Grey Gardens set the template for cat ladies

Grey Gardens set the template for cat ladies on screen in the decades that followed. Both Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry's Catwoman roles featured cat ladies (in Batman Returns (1992) Pfeiffer was one; in Catwoman (2004) Berry is, in a sense, mentored by one); Mrs Deagle from Gremlins (1984); Eleanor Abernathy from The Simpsons (first appearance 1988); and Robert De Niro as a cat lady on SNL