See all the picture-purrfect stars at the Cats world premiere

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Maureen Lee Lenker
Author Maureen Lee Lenker
Maureen Lee Lenker

Maureen Lee Lenker is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly with over seven years of experience in the entertainment industry. An award-winning journalist, she's written for Turner Classic Movies, Ms. Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, and more. She's worked at EW for six years covering film, TV, theater, music, and books. The author of EW's quarterly romance review column, "Hot Stuff," Maureen holds Master's degrees from both the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford. Her debut novel, It Happened One Fight, is now available. Follow her for all things related to classic Hollywood, musicals, the romance genre, and Bruce Springsteen.

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Published on December 16, 2019 07:43PM EST
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Cats world premiere

Universal Pictures Presents The World Premiere Of Cats
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Lincoln Center was the cat's meow on Monday night when the stars of Cats turned out for the world premiere. Ahead of the film clawing its way into theaters on Friday, the cast and fans prowled the carpet in their best for the Jellicle Ball. Soon these looks will be but a memory (all alone in the moonlight), but click through to relive the purr-fect style fur-ever.

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Taylor Swift

"Cats" World Premiere
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"Cats" World Premiere
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Jennifer Hudson

Cats Premiere
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Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson

Universal Pictures Presents The World Premiere Of Cats
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Idris Elba and Taylor Swift

Universal Pictures Presents The World Premiere Of Cats
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Jennifer Hudson, Francesca Hayward, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, and Jason Derulo

Universal Pictures Presents The World Premiere Of Cats
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James Corden

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Rebel Wilson

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Jason Derulo

"Cats" World Premiere
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Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Jennifer Hudson and Idris Elba

"Cats" World Premiere
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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Taylor Swift

"Cats" World Premiere
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Rebel Wilson and Tom Hooper

"Cats" World Premiere
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Betty Buckley

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Idris Elba and wife Sabrina Dhowre Elba

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Jonathan Van Ness and Antoni Porowski

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Nile Rodgers

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Beanie Feldstein

Beanie Feldstein
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Jennifer Nettles

Jennifer Nettles
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Jordan Roth

Jordan Roth
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