a new movie, “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, in select theaters now and streaming on Amazon Prime Video Friday, tells his story.“He made the cat his own,” the science-fiction writer H.G.
Wells once said. “He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. British cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.”Despite his wild popularity, Wain died in 1939 at the age of 79 nearly penniless and in a psychiatric hospital.
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