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Cat Ballou

Cat Ballou (1965) is a Columbia Pictures Western comedy directed by Elliot Silverstein, starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, whose dual role as Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn won the Best Actor Oscar.

Cat café

Cat café: a business where visitors pay to spend time with cats. Began with Taipei's Cat Flower Garden (1998), boomed in Osaka and Tokyo, reached the US in 2014 (Cat Town, Meow Parlour). Adoption-linked, health-code constrained, and debated on cat welfare grounds.

Cat Cora

Cat Cora (born 1967), Greek American chef from Jackson, Mississippi, CIA class of 1995, first female Iron Chef on Iron Chef America (2005); founder of Chefs for Humanity, 18+ restaurants.

Cat Country

Cat Country (Maocheng ji) is a 1932 satirical dystopian novel by Chinese writer Lao She, in which a narrator visits a Mars country of cat people mirroring China's ills.

Cat Deeley

Cat Deeley (Catherine Elizabeth Deeley, born 1976) is an English TV presenter who hosted SM:TV Live and CD:UK, So You Think You Can Dance in the US, and now co-hosts This Morning.

Cat Grant

Cat Grant (Catherine Jane Grant) is a DC Comics Superman-supporting journalist created by Marv Wolfman and Jerry Ordway in Adventures of Superman #424 (January 1987); a Daily Planet gossip columnist later CatCo CEO and President Luthor's press secretary, played by Calista Flockhart in Supergirl.

Cat Janice

Cat Janice (Catherine Janice Ipsan, 1993–2024), American alt-pop singer-songwriter from Annandale, Virginia; her hospice-released single "Dance You Outta My Head" (2024) went viral, topping the TikTok Billboard Top 50, with proceeds going to her son Loren.

Cat lady

Cat lady: colloquial stereotype of a single, often older woman devoted to many cats, pejorative as "crazy cat lady". Roots in witchcraft trials, Georgian cartoons, and 1872 press; reclaimed since the 2010s by owners and celebrities like Taylor Swift.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is Tennessee Williams's 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning three-act play about the Pollitt family's inheritance fight, Maggie and Brick's broken marriage, and its two disputed third acts, later filmed with Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) is Richard Brooks's MGM drama adapted from Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize play, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Burl Ives, censored by the Production Code and a major box-office success.

Cat People (1942 film)

Cat People (1942) is Val Lewton's first RKO horror film, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Simone Simon as a Serbian emigre who fears turning into a panther; a $135,000 B picture that became RKO's top 1942 grosser through suggestion-based horror.

Cat People (1982 film)

Cat People (1982) is Paul Schrader's erotic horror remake of the 1942 Val Lewton film, starring Nastassja Kinski and Malcolm McDowell as were-cat siblings in New Orleans, with music by Giorgio Moroder and a David Bowie title song.

Cat Person (film)

Cat Person (2023) is a psychological thriller directed by Susanna Fogel, written by Michelle Ashford, adapting Kristen Roupenian's viral 2017 New Yorker short story; stars Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun, Sundance premiere, 46% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Cat Power

Cat Power is the stage name of Chan Marshall (born 1972, Atlanta), American singer-songwriter blending folk, blues, soul, and indie rock; albums Moon Pix, The Greatest, Sun, and the 2023 Dylan Royal Albert Hall recreation.

Cat Soup (ねこぢる草)

Cat Soup (Nekojiru-sō, ねこぢる草) is a 2001 Japanese experimental anime OVA directed by Tatsuo Satō with Masaaki Yuasa, based on Nekojiru's manga: kitten Nyatta journeys wordlessly to recover his sister's stolen half-soul; FantAsia and Japan Media Arts Festival award winner.

Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens is the stage name of Steven Georgiou, later Yusuf Islam, a British singer-songwriter of 1970s folk hits who converted to Islam in 1977 and left music for 27 years.

Cat-Women of the Moon

Cat-Women of the Moon (Rocket to the Moon) is a 1953 American 3-D black-and-white sci-fi film directed by Arthur Hilton, starring Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, and Marie Windsor, about telepathic lunar women who plot to steal the astronauts' rocketship; remade as Missile to the Moon.

Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's fourth novel, a satirical postmodern science-fiction novel published in 1963 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, known for ice-nine, San Lorenzo, Bokononism, and a 5th-place 1964 Hugo finish.

Cat's Eye (1985 film)

Cat's Eye is a 1985 American horror anthology film directed by Lewis Teague from Stephen King's screenplay, linking Quitters Inc., The Ledge, and The General through a stray cat protecting Drew Barrymore; released April 12, 1985 by Dino De Laurentiis.

Cat's Eyes (TV series)

Cat's Eyes is a 2024 French TF1 live-action series adapting Tsukasa Hōjō's manga Cat's Eye as a prequel about the Chamade sisters, art thieves in Paris, starring Camille Lou, Constance Labbé, and Claire Romain.

Cat's in the Cradle

"Cat's in the Cradle" is a 1974 folk rock song by American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, written with lyrics by his wife Sandy, and his only Billboard Hot 100 number one.

Catalan Atlas

The Catalan Atlas (Atles català) is a richly illuminated medieval world map of about 1375, attributed to the Jewish cartographer Cresques Abraham of Palma, Majorca.

Catalan cuisine

Catalan cuisine (cuina catalana) is the cooking of Catalonia, Spain, documented since the 1324 Llibre de Sent Soví, with dishes like pa amb tomàquet and crema catalana and a modern avant-garde restaurant movement led by Ferran Adrià.

Catalan Modernism

Catalan Modernism (Modernisme català) was a cultural movement in Catalonia from roughly 1890 to 1911, seeking to modernize the country while asserting its national identity.

Catalina Duque

Catalina Duque, or Catalina Duque Abréu, is a Colombian model and beauty queen from Medellín who won Señorita Colombia 2024 and was crowned Miss International 2025.

Catalina Sandino Moreno

Catalina Sandino Moreno, born 1981 in Bogotá, is a Colombian actress who earned the first Colombian Best Actress Oscar nomination for her debut in Maria Full of Grace (2004).

Catalina Sopelana

Catalina Sopelana, Spanish actress born in Madrid in 1992, known for El vecino, Sky Rojo, Modelo 77, and her lead role as Clara Merlo in Netflix's El cuco de cristal (2025).

Catalogue of Women

The Catalogue of Women, also known as the Ehoiai, is a fragmentary ancient Greek epic poem ascribed to Hesiod that traced heroic genealogies through mortal women.

Catastrophe (2015 TV series)

Catastrophe (2015 TV series): British-American Channel 4/Amazon sitcom by and starring Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, about an accidental pregnancy, marriage, and parenting; four seasons, 2015-2019, BAFTA-winning, Metascore 87.

Catatonia (band)

Catatonia were a Welsh alternative rock band formed in Cardiff in 1992, fronted by Cerys Matthews with Mark Roberts. Their albums International Velvet and Equally Cursed and Blessed both reached UK number 1, with hits Mulder and Scully and Road Rage; the band split in 2001.