This movie is truly gorgeous, delicious. It's funny and very touching at the same time, a simple and fabulous scenario. The two young actresses, Tippy Walker (Val) and Merrie Spaeth (Gil), are unrivaled natural, something like pure rain. Paula Prentiss makes a real memorable role. Just as Angela Lansbury (in October 2017 she will be 92 years old), a role like I've never seen before, maybe her best. Tom Bosley, Phyllis Thaxter and Bibi Osterwald are excellent. Last but not least at all, the sacred monster, the greatest comic actor of all time (well, along with Chaplin and Benny Hill), Mister Peter Sellers. Adorable! The piano scene with Paula Prentiss, when describing her body parts in musical arrangements, is simply brilliant. I saw almost all of the films directed by George Roy Hill, all masterpieces, especially "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) and "The Sting" (1973), both with two exceptional Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Not less masterpieces are: "The Little Drummer Girl" (1984), "The World According to Garp" (1982) and "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1972). "A Little Romance" (1979), another gorgeous film by him, resembles the theme and atmosphere of "The World of Henry Orient". Deserves more than 10 stars!

Manhattan 14 year old private school girls Val Boyd (Tippy Walker) and Marian Gilbert (Merrie Spaeth) become best friends. They run across egotistical famous avant-garde pianist Henry Orient (Peter Sellers) who is having an affair with married Stella Dunnworthy (Paula Prentiss). They keep running into him and starts stalking him. Orient becomes paranoid. Val is infatuated and writes in her diary. Val's absentee parents (Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley) return home and her mother discovers the diary. There is trouble in the marriage. Her mother confronts Henry Orient and end up in an affair with him.The girls are adorable troublemakers and Peter Sellers has great reactions to them. Tippy Walker is absolutely winning. There is a fun lightness in the adolescent misadventure with a dash of impending adulthood. The movie is better staying with the girls. Peter Sellers is a great comedian but this is not his movie. It does get more serious but it never goes completely dark.

This movie hasn't got that good of a rating. So I don't think it was really that good even when it was released. But with time it has really dated making it unwatchable. I couldn't even understand what we were supposed to like about the movie or where we were supposed to laugh.It is about two fourteen year old girls who are friends. One of them develops a crush on an mature guy, and they start following him. They meet him once. Then they meet him again. Then they meet him again. I know it is kind of repetitive, but so was the movie.Maybe it will be somewhat liked by the people of that time, but things have changed too much now. Give this one a miss.

Two teenage girls stalk a pianist in "The World of Henry Orient," a 1964 film starring Peter Sellars, Angela Lansbury, Phyllis Thaxter, Tom Bosley, Paula Prentiss, Merrie Spaeth and Tippy Walker.Spaeth and Walker are the 14-year-old teens, and the writing for them isn't good - it's PERFECT, capturing what it's like to be that age and having your first crush. The object of their affections is vain, paranoid Henry Orient (Peter Sellars) a pianist who apparently specializes in somewhat ugly modern music whom the girls see kissing his married girlfriend (Prentiss) in the park. When they see him again, he recognizes them and becomes unnerved. Then they attend a concert -- he sees them from the stage and nearly goes into orbit. After that, the girls read all they can about him and start staking out his apartment and restaurants he frequents.The Prentiss character, Stella, lives in fear of her husband finding out about her non-affair - she refuses to go to Orient's apartment, and whenever she acquiesces, she ends up running out of the back of the restaurant while he's getting a cab. Finally Henry gets her to his place. He spots the girls outside, and Stella becomes convinced that her husband has hired two child detectives. The kids have told a storekeeper next to their stalking stoop that they're waiting for their mother, Jayne Mansfield, who has been kidnapped. It goes from there - and it's HILARIOUS.The teens are sensational, giggly, wildly imaginative and creative, swooning, and faking terminal illness and other events on the street as they race all over the gloriously photographed New York City. Val comes from a super-rich family and neglectful parents, played by the glamorous Angela Lansbury and Tom Bosley as her quiet, hard-working husband. Her story, despite all the humor, is a poignant one.Sellars is fantastic, sporting an odd accent, and using the most subtle of expressions and body language to show what he's thinking. Lansbury is terrific and looks great, Bosley is excellent, and Prentiss is a riot as a neurotic mess.But the young girls - what memories they brought back of fantasy, crushes, wild laughter, pranks, and complete devastation. Phenomenal direction by George Roy Hill, gorgeous cinematography, great music. A no-miss if you want to recapture days of record albums, sitting on your bedroom floor with your friends, scrapbooks dedicated to the love of your life, hating teachers, and complete, uninhibited, euphoric daring.