place at a small country hotel, where all parties materialise in the format of a typical French farce. Some are checked in, but most just appear. This includes Carole's parents who wander the corridors, causing Michael to jump from room to room. A rumour has also started locally that an orgy is taking place so side characters such as the petrol station attendant also start to appear. Carole appears and wishes to see Michael's room. As they speak, all the other participants chase each other around in the background. Fassbender's wife tracks him down. Everyone ends in Michael's room with most of the women half-naked. The police arrive and form a line. Anna—Dr. Fassbender's wife, played by Eddra Gale—charges in operatic Valkyrie costume, complete with a spear. They all escape to a go-kart circuit. They leave the circuit and go first to a farmyard then through narrow village streets still on the go-karts then back to the circuit. After a mayor marries Michael and Carole in a civil marriage ceremony, the couple are signing the marriage certificate when Michael calls the young female registrar "Pussycat", infuriating Carole. They leave and Fassbender attempts to court her instead. Cast Peter Sellers as Dr. Fritz Fassbender Peter O'Toole as Michael James Romy Schneider as Carole Werner Capucine as Renée Lefebvre Paula Prentiss as Liz Bien Woody Allen as Victor Shakapopulis Ursula Andress as Rita, the parachutist Michel Subor as Philippe Eddra Gale as Dr. Fassbender's wife, Anna Katrin Schaake as Jacqueline Eléonore Hirt as Carole's mother, Mrs. Sylvia Werner Jean Parédès as Marcel, Renée's husband Jacques Balutin as Etienne Jess Hahn as Mr. Werner, Carole's father Howard Vernon as Doctor Françoise Hardy as Mayor's assistant (the registrar) Sabine Sun as Nurse Nicole Karen as Tempest Jacqueline Fogt as Charlotte Daniel Emilfork as Gas Station Man Tanya Lopert as Miss Lewis Cast notes Richard Burton has a cameo appearance as a man at the bar in a strip club. Production Warren Beatty wanted to make a comedy film about male sex addiction and hoped Charles Feldman would produce it. The title What's New Pussycat? was taken from Beatty's phone salutation when speaking to his female friends. Beatty desired a role for his then girlfriend, the actress Leslie Caron, but Feldman wanted a different actress. Beatty and Feldman sought a joke writer and, after seeing him perform in a New York club, Feldman offered Woody