A cinematic and vibrant coming-of-age memoir, Chasing the Panther
captures the thrilling and, at times, heartbreaking early years of
Carolyn Pfeiffer, a pioneering film producer and one of Hollywood's
first female executives—a “mini-mogul” in the words of the
Wall Street Journal. For a moment in the 1980s, Carolyn
Pfeiffer was the only woman in Hollywood who could greenlight a
movie. Working with directors like Sam Shepard and Wes Craven, and
with actors like River Phoenix and Bette Davis, she had a hand in
producing or distributing many landmark films, among them Ridley
Scott's The Duellists, Alan Rudolph's Choose Me, and the Academy
Award-winning Kiss of the Spider Woman. However, long before
establishing herself as a player in the world of film, Carolyn was
a horseback-riding tomboy who dreamed of exploring the world beyond
her small hometown. Her journey turned out to be a tale fit for the
movies. As a young girl jumping from rock to rock in a rural North
Carolina town, Carolyn felt a calling she couldn’t articulate but
that she nonetheless understood: it was a tug on her heart, a
yearning for something more. When she could, she set out for New
York City, a refuge for young women exercising their independence
and resisting the pressures of marriage and motherhood. There,
swept up in the glamorous world of beat poets and millionaires,
Carolyn brushed shoulders with a young Burt Reynolds and became
fast friends with an English journalist named Penny. As the
turbulent 1960s dawned, Carolyn booked a one-way passage to Europe.
Her plan was to visit Penny and to travel around Europe for the
summer but, instead, the world opened up to her in ways she never
could have imagined. She found herself on set with Italy’s great
filmmakers, in the couture houses of Paris’ fashion icons, and
swept up in the youthful energy flooding London. She learned about
film and found work on iconic movies like Federico Fellini’s 8
½, Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard, and David Lean's Doctor
Zhivago, and she came to befriend and work alongside luminaries
like the Beatles, Tennessee Williams, Francoise Truffaut, and
Barbra Streisand. Amid these adventures and misadventures, Carolyn
fell in and out of love, and was beset by tragedies and triumphs
that resoundingly affirmed what she'd known since girlhood—that
she was always destined for something more. Set against the
dazzling backdrop of Fellini's Rome, the Paris of the French New
Wave, and Swinging London, Chasing the Panther reads like a
true-to-life novel revealing Carolyn’s unforgettable journey to
find her place in the world.
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