The World of Henry Orient
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| Directed by | George Roy Hill |
| Produced by | Jerome Hellman |
| Screenplay by |
Nora Johnson Nunnally Johnson |
| Based on | The World of Henry Orient by Nora Johnson |
| Starring |
Peter Sellers Paula Prentiss Merrie Spaeth Tippy Walker Tom Bosley |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography |
Boris Kaufman Arthur J. Ornitz |
| Edited by | Stuart Gilmore |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | est. $2,100,000 (US/ Canada) |
The World of Henry Orient is a 1964 American comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Nora Johnson, who co-wrote the screenplay with her father, Nunnally Johnson. It was directed by George Roy Hill and stars Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth, Phyllis Thaxter, Bibi Osterwald and Tom Bosley. The original story was inspired in part by Johnson's own experiences as a schoolgirl, as well as by a real life incident involving singer Tony Bennett and two teenaged fans.
In early 1960s New York City, concert pianist Henry Orient (Peter Sellers) pursues an affair with a married woman, Stella Dunnworthy (Paula Prentiss), while two adolescent private-school girls, Valerie "Val" Boyd (Tippy Walker) and Marian "Gil" Gilbert (Merrie Spaeth), stalk him and write their fantasies about him in a diary. Orient's paranoia leads him to believe that the two girls, who seem to pop up everywhere he goes, are spies sent by his would-be mistress's husband.
In reality, fourteen-year-old Val, the bright and imaginative daughter of wealthy international trade expert Frank Boyd (Tom Bosley) and his unfaithful, snobbish wife Isabel (Angela Lansbury), has developed a teenage crush on Henry after seeing him in concert, and involved her best friend Marian. Although Marian's parents are divorced, Marian lives a relatively happy and stable life in a townhouse in the city with her mother and her mother's also-divorced female friend, while Val, whose parents are still married (albeit unhappily), sees a psychiatrist daily and lives with paid caretakers while her parents travel the world.
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