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Bookmark this pageWho Are You Polly Maggoo? (1966)
Director: William Klein
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
First feature for Klein, the American expatriate king of visual razzmatazz and strident satire, drawing on his own early background in fashion photography. Polly Maggoo (McGowan) is a suddenly famous model whose true personality is probed by a multitude of people, including a TV interviewer (Noiret) and a lovelorn Ruritanian prince (Frey) who dispatches two secret agents to grab her for his own. Klein's satiric targets may be nothing more than clay pigeons (we all know about media madness), but it's churlish to complain when he shoots at them in such an agreeably nutty way.Author: GB
Cast & crew
Director: William Klein
Producer: Robert Delpire
Cast: Dorothy McGowan, Jean Rochefort, Sami Frey, Philippe Noiret, Grayson Hall, Delphine Seyrig, Joanna Shimkus full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 102 mins
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