Review: Kitten With A Whip (1964)
Hitting screens just months after a star-making splash in the Elvis vehicle Viva Las Vegas, 1964's Kitten with a Whip is a showcase for Ann-Margret. The Swedish-American actress had already been in State Fair and Bye Bye Birdie, establishing herself as an up-and-coming sensation for the teen set, but if her celebrity status was confirmed by her big-screen romp with Elvis, then Kitten with a Whip cemented her budding reputation as a sixties sex symbol. In Kitten with a Whip , the actress plays Jody, an escaped reform school student who is literally on the run when we first meet her. Chased by guards, she manages to dodge her pursuers and escape to a suburban neighborhood where she ducks into a house, wanders into a child's room, and collapses into the empty bed. It's precisely then that the owner arrives: a political candidate named David (John Forsythe, TV's Bachelor Father, best remembered as the disembodied voice of Charles Townsend on Charlie's Ang...