Caturday felid trifecta: Famous people and their cats, greatest cat scenes in the movies; nurse cat named Britain’s “National Cat of the Year”

August 5, 2017 • 9:00 am

The CHEEZburger site has 34 pictures of famous people and their cats. I was surprised to see that Siamese cats dominate the purebreds, but I’ll show a small selection of all of them. Can you recognize the people?

Feline and Nothingness

 

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Here is a selection of famous movie scenes with cats. I was pleased to see a cut from the great movie Kedi, but how could you not include the evil pair of Siamese cats from Lady and the Tramp?

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Finally, from the BBC News we have Britain’s National Cat of the Year, a female named Genie who helped her own through cancer treatment:

Genie was honoured for comforting her owner Evie Henderson, 11, from Lincoln, through six rounds of chemotherapy.

Evie was diagnosed with bone cancer in March 2016 and said Genie’s company helped her cope with several painful operations and long spells in hospital.

The cat was recognised by feline charity Cats Protection at a ceremony in London.

Evie said she shared a special bond with her pet, which gave her tremendous support when she lost her hair while enduring the gruelling treatment.

“It was very upsetting for me because I had long brown hair. But at the same time as it was spring, Genie was moulting as well so it was sort of like I’m losing my hair and Genie’s losing her hair as well so that eased the shock of it all.”

Evie’s father, Chris Henderson, said the cat had been a “great distraction” and described how Evie would watch video footage of her beloved pet from her hospital bed.

“Evie was in hospital for over 300 days so we spent a lot of time in hospital and it just gave her something to look forward to when she did have those few precious days at home.”

The 11-year-old said: “I missed her every day I was in hospital, and my family could tell she missed me.

“She’s my best friend and I honestly don’t know what I would do without her.”

Here’s a video:

Every cat should be Cat of the Year.

h/t: Kevin

28 thoughts on “Caturday felid trifecta: Famous people and their cats, greatest cat scenes in the movies; nurse cat named Britain’s “National Cat of the Year””

  1. Hi ,i have noticed in a film and a tv programme that people who mistreat cats come to a sticky end .
    In the tv programme of Rogue Mail ,with Peter O’toole the bad guy who kills the cat that O’toole has made a pet of, gets a arrow in the fore head ,which is only right and proper .
    And in the Goldie Hawn /Warren Beatty film The Heist the guy who feeds liquid LSD to a cat drowns ,let that be a lesson to be kind to cats.

  2. Oh, hell, if nobody else is gonna do it, I think I recognize all of ’em except for #2 (who looks kinda like a mustachioed Sam Rockwell, but isn’t):

    Liz

    James Dean
    J-P Sartre
    Gable & Lombard
    Eve’s boss, Ms. Davis
    The second Mrs. Sinatra
    Papa
    That bad hombre, P. Newman

      1. Damn, that was pretty obvious wasn’t it? Especially after all the Scaramouche play Queen’s gotten over the past two weeks. Can’t believe I didn’t recognize him straight away.

    3. I really need to get an education. I recognized the fourth one as “that dude who wrote stuff, holding a cat that looks like Sartre’s.”

  3. About the higher titer of Siamese cats. I think the breed was much more popular decades ago. I do not know why they have fallen away since then, but I rarely see then now.
    Or am I wrong here?

    1. In the last few decades, Siamese have been bred to look like weasels, with elongated bodies and tiny heads, which (in my opinion) makes them much less attractive as family pets.

    1. I didn’t realize that would embed. I try to use precautions for YouTube links, but forgot to for the picture. Sorry ’bout that.

      2. Plus, it seems as if the ban on image embedding has been relaxed here–after all, PCC recently posted a plea for help in explaining to readers just how to do so.

      1. Several years ago his wife Gail offered to answer 50 questions about him. I remarked that his music was very unsentimental, and asked what he was sentimental about in his private life. Her answer: “The first thing that comes to mind … is cats and Dogess but I am not sure that sentimental is applicable. FZ was way too romantic to be sentimental.”

    3. Watched a doc about Captain Beefheart recently. It had a good interview with Frank (Beefheart’s childhood friend and sometime collaborator).

  6. Few of the cats in the celebs with cats shots look happy.

    Video link is wrong, goes to a weight loss commercial.

  9. Oops…this was supposed to be a comment on the Caturday post. Didn’t mean to email direct…sorry.

  10. There probably is a good reason, but it seem it would be nice if the girl could have visits by her cat in the hospital. Perhaps the chemo set her immune system back and there would have been a risk of infection. I can imagine having feline visits would be terrific for moral.

  11. Just watched ‘Nine Lives’ on Netflix; not a great film but Kevin Spacey as a Trump-like entrepreneur who swaps bodies with a cat and Christopher Walken as the creepy pet shop owner raise it a bit.

  13. Ridiculous, the best cat video youtube did not include the feline look of approval at the Alien’s murderous schemes, and also failed to include the epic cat vs. vampire battle in Let the Right one In (which, to warn the faint of heart, includes some futile violence against the superior cats)

  14. It is good to see the opening scene of “The Godfather” included here: Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) speaking with a man who wants a favor from him, all the while petting and fondling a kitten.

    Reportedly, the shooting of this episode was going badly. The scene just would not come to life, and no one could figure out why.

    According to production histories, at some point during the filming, this kitten wandered onto the set. Knowing that Brando liked and worked well with props, director Francis Ford Coppola picked up the kitten and handed it to Brando without a word. Brando took it from there — one of those chance events that helps spark a previously flat element in a movie and ends up in the final cut.

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