Jack Nicholson screen characters, someone who is "snarly, dumb, smart, noble, rascally—all the parts of 'Jack'" Nicholson went on to win his next Academy Award for Best Actor in the romantic comedy, "As Good as It Gets" (1997), his third film directed by James L. Brooks. He played Melvin Udall, a "wickedly funny", mean-spirited, obsessive-compulsive novelist. "I'm a studio Method actor", he said. "So I was prone to give some kind of clinical presentation of the disorder." His Oscar was matched with the Academy Award for Best Actress for Helen Hunt, who played a Manhattan wisecracking, single-mother waitress drawn into a love/hate
The Cat Creeps prints or negatives of "The Cat Creeps" are known to exist, only some stills and the soundtrack. A few clips do survive in a short film produced by Universal entitled "Boo!" (1932). The Cat Creeps The Cat Creeps is a 1930 American pre-Code crime/mystery film, and a sound remake of "The Cat and the Canary" (1927). Starring Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton, Lilyan Tashman, Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Patterson, and Montagu Love, it is considered to be a lost film. A Spanish-language version, "La Voluntad del muerto", starring Lupita Tovar and directed by George Melford, was filmed by Universal Pictures