1960 Directed by Albert Zugsmith
Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.
Mamie Van Doren Tuesday Weld Mijanou Bardot Mickey Shaughnessy Louis Nye Pamela Mason Martin Milner Conway Twitty Jackie Coogan John Carradine Maila Nurmi Jack Carr Allan Drake Jody Fair Norman Grabowski Charles Chaplin, Jr. Arline Hunter Irwin Berke Harold Lloyd Jr. Buni Bacon Babe London Larry Chance Noel De Souza Buddy Douglas Elektro Beverly Englander Jose Gonzales-Gonzales Cheerio Meredith Barbara Pepper Show All…
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In Sex Kittens Go to College, Mamie Van Doren plays Dr. Mathilda West, a woman with 13 different academic degrees whose arrival to take over the science department of Collins College causes total chaos — not because of anything she does, but because of the way people (mostly men) respond to her presence. At one point, she's explicitly described as someone who "looks like Mamie Van Doren," and is alternately drooled after and frowned upon by the college's masses — often by the same people, at the same time.
In the film's best scene, Dr. West responds to Collins' PR director's assertion that she can't possibly continue to teach, both because of her looks, and because of her past as…
With a name like this, it should have been a thing of beauty. Unfortunately, it was a piece of shite. It literally felt like someone came over to our place and shat this right out into the computer.
Mamie Van Doren is like a poor man's Marilyn Monroe. I'm not the biggest Monroe fan but her acting is far superior to anything Van Doren has done. Tuesday Weld is lovely as always but wasted in this thing.
Sex Kittens Go to College should have been a nice romp full of beautiful girls trying to get an education. Instead, you get a ridiculous wannabe comedy full of robots, blondes, and Conway Twitty. Now, I know that sounds AWESOME, and it should have been. A wasted opportunity all around.
*****Edit 01/2023- I've been watching some Van Doren stuff lately, especially THE BEAT GENERATION and GIRLS TOWN, and I ready do love her now. ❤
This groundbreaking film features a beatnik chimpanzee rocking out on some bongos and yet it received zero oscar nominations. Just goes to show the academy has been out of touch for a long time.
The beginning of my Albert Zugsmith mini-marathon.
Sexpot goes to college ♫
Sexpot goes to college ♫
I was hoping for something great from the same director as College Confidential, and boy was I not wrong! It starts off with the song above with some wacky and zany comedy sound effects. Shortly after, there's mention of a doctor: doctor of philosophy, constructive anatomy, and applied tantramology. And then on top of that, we get a talking robot.
Nobody wants to read about some dame with 13 degrees. It gives them an inferiority complex.
You read that right, Dr. West has thirteen degrees. What's even funnier is everyone is waiting for her arrival, and it turns out she doesn't look the…
With an all-star "B" cast that includes Mamie Van Doren as a computer scientist, Tuesday Weld, Conway Twitty, John Carradine, Jackie Coogan, Vampira, Brigitte Bardot's sister Mijanou, Norm "Woo Woo" Grabowski, Elektro the Smoking Robot from the 1939 New York World's Fair, AND a beatnik chimpanzee who wears sunglasses and plays the bongos, this had the potential to be the greatest cult film in history.
Unfortunately, director/producer Albert Zugsmith ingests all of these nutritious, delicious elements and shits out a massive stinking dukey filled with bits of undigested cinematic corn. Even nudity in the form of a strip-tease artist who's brought in to give Elektro a robo-boner can't save it.
The only explanation I can come up with is that the chimp must've written the script.
Note: Adult Version, wherein a gargantuan Depression-era automaton awkwardly develops simulated sexuality.
Collins College new science department head has a Curriculum Vitae unseen since Dr. Sam Beckett, but the unmitigated gall to look like Mamie Van Doren, causing widespread chaos across campus, among students and faculty alike. Meanwhile, "SAM Thinko", the college's sentient robot, is winning too many bets, endangering the country's entire bookmaking network. Adam-12's Martin Milner is here as the eventual love interest for Van Doren's character, and there's a clothes-wearing monkey because of course there is.
Originally titled Sexpots go to College, if the opening theme is to believed, the movie's technically about Van Doren, Tuesday Weld's friend-zoned co-ed and Bridget Bardot's sister, who is writing a…
Sex Kittens Go To College is a sexy slapstick comedy starring Mamie Van Doren and a handful of other cinematic luminaries. Basically, Mamie becomes the head of a college science department where her curvaceous platinum good looks cause all sorts of mayhem and mischief, especially when her past is revealed.
One of my favorite bits was seeing Jackie Coogan and John Carradine joining Mamie in a sort of burlesque conga line, roses in their teeth and shaking their rumps.
Sex Kittens Go To College is ridiculous and silly and loads of fun. There's a chimp in a striped shirt and white sunglasses. There's a giant super-brain super-computer robot named Thinko. Country musician Conway Twitty shows up to provide some quite…
TAGLINE „THE PICTURE FOR BROADMINDED PEOPLE ONLY“
...hm, da haetters heute noch schwerer als 1960.
„Sex Kittens Go to College“ (1960), liebe den Titel, ist ein Mamie van Doren Film in dem sie eine ungewoehnliche Rolle spielt, die einer klugen Frau. Keine Sorge, ansonsten bleibt der Film realistisch.
Denn es ist sowas wie ein „Problemfilm“ der sich mit einem selten behandelten Thema beschaeftigt: Was wenn eine super sexy Frau klug ist und Professorin werden will? Kann sowas gut gehen? Hier im Film gehts darum das ein College eine neue Professorin angeheuert hat - ohne die vorher zu sehen. Sie erwarten eine Matrone - und dann kommt da dieser heisse Monroe Verschnitt - nur aeusserlich, vom Verhalten nuechtern und gesetzt -…
Really spectacular monkey in this one. He uses a typewriter, plays the bongos, and just hangs out in the background. If more of this content were monkey-based we're looking at an easy 5.
truly the strangest and campiest, but also truly the best (and thoroughly empowering! hot woman scientist, head of the department, with endless Ph.D’s and she’s confident in her sexuality? hell yeah.) also, the strip tease scene was fucking great. i really enjoyed mijanou bardot in this as well lmao
Endearingly terrible vintage black-and-white college sex comedy starring Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld, Brigitte Bardot's sister, John Carradine, a jazz quartet headed by Conway Twitty, a trained chimp named Voltaire, and a robot named Sam Thinko. With her 13 higher degrees, Van Doren is a fantasy of a Renaissance woman who shows against all credibility that, even in this age of scientific specialization, the universal genius is not impossible. She is also a fantasy of a woman who succeeds in academia without concealing her femininity, or even her stylishness and sex appeal, from her colleagues. Neither of these appealing promises induces a good movie. For corrupted obsessives of retro trash only.
