The Tiger and the Pussycat 1967 Comedy drama about a middle aged Italian businessman Vittorio Gassman who is married to Eleanor Parker and is innocently introduced one day to a schoolgirl with pigtails named Carolina Years later, the schoolgirl has become a promiscuous young woman Ann Margret and she pursues him and sucks him into an on again off again romantic tryst where she pulls the strings Kitten with a Whip Italian Style