Paula Prentiss

Paula Prentiss was born on Mar 04, 1938 in USA. Paula Prentiss's big-screen debut came with Where the Boys Are directed by Henry Levin in 1960. Paula Prentiss is known for Top of the Hill directed by Walter Grauman, Adrienne Barbeau stars as Elizabeth Stone and Sonny Bono as Bobby Antoine. Paula Prentiss has got 1 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Paula Prentiss achieved is RiverRun International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Paula Prentiss plays is I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House which will be released on Oct 28, 2016.

Discovered by a talent scout at Northwestern University in 1958, Paula Prentiss was signed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and teamed with Jim Hutton in a string of comedies. She rapidly became one of the best American comediennes of the 1960s. Her funny voice inflections, free acting style and brunette good looks established her as a leading lady in comedies of the screwball type, although she was very good in dramatic roles, too. Not much attracted to the Hollywood scene, she retired from films on several occasions, due also to illness and motherhood, but she was always admired and welcome whenever she made a comeback. She and her husband, the actor and director Richard Benjamin, are the parents of Ross Benjamin and Prentiss Benjamin.