Cast & creator
Paula Prentiss
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Saturday Night Live, Murder, She Wrote
Paula Prentiss (born March 4, 1938) is an American actress. She is best known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are (1960), What's New Pussycat? (1965), Catch-22 (1970), The Parallax View (1974), and The Stepford Wives (1975). From 1967 to 1968, Prentiss co-starred with her husband Richard Benjamin in the CBS sitcom He & She, for which she received a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paula Prentiss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Paula Ragusa
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film credits
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television credits
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1948–2025 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (46)
Showing 46 of 46 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
Murder, She Wrote
Leonora Holt
1984
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
77 Sunset Strip
Soap model (uncredited)
1958
The Oscars
Self
1953
Burke's Law
Carla Martinet
1994
He & She
Paula Hollister
1967
The Stepford Wives
Bobbie Markowe
1975
Catch-22
Nurse Duckett
1970
In Harm's Way
Beverly McConnell
1965
The Parallax View
Lee Carter
1974
Mrs. Winterbourne
Nurse Allmeyer (uncredited)
1996
What's New Pussycat?
Liz Bien
1965
Top of the Hill
Norma Ellsworth Cully
1980
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
Iris Blum
2016
Where the Boys Are
Tuggle Carpenter
1960
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Self
2002
Man's Favorite Sport?
Abigail Page
1964
Bachelor in Paradise
Linda Delavane
1961
Buddy Buddy
Celia Clooney
1981
Saturday the 14th
Mary
1981The Lion Roars Again
Self
1975
The World of Henry Orient
Stella Dunnworthy
1964
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Bobbi Michele
1972
The Honeymoon Machine
Pam Dunstan
1961
M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
Lynne Wiley
1983
The Couple Takes a Wife
Barbara Hamilton
1972
The Black Marble
Sgt. Natalie Zimmerman
1980
Crazy Joe
Anne
1974
Born to Win
Veronica
1971
The Stepford Life
Herself
2001
The Horizontal Lieutenant
Lt. Molly Blue
1962
Move
Dolly
1970
Looking for Love
Self
1964
Friendships, Secrets and Lies
Sandy
1979
Follow the Boys
Toni
1963
SEGAL
Self
2025
No Room to Run
Terry McKenna
1977
Having Babies II
Trish Canfield
1977
Hard Four
Sweet Cherrie
2007
Packin' It In
Dianne Webber
1983
Ida Western Exile
Thanks
2017