The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, and produced by Val Lewton.
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Psychology pioneer Carl Jung admired the book, and in 1931 wrote an introduction to it.
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Film historian William K. Everson found the same sense of beauty at work in The Curse of the Cat People and Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête.
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Lewton grew up not far from Tarrytown, where the story is set, and was fond of ghost stories such as "The Headless Horseman" (Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") which is cited in The Curse of the Cat People.
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Elizabeth Russell, the sister-in-law of Rosalind Russell, was a regular in films produced by Val Lewton, having appeared in Cat People (1942), its sequel The Curse of the Cat People (1944) and The Seventh Victim (1943).