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If Carolyn Pfeiffer’s life were a movie, it would strain credulity. Her new memoir, Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life, traces Pfeiffer’s improbable journey from small-town North Carolina into the epicenter of European cinema in the 1960s. There she became a confidant to a wax museum’s worth of famous names—everyone from Omar Sharif to Claudia Cardinale to the Beatles—while bearing witness to the making of epochal films like Doctor Zhivago and Federico Fellini’s 8 ½, all against a backdrop of sweeping social change. In the 1970s, Pfeiffer returned to America to cofound her own production company, where she oversaw titles such as Kiss of the Spider Woman, Koyaanisqatsi, and Stop Making Sense before moving into academia, heading up the Los Angeles…

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