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The Three Lives of Thomasina ()

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Thomasina the cat brings a family together, through her mysterious death and reappearance.
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Andrew McDhui
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Lori MacGregor
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Reverend Angus Peddie
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Mrs. MacKenzie
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Willie Bannock
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Grandpa Stirling
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Tammas
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Hughie Stirling
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Jamie McNab
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Doctor Strathsea
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Mother Stirling
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Constable McQuarrie
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Mr. Dobbie
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Targu (as Francis de Wolff)
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Old Lady
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Ms. McCloud
Jack Stewart ...
Birnie
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Mary McDhui
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Geordie McNab
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Thomasina (voice)
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Jack 'Kid' Berg ...
Villager (uncredited)
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Villager (uncredited)
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Townsman (uncredited)
Dido Plumb ...
Villager (uncredited)
Ernie Rice ...
Townsman (uncredited)
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Gypsy Granny (uncredited)

Directed by

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Don Chaffey

Written by

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Robert Westerby ... (screenplay)
 
Paul Gallico ... (book "Thomasina")

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Hugh Attwooll ... associate producer
Walt Disney ... producer (uncredited)

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Paul J. Smith ... (as Paul Smith)

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Paul Beeson ... director of photography

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Gordon Stone

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Robin Clarke ... assistant editor (uncredited)
Barry Peters ... first assistant editor (uncredited)

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Michael Stringer

Costume Design by

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Margaret Furse

Makeup Department

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Harry Frampton ... makeup artist
Betty Sherriff ... hair stylist
Frank Turner ... assistant makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management

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Basil Appleby ... unit manager
Peter Manley ... production manager

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Dennis Bertera ... assistant director (uncredited)
Terence Churcher ... second assistant director (uncredited)
Richard Jenkins ... second assistant director: second unit (uncredited)
Terry Marcel ... third assistant director (uncredited)
Clive Midwinter ... first assistant director: second unit (uncredited)

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Vernon Dixon ... set dresser
Dickie Bamber ... dressing props (uncredited)
Paddy Bennett ... standby props chargehand (uncredited)
Norman Dorme ... chief draughtsman (uncredited)
Denise Exshaw ... draughtsman (uncredited)
Alec Gray ... draughtsman (uncredited)
Jim Morahan ... draughtsman (uncredited)
Ron Quelch ... production buyer (uncredited)
A.J. Van Montagu ... scenic artist (uncredited)
Gus Walker ... construction manager (uncredited)

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Jonathan Bates ... sound editor
Gordon K. McCallum ... sound recordist (as Gordon McCalum)
C.C. Stevens ... sound recordist
Charles Arnold ... sound camera operator (uncredited)
Graham V. Hartstone ... assistant boom operator (uncredited)
Gus Lloyd ... boom operator (uncredited)
Gordon K. McCallum ... sound mixer (uncredited)
Otto Snel ... sound recordist (uncredited)

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Jim Fetherolf ... special effects
Ub Iwerks ... special effects

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David Harcourt ... camera operator
Mac Kenny ... director of photography: UK (2005 DVD release)
Michael Reed ... additional photographer
Ray Sturgess ... additional photographer
Bill Bannister ... grip (uncredited)
Brian Bennett ... focus puller: second unit (uncredited)
Bert Bosher ... chargehand electrician (uncredited)
Alan Hall ... camera operator: second unit (uncredited)
John Jay ... still photographer (uncredited)
Bill Knowles ... clapper loader (uncredited)
Alec Mills ... focus puller (uncredited)
Michael Sarafian ... focus puller: second unit (uncredited)
Laurie Shane ... electrician (uncredited)
John Swan ... gaffer (uncredited)
Ted Underwood ... grip (uncredited)
Stephen Warwick ... clapper loader: second unit (uncredited)

Casting Department

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Maude Spector ... casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Brenda Dabbs ... wardrobe mistress (uncredited)

Music Department

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Walter Sheets ... orchestrator
Evelyn Kennedy ... music editor (uncredited)
Eric Rogers ... conductor (uncredited)
Ethmer Roten ... musician: flute (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Marjorie Lavelly ... continuity

Additional Crew

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Jimmy Chipperfield ... animals
Walt Disney ... presenter
Dusty Symonds ... production runner (uncredited)
Jean Walter ... production secretary (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

A young Scottish girl's cat, Thomasina, apparently dies at the hands of her widowed veterinarian father. The strained relationship between the girl and her father is eventually repaired with the return of Thomasina and the aid of a beautiful and mysterious "witch" who seems to have powers to revive and heal animals. Written by Jeff Hole

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Taglines Three Human Lives Wonderfully Bewitched by a Enchanted Cat! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Les trois vies de Thomasina (France)
  • Las tres vidas de Thomasina (Spain)
  • Thomasina (Turkey, Turkish title)
  • Die drei Leben des Thomasina (West Germany)
  • Mirrin kolme elämää (Finland)
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Runtime
  • 97 min
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Trivia Paul Gallico, the author of the movie's source novel, was invited to the set during filming, and quickly came to dislike "the great god Disney". Therefore, he was vastly amused when one of the felines portraying Thomasina held up filming for two days by flatly refusing to perform a stunt for which she had been trained, in spite of Walt Disney's frustrated bellowing. Paul Gallico recalled in his memoirs: "I was proud of that cat!" As with many films with animals, more than one cat was used to portray Thomasina. Disney introduced the film when it aired on television (it's included in the DVD special features), during which he indicated that Paul Gallico was his friend. See more »
Goofs Scenes showing Thomasina will show an orange classic tabby and then an orange tiger tabby in another. These are two different styles of tabby cats. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into The Three Lives of Thomasina: Part 1 (1965). See more »
Soundtracks Thomasina See more »
Quotes Thomasina: [first lines; voiceover] Yes, I am Thomasina. This story's all about me. I'm a self-made cat, and here's the house I live in with the MacDhui family, whom I'd adopted when they first came here. They started off by calling me Thomas, but when they, well, got to know me better, they changed that to Thomasina. Humans are funny that way. That the MacDhuis are a happy family is entirely due to me. I made them what they are today... Although I had to be murdered first. Here's the scene of the crime - Inveranoch, in Scotland, in 1912. And this is Mr. Andrew MacDhui. From a cat's point of view, even before my murder, he was a most difficult man, believe me. His wife had died sometime before he came here, So there was just himself, and Mrs. Mackenzie, his housekeeper, and Mary, his daughter. I'd moved in on them a few days after they'd arrived, and on the whole, I got on with them very well, though mostly because of Mary MacDhui. She appreciated my rather special qualities from the start.
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