Cat Dancers

Cat Dancers
Directed byHarris Fishman
CinematographyAmanda Micheli
Edited byAlexis Spraic
Release dates
  • June 2007 (2007-06) (LA Film Festival)
  • December 15, 2008 (2008-12-15)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited States

Cat Dancers is a 2007 HBO documentary film about Ron Holiday (his stage name; real name Ron Guay) and his wife Joy Holiday (her stage name; married name Doris Guay; birth name Doris Gagnon) and their jaguar, panther and tiger show. It is directed by Harris Fishman.[1]

The 75-minute documentary charts how Ron Holiday, Joy Holiday and Chuck Lizza, aka the "Cat Dancers", became one of the world's first exotic tiger entertainment acts. For years the trio shared a happy if unorthodox life as performers and lovers until a pair of bizarre cat-related deaths brought their story to a tragic end.[2] The film premiered at the 2007 LA Film Festival.[3]

  1. ^ Koehler, Robert (July 4, 2007). "Cat Dancers". Variety. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  2. ^ [1] 'Cat Dancers' on HBO Documentary Films
  3. ^ Crabtree, Sheigh (June 20, 2007). "The beast comes out". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 8, 2021.