Mancini's other themes for the first film include an Italian-language set-piece called "Meglio stasera", whose purpose seems primarily to introduce young actress Fran Jeffries. When Gardner dropped out, so did Ustinov, so the role went to Sellers. Most of the films were written and directed by Blake Edwards, with theme music composed by Henry Mancini. Once again, many former Panther co-stars return – Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, and Graham Stark, and a star of the original 1963 film, Claudia Cardinale. DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, run by former Warner Bros. Cartoons creators David H. DePatie and Isadore "Friz" Freleng, produced the opening sequences, with Freleng as director. Mancini's theme, with variations in arrangement, is used at the start of all but the first two of the subsequent films. It is set in the present day and introduces different main characters, therefore belonging to a different continuity. This character, designed by Hawley Pratt and Friz Freleng, was subsequently the subject of his own series of theatrical cartoons, beginning with The Pink Phink in 1964. (NOTE: Page 1 is missing). With co-stars Robert Webber, Dyan Cannon, Tony Beckley and Robert Loggia. In 1993's Son of the Pink Panther, Blake Edwards tried one last time to revive the series, this time by casting Roberto Benigni as Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli, Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son by Maria Gambrelli, the murder suspect from A Shot in the Dark. Written by Peter Sellers and Jim Moloney. For the animated character, see. Then the role was offered to Peter Ustinov, with Ava Gardner to play his wife. The 1968 film Inspector Clouseau stars Alan Arkin as Clouseau, and does not feature any other recurring characters from the rest of the series. The film that launched the second Pink Panther series, The Pink Panther, starring Steve Martin as Clouseau, directed by Shawn Levy and produced by Robert Simonds, was released in February 2006 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was co-produced with Columbia Pictures. By the autumn of 1969, the shorts were being broadcast on NBC[7] during Saturday mornings on The Pink Panther Show; after 1969, new shorts were produced for both television broadcast and theatrical release. It was supposed to be directed by Clive Donner. This was the first (and to date only) time a studio's first work won an Oscar.[6]. [4] As of 2019, the film is still in development. The first film in the series had an animated opening sequence, created by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, featuring "The Pink Panther Theme" by Mancini, as well as the Pink Panther character. (NOTE: Page 1 is missing…, 100% found this document useful, Mark this document as useful, 0% found this document not useful, Mark this document as not useful, Save Romance of the Pink Panther (Scanned Script) For Later. A Shot in the Dark (1964) was released less than a year after The Pink Panther, and was the first to feature the Clouseau character as the protagonist of the film, investigating a murder. United Artists commissioned a long series of The Pink Panther shorts, the first of which, 1964's The Pink Phink, won the 1964 Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Clifton Sleigh, portrayed by Ted Wass. The Pink Panther is a British-American media franchise primarily focusing on a series of comedy-mystery films featuring an inept French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. This film received negative reviews and was also not as successful at the box office as its predecessor, which resulted in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cancelling the planned third film. The phrase was used for all the subsequent films in the series, even when the jewel did not figure in the plot. The role was then modified to include elements of slapstick. Romance of the Pink Panther was to be the seventh film in the Pink Panther series, and would have starred Peter Sellers in the role of Chief Inspector Clouseau in his sixth Panther appearance. [citation needed] Shortly afterwards, it was suggested that Dudley Moore should play Clouseau, but Blake Edwards chose to introduce a new character in the series to replace Clouseau. Martin reprises his role, but John Cleese replaces Kevin Kline as Chief Inspector Dreyfus. To be directed by Clive Donner. "MGM To Make New Live-Action/CG 'Pink Panther' Movie", "Julie Andrews, 79, finds new favorite things", It Had Better Be Tonight (Meglio Stasera), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Pink_Panther&oldid=981410613, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2018, Articles to be expanded from September 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Harvey Korman (previously unseen footage), Frank Waldman & Tom Waldman & Blake Edwards & Geoffrey Edwards, Blake Edwards & Madeline Sunshine & Steve Sunshine, Ted Wass (as Sergeant Sleigh, an American bumbling detective), Roberto Benigni (as Officer Gambrelli, Clouseau's illegitimate son), This page was last edited on 2 October 2020, at 04:13. Romance of the Pink Panther is a script that never got produced into a film written by Peter Sellers and Jim Moloney. It also appears in the revival of the Inspector Clouseau character in the much later Steve Martin films The Pink Panther (2006), and its sequel The Pink Panther 2 (2009). The Pink Panther (1963), the original film of the series, centered on the Phantom/Sir Charles Lytton, portrayed by David Niven. [1] The cartoon series gained its highest profile on television, aired on Saturday mornings as The Pink Panther Show. Clouseau returns, after having plastic surgery to disguise his identity, in a cameo played by Roger Moore (who is credited as "Turk Thrust II"). Most of the remaining tracks on the soundtrack album are early 1960s orchestral jazz pieces, matching the style of the era. The animated Pink Panther character also appeared in a short animated segment on the educational TV series Sesame Street, demonstrating his karate skills to carve the letter K out of a block of stone, only for it to crumble quickly afterwards. Romance of The Pink Panther. In 2014, MGM announced (see above) that it was planning an animation / live-action hybrid film reboot of the franchise,[8] to be directed by David Silverman and produced by Walter Mirisch and Julie Andrews.[9]. Only two script drafts were completed. It also co-starred Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Graham Stark, Tracy Reed and Douglas Wilmer. Although it was produced by the Mirisch Corporation (who owned the rights to the character), few people associated with the earlier films such as Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards, and composer Henry Mancini were involved in the making of this film; as a result, Inspector Clouseau is not usually considered a true Pink Panther film. 1983's Curse of the Pink Panther is the first to feature a different lead character, bungling American detective, Sgt. [5], The opening title sequence in the original 1963 The Pink Panther film was such a success with the United Artists executives that they decided to adapt the title sequence into a series of theatrical animated shorts. As detailed in the director's commentary for the first film, the Inspector Clouseau character was originally conceived as a vehicle for David Niven, but once written it was decided he should play the raconteur/thief. The jewel ultimately appeared in six of the 11 films. In The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Dreyfus' insanity reached its zenith, as he tried to blackmail the rest of the world into killing Clouseau. Most of the films in the series starred Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau and were directed and co-written by Blake Edwards. On March 2014, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced plans to develop a new live action/CGI hybrid feature film starring The Pink Panther, which it said would be directed by The Simpsons Movie helmer and Monsters, Inc. co-director David Silverman and produced by Walter Mirisch and Disney's The Princess Diaries actress Julie Andrews (who, in addition to her many career accomplishments, is Blake Edwards' widow). Unlike most previous films, this film would not be focused on Inspector Clouseau, but it will instead be focused entirely on the titular cartoon character himself. The diamond reappears in several later films in the series, The Return of the Pink Panther, Trail of the Pink Panther, and Curse of the Pink Panther. Sellers' role is created by using scenes cut from Strikes Again, as well as flashbacks from the previous Pink Panther films. Some elements of Arkin's performance and costuming, however, were retained when Peter Sellers resumed the role of Clouseau for Return in 1975. The phrase reappears in the title of the fourth film The Return of the Pink Panther, in which the theft of the diamond is again the centre of the plot. He died two years after its release. ... Download & View Romance Of The Pink Panther (scanned Script) as PDF for free. The plot is a debt-ridden fashion designer and his super-model girlfriend steal The Pink Panther Diamond from a museum and the Sultan of Lugash calls on Clouseau to retrieve it again. Although intended to spawn a new series of misadventures for Sergeant Sleigh, the film's dismal box-office performance and critical drubbing, along with a series of back-and-forth suing between MGM and Edwards led to a decade-long hiatus of the series.

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