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Surfers loathed them, teenagers flocked to them, critics dismissed them, producers banked on them—surf and beach movies. For a short time in the 1960s they were extremely popular with younger audiences—mainly because of the shirtless surfer boys and bikini-clad beach girls, the musical performers, and the wild surfing footage.
This lavishly illustrated filmography details 32 sizzling fun-in-the-sun teenage epics from Gidget to the Beach Party movies with Frankie and Annette to The Sweet Ride plus a few offshoots in the snow!) Entries include credits, plot synopses, memorable lines, reviews and awards, and commentary from such as Aron Kincaid of The Girls on the Beach, Susan Hart of The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, Peter Brown of Ride the Wild Surf, Chris Noel of Beach Ball, and Ed Garner of Beach Blanket Bingo. Biographies of actors and leading actresses who made their marks in the genre are included.
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword Aron Kincaid 1
Preface 5
Introduction 7
Part I The Movies
1 Gidget (1959) 29
2 Where the Boys Are (1960) 38
3 Blue Hawaii (1961) 50
4 Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) 61
5 Beach Party (1963) 71
6 Bikini Beach (1964) 86
7 For Those Who Think Young (1964) 97
8 The Horror of Party Beach (1964) 109
9 Muscle Beach Party (1964) 117
10 Pajama Party (1964) 128
11 Ride the Wild Surf (1964) 139
12 Surf Party (1964) 151
13 Beach Ball (1965) 158
14 Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) 170
15 The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965) 181
16 Daytona Beach Weekend (1965) 189
17 Girl Happy (1965) 193
18 The Girls on the Beach (1965) 204
19 How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) 215
20 One Way Wahine (1965) 224
21 Ski Party (1965) 229
22 A Swingin' Summer (1965) 241
23 Wild on the Beach (1965) 252
24 Winter a-Go-Go (1965) 261
25 The Endless Summer (1966) 270
26 The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) 282
27 Out of Sight (1966) 295
28 Wild Wild Winter (1966) 306
29 Catalina Caper (1967) 315
30 Don't Make Waves (1967) 324
31 It's a Bikini World (1967) 334
32 The Sweet Ride (1968) 343
Part II The Players
John Ashley 353
Frankie Avalon 355
Peter Brown 358
James Darren 361
Sandra Dee 363
Mickey Dora 367
Don Edmonds 369
Shelley Fabares 373
Johnny Fain 376
Annette Funicello 378
Ed Garner 380
Susan Hart 383
Aron Kincaid 385
Tommy Kirk 390
Jody McCrea 393
Yvette Mimieux 396
Mike Nader 399
Chris Noel 402
Quinn O'Hara 405
Bart Patton 407
Pamela Tiffin 410
Deborah Walley 413
William Wellman, Jr. 415
Bibliography 419
Index 433
Overview
Surfers loathed them, teenagers flocked to them, critics dismissed them, producers banked on them—surf and beach movies. For a short time in the 1960s they were extremely popular with younger audiences—mainly because of the shirtless surfer boys and bikini-clad beach girls, the musical performers, and the wild surfing footage.
This lavishly illustrated filmography details 32 sizzling fun-in-the-sun teenage epics from Gidget to the Beach Party movies with Frankie and Annette to ...