, entering businesses, and napping in unusual places.
 * Paddles, New Zealand's "First Cat", a polydactyl cat that belonged to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Poland

 * Gacek on the walk.jpgGacek, a male domestic cat with tuxedo fur, who over the years 2020–2023 has become a prominent tourist attraction in the city of [[Szczecin]], Poland, and received widespread attention from international media. The feline maintains a five star rating on Google Maps.

Taiwan

 * Think Think and Ah Tsai, who belong to Tsai Ing-wen, the former President of Taiwan.

Turkey

 * Gli, a cat from Istanbul best known for living in the Hagia Sophia.
 * Tombili, popular street cat from Istanbul who got a statue after his death.

Russia

 * Rusik, the Russian police sniffer cat in Stavropol, who died in the line of duty fighting against illegal endangered sturgeon fish traffic in 2003.

Ukraine

 * Stepan (Ukrainian: Степан) is a striped cat from Kharkiv, who became famous worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. His Instagram page helped raise support for Ukrainian animals after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Stepan was appointed as an 'ambassador' by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy as part of their 'Save Ukrainian Culture' campaign. In 2024, after Stepan became ill from the continuing attacks, he and his owner relocated to Germany.

United Kingdom

 * Attlee, cat in the office of the Speaker of the British House of Commons
 * Chief Mousers to the British Cabinet Office: Freya, Humphrey, Larry, Peta, Peter, Sybil, Wilberforce
 * Bob (?-2020), a London street cat made famous in books and a film
 * Casper (1997-2010), a cat who regularly rode the bus on his own in Plymouth and had a book written about his story.
 * Catmando, joint leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party from 1999 to 2002
 * Gladstone, Chief Mouser of HM Treasury at Whitehall in London since 2016
 * Hamish McHamish (1999 – 11 September 2014), a long-haired ginger cat that was adopted by the citizens of the town of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, and has had a statue built in his honour.
 * Nala, a cat popular with commuters, known for sitting on ticket barriers at Stevenage railway station
 * Nelson, Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cat, who resided at 10 Downing Street and elsewhere during the Blitz. Noted in Erik Larson's book The Splendid and the Vile and elsewhere.
 * Beerbohm, a cat that resided at the Gielgud Theatre in London.
 * Crimean Tom, a cat that helped British Army troops find food after the Siege of Sevastopol
 * Faith, a London cat that took up residence in St Faith & St Augustine's church (by St Paul's Cathedral) in wartime, and received a PDSA Silver Medal for her bravery in caring for her kitten when the church was bombed.
 * Mike (1908 – January 1929), a cat who guarded the entrance to the British Museum.
 * Palmerston, Chief Mouser of Foreign & Commonwealth Office from 2016 to 2020
 * Peter, the Lord's cat, the only animal to have an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
 * Tibs the Great (November 1950 – December 1964) was the British Post Office's "number one cat" and kept the post office headquarters completely mouse-free during his 14 years of service.
 * Tiddles, tabby resident of the Ladies' toilet at Paddington Station, London. Thousands of passengers met her and their donations fed her.
 * Tobermory Cat, a cat living in Tobermory, made famous by Angus Stewart.

United States

 * US Presidential Cats: India "Willie" Bush (George W. Bush), Misty Malarky Ying Yang (Jimmy Carter), Puffins (Woodrow Wilson), Shan, (Gerald Ford's daughter, Susan), Socks Clinton (Bill Clinton), Tabby and Dixie (Abraham Lincoln), Tiger and Blacky (Calvin Coolidge), Willow (Joe Biden)
 * Blackie the Talking Cat, a "talking" cat who was exhibited (for donations) by an unemployed couple on the streets of Augusta, Georgia. Blackie became the subject of a court case, Miles v. City Council of Augusta.
 * Blue, a Siamese cat taken hostage in Gresham, Oregon, in a grocery store in the United States in 1994.
 * Browser, Texas library cat
 * Fred the Undercover Kitty, a cat famous for assisting the NYPD and Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in 2006.
 * Hank the Cat, a Maine Coon who ran for Senate in the commonwealth of Virginia in the 2012 US elections. He finished in third place behind winner Democrat Tim Kaine.
 * Jack, a cat who was lost by American Airlines baggage handlers at John F Kennedy airport before Hurricane Irene. He was found later but was severely dehydrated and malnourished after his 61-day ordeal and was euthanized.
 * Jorts, office pet cat, organised labour mascot.
 * Room 8, a tomcat who appeared at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California, at the start of the school year in 1952, returning every day thereafter, before disappearing for the summer, only to return the following September. This behavior continued into the mid-1960s. (Ref. Los Angeles Times)
 * Scarlett, who in 1996 saved her kittens one by one from a fire in Brooklyn, New York, suffering horrible burns in the process. Named Scarlett by the fireman who rescued her. She became a famous example of the power of a mother's love.
 * Mayor Stubbs, a cat who was honorary mayor of the town of Talkeetna, Alaska, from 1997 until his death in 2017
 * CC (Copy Cat, or Carbon Cat), the first cloned cat.
 * Dusty the Klepto Kitty (US), notorious for being an expert night cat burglar.
 * Lewis, a cat who became infamous after being placed under house arrest.
 * Little Nicky, the first commercially cloned pet.
 * Nora, a gray tabby cat who apparently amuses herself by playing the piano.
 * Oscar the hospice cat, written up in the New England Journal of Medicine for his uncanny ability to predict which patients will die by curling up to sleep with them hours before their death. To date he has been right 100+ times.
 * F.D.C. Willard, or Felis Domesticus Chester Willard, a feline physicist, co-author and author, owned by Jack H. Hetherington.

On the Internet

 * Grumpy Cat (US, real name Tardar Sauce), an Internet celebrity known for her grumpy facial expression; died in 2019.
 * Henri, le Chat Noir, an internet film noir "existentialist" cat.
 * Jorts and Jean, cats in a viral 2021 Reddit post who became organized labor advocates on Twitter.
 * Lil Bub (US), star of Lil Bub & Friendz
 * Longcat (Japan, real name Shiroi), who became the subject of an Internet meme due to her length
 * Maru (Japan), internet celebrity famous for his love of boxes.
 * Smudge (Canada), also known as "Table Cat", who became part of the woman yelling at a cat Internet meme in 2019. The meme consisted of a screencap of a woman pointing angrily from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills paired with a picture of Smudge at a dining table, seemingly looking confused.
 * Sockington (US), a cat famous for his posts on Twitter.
 * Tara (US), a family cat from Bakersfield, California, who saved a four-year-old boy from a dog attack in 2014, and became a "viral Internet sensation" when household surveillance footage was published.
 * Tater Tot, a disabled orange kitten with "several malformations" including a cleft palate and "completely curly" legs. Became famous in 2023, for his mismatched splints and grumpy expression, Tater Tot died suddenly only weeks after making headlines for being a "tiny inspiration".
 * Zoe the Cat, PhD, a cat accredited by the American Psychotherapy Association, as part of a commentary about the state of accreditation within the industry by Dr. Steve Eichel.

In film and television

 * Morris the Cat, the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food.
 * Orangey, animal actor which appeared in Breakfast at Tiffany's and other movies.
 * Palmer the Cat, acted the part of Leo Kohlmeyer in the 1986 film The Richest Cat in the World.
 * Tsim Tung Brother Cream, was a cat who lived in a convenience store in Hong Kong. He has appeared in a book, and in advertising and on TV programs.
 * Lorenzo the Cat, an American feline model which appeared in the CBS News Sunday Morning, New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, The Times of India, and other various places such as magazines.

In literature

 * Catarina, Edgar Allan Poe's pet cat and the inspiration for his story "The Black Cat".
 * Cleo (1982 - c. 2006), a black cat owned by author Helen Brown and her son Sam. Cleo featured in Brown’s 2010 bestselling novel Cleo.
 * Dewey Readmore Books, the library cat from Spencer, Iowa. Born Nov 1987; abandoned at the Library in January 1988; died (euthanized) December 2006. Subject of a best-selling 2008 book, Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
 * Henrietta, the now-deceased cat of New York Times foreign correspondent Christopher S. Wren, made famous by the book, The Cat Who Covered the World.
 * Hodge, Dr. Samuel Johnson's favourite cat, famously recorded in James Boswell's 1791 Life of Johnson, as shedding light on his owner's character.
 * Jeoffry, the visionary poet Christopher Smart's cat, who is praised as "surpassing in beauty" in his owner's poem "Jubilate Agno". (Jeoffry was Smart's only companion during his confinement in an asylum in 1762–63.) The Jeoffry extract is set as a treble solo in the festival cantata, Rejoice in the Lamb Op 30, by Benjamin Britten.
 * Tao, male seal-point Siamese; inspiration for a main character in the 1961 novel, The Incredible Journey.

In music

 * Delilah, belonging to the Queen frontman Freddie Mercury; Mercury paid tribute to Delilah, a female tortoiseshell cat, on the Queen album, Innuendo.

World record holders

 * Arcturus, the tallest cat (20.1 inches).
 * Colonel Meow, a Himalayan-Persian mix who became famous on social media websites for his extremely long fur and scowling face. As of 2014, he holds the Guinness world record for longest hair on a cat (nine inches). Died 2014.
 * Creme Puff (1967–2005), Guinness World Records verified longest-lived cat, at just over 38 years; owned by Jake Perry of Austin, Texas
 * Cygnus, the cat with the longest tail (17.5 inches).
 * Flossie, Guinness World Records verified oldest cat alive (born in 1995; owned by Victoria Green of Orpington, England.
 * Himmy from Cairns, Australia the fattest cat on record who weighed 21.3 kg (46.8 lbs) at his death in 1986.
 * Meow, once the world's heaviest cat at 39.6 lb.
 * Nala Cat, a slightly cross-eyed Siamese-tabby mix. With 4.3 million followers on Instagram and her own brand of cat food, her value was estimated to be $100 million in 2022, making her the richest cat in the world at that time.
 * Prince Chunk, a shorthair cat alleged to weigh forty-four pounds (two pounds short of the world record).
 * Smokey, the holder of the Guinness World Record for "Loudest purr by a domestic cat".
 * Stewie, Guinness World Record holder for world's longest domestic cat from August 2010 until his death 4 February 2013.
 * Towser "The Mouser" (1963–1987) of Glenturret Distillery in Crieff, Scotland, holds the Guinness World Record for the most mice caught (28,899).

On ships

 * Mrs Chippy of Endurance, cat on the Ernest Shackleton expedition.
 * Nansen of RV Belgica, the ship's cat on board during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897–99.
 * Simon, celebrated ship's cat of HMS Amethyst. In addition to being presented with multiple medals, he was the only cat to have won the PDSA's Dickin Medal, for his rat-catching and morale-boosting activities during the Yangtze Incident in 1949. He also received the rank of "Able Seacat".
 * Trim of HMS Reliance, and HMS Investigator, the first cat to circumnavigate Australia. Companion of Matthew Flinders.
 * Unsinkable Sam of the GERMAN BATTLESHIP Bismarck, HMS Cossack, and HMS Ark Royal (91). All three ships were torpedoed, but Sam survived each sinking and retired to a home on dry land. The most famous mascot of the British Royal Navy.

Railways

 * Tama, a calico cat who was the station master at Kinokawa, Wakayama railway station, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan from 2007 to 2015.

Mascots

 * Algonquin Hotel cats named Hamlet and Matilda, resident cats of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. The Algonquin was for many years home to the Algonquin Round Table, consisting of such American wits as Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woolcott, and Harpo Marx. There have been nine cats who have called the Algonquin their home since the 1930s, but not all have been female. All the males have been named Hamlet (in deference to the actor John Barrymore), and the females Matilda.
 * Şero, the political mascot of the Turkish Republican People's Party (CHP) who resides in the party's headquarters in Ankara.
 * Smudge, "employed" for many years at the People's Palace, Glasgow, and a trade union member as a result.

Cats of famous people

 * Bimbo, the cat belonging to archbishop Makarios III during his year in exile in the Seychelles.
 * Choupette, the pet and muse of designer Karl Lagerfeld.
 * F.D.C. Willard, the pen name of Chester, the cat of Jack H. Hetherington, who listed the cat as co-author of several physics papers from 1975 to 1980.
 * Foss, belonging to Edward Lear; subject of many drawings, some published in The Heraldic Blazon of Foss the Cat; inspired The Owl & the Pussycat; Lear buried Foss in his garden and died himself only two months later
 * Mademoiselle Fifi, (aka Paree) the cat of American aviator John Moisant. Fifi accompanied Moisant during the first aeroplane flight from London-to-Paris on 23 August 1910. After Moisant was killed at New Orleans in December 1910, a photo was published of Fifi attending Moisant's funeral, draped in mourning cover.
 * Olivia Benson, a Scottish Fold belonging to Taylor Swift. Olivia Benson's worth was estimated to be $97 million in 2023, making her the third-richest pet in the world.
 * Ollie, the beloved Siamese cat of Ricky Gervais and Jane Fallon. Ollie was presented to Gervais by Jonathan Ross during the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show on 14 November 2003.
 * Snacks, belonging to Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast. Snacks was featured on the cover of the band's debut album Crazy for You, and Snacks and Cosentino were featured together in a PETA ad campaign.
 * Sprite, belonging to Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes; she was an inspiration for some of Hobbes' physical features and behaviors, such as his habit of pouncing on Calvin.

title: List of individual cats