Rhubarb is a 1951 comedy "Screwball-noir" film directed by Arthur Lubin starring Orangey (a cat), Jan Sterling and Ray Milland. Orangey won Patsy Awards (Picture Animal Top Star of the Year, the animal version of an Oscar) for his appearances in both Rhubarb and Breakfast at Tiffany's, the only cat so far to win more than once. Strother Martin and Leonard Nimoy have uncredited roles in this film. Incidentally, Strother Martin and Leonard Nimoy sh...
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Rhubarb is a 1951 comedy "Screwball-noir" film directed by Arthur Lubin starring Orangey (a cat), Jan Sterling and Ray Milland. Orangey won Patsy Awards (Picture Animal Top Star of the Year, the animal version of an Oscar) for his appearances in both Rhubarb and Breakfast at Tiffany's, the only cat so far to win more than once. Strother Martin and Leonard Nimoy have uncredited roles in this film. Incidentally, Strother Martin and Leonard Nimoy share the same birthday, March 26th; Martin in 1919 and Nimoy in 1931.
The film concerns the consequences when a rich eccentric bequeaths ownership of a baseball team to a cat named Rhubarb, played by Orangey. A millionaire finds a stray cat and takes him into his home, making him his one true friend. When the millionaire dies, Rhubarb is his sole beneficiary.
When the team finds out they are owned by a cat they protest. Their publicist Eric Yeager (Milland) convinces them that Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly, played by Jan...
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