1965: What's New, Pussycat?

The demure Capucine...

...turns into a raging virago against her oafish hubby...

In The Pink Panther Capucine cheated on her husband Peter Sellers ; in What's New she cheats on her husband with Peter Sellers... In both she's duping her husband for her insatiable lust, with Pussycat featuring a vicious turn when confronted with her infidelity... Woody Allen may be considered a comedy genius, but he took a page out of a Three Stooges script here, having a vicious Dominant WOman physically abuse her wimpy husband. Browbeaten husbands are stock comedy characters, but where this scene differs is that the Overbearing Wife is not some Harridan in hairpins and a housecoat with a rolling pin, but the glamorously elegant model-turned-actress Capucine. That's what distinguishes many of the 60s Femme Fetish roles from their 1940s/50s prior incarnations. The Women are decidedly more alluring, ravishing and erotic. Same shticks, different chicks...

Archetype(s): Virago

Paraphilia(s): Biastophilia ; Emasculaphilia

Ursula Andress...

and her irresistible foot...

Paraphilia(s): Flesh Fetish: Feet