Beach Blanket Bingo

[sprucetree49]

Frankie and Annette were really nice people for sure.

[KeiKitten]

My mum's favorite show when she was a teenager and now my favorite show!!! Lol

[juliangonzalezx]

MEIN LAND

[juliangonzalezx]

Rammstein.

[Willow698]

Okay I keep staring at her hair. How in the world did they get it that big????

[Makiba08]

lol shaking your bootie for the cameras....reminds me of 1990s videos

[neeqlexy]

Thumbs up if you're here for an English project

[jeanjiwooyi]

@neeqlexy haha...mrs. galvan?

[neeqlexy]

@jeanjiwooyi Yeah :D

[tisistehfat]

@neeqlexy wow you actually did it on the weekend

[TripleAAA0826]

@neeqlexy cornell notes isnt a project

[heyfuzzycub]

@neeqlexy lol what kind of English project involves Beach Blanket Bingo???

[neeqlexy]

@heyfuzzycub lool . Research on the 50s (:

[heyfuzzycub]

@neeqlexy but... this was the 60s. *confusion*

[nerdwonder]

Hey is that Buster Keaton?

[delltube777]

Takes me back to when I was 10

[lisaleeharpwaugh]

SIMPLY THE BEST!

[desert3347]

i went to the movies and saw all "The Beach" Movies- They were prety awful

but "Annette" made Watching them worthwhile.

Could Not Take My Eyes Off Her!!

[TerminatorC]

Like this if you came looking for the tall blonde with the pink bikini

[Jlady43]

love this movie fav frankie and annette movie

[chorusspike]

I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 70s and these movies were a staple on UHF channel 56 on Saturday afternoons. I used to wish people would do the twist on the beaches during the summers but maybe the water was too cold or the summer season was too short. Or maybe it was cultural: New Englanders just didn't dance in public like Californians did. It was a mystery to me. The movies were mindless fun, silly, colorful, even in black and white. I miss them sometimes.

[hebneh]

This always makes me think of the scene in "Good Morning Vietnam" when the main character (Robin Williams) takes his Vietnamese girlfriend to see this on their first date (chaperoned by her family, I think) and the version that's shown in the theater is dubbed in Vietnamese, with subtitles in English, French, and Chinese. The scene makes Frankie and Annette seem very out of place in the context of what Vietnam was like during the war in the 1960s.

[drummer510]

When the ball is tossed up at 0:58, it comes down at the same shot that the Coen bothers knock in The Big Lebowski. Nice..

[rob1tnt]

Oh Annette is absolutely adorable!

[TheDejael]

Yeah we had a great time! It was all in fun, and there was nothing serious going on.

Annette had complained to the producers since they shot the first few Beach Party movies in the winter months and she didn't like that, so on the movie I was in, the last one of the series, they filmed it in the last few weeks of June 1965, right after my high school graduation. It was in theaters less than 3 months later!

[TheDejael]

Beach Blanket Bingo was a term which meant having sex under a blanket at the beach. That's what it meant in 1964, and I'm sure it still means the same thing now.

I was surprised at the movie's title when it first came out when I was in high school, I knew what it meant because I was going surfing at the beach a lot, and I was clued into all the cool hip lingo in use in SoCal then. I laughed, and then when I went to see it the movie was fun, but no sex going on, that's for sure.

[dramusic]

Every household should have a copy of this movie on hand, just in case it runs out of ipecap syrup.

[JENDALL714]

Is Bingo code for hitting it on the Beach Blanket? Isn't the word Bingo used for when someone gets something right, you say BINGO! So if you are scoring on a Beach Blanket, you say BINGO, I got this!

[Paulbarbato]

Considering the year this was made I could see a LOT of people getting angry and protesting the "obscene, provocative imagery" However we see something like this nowadays and think "Meh, whatever, this looks cheesy"

[musicaltheatergeek79]

Annette and Frankie look considerably older than the other kids on the beach. Annette's hair and makeup and one-piece suit doesn't help, nor does Frankie's heavily lined face. They look more like parents chaperoning a school trip to the beach.

[Babspace]

@musicaltheatergeek79 He was 26, she was 23. Hardly old enough to be the parents of high schoolers.

[musicaltheatergeek79]

@Babspace I said they LOOK considerably older than the other young people on the beach. Quite frankly, Annette looks like a frumpy mom in her '30s who's already popped out 3 kids, with her squat figure in that one-piece bathing suite and that hairdo and heavy makeup.

[Babspace]

@musicaltheatergeek79 You're used to seeing 13 year olds dolled up to look 25. This was the hot look of the youth of the day, peewee.

[Satine8541]

This is a guilty pleasure for me. I loved watching Frankie and Annette in these beach movies. They are cheesey, but I don't care they are just good wholesome fun to watch.

[kurtb8474]

Those crazy kids! They oughta be ashamed of themselves! Cavorting on the beach with hardly any clothes on. Where are their parents?

[kellys56able]

this is a very go go movie to sing along with.Jane

[TheDejael]

Cool!! I was in the last Beach Party movie, "HOW TO STUFF A WILD BIKINI" in the summer of 1965, filmed at Santa Monica Beach and Malibu Beach. I did three days of extra work as one of the kids dancing on the beach in the background, at the end of June, and it was great! Frankie and Annette were the nicest people! It was a blast! I also made friends with Jody McCrea, son of western star Joel McCrea, and we worked together again 5 years later on a western movie titled CRY BLOOD APACHE.

[bob343536]

@TheDejael That's great. Did you ever meet John Ashley? (I had a huge crush on him) If so, what did you think of him?

[TheDejael]

@bob343536 , yes I did meet him, when we had breaks between shooting I would say hello to people and do remember him, but hey I was 18 then and all I could think about was those cute chicks in bikinis all over the place! Harvey Lembeck was a kick, he was from Brooklyn, and always telling jokes.

[bob343536]

@TheDejael Thanks. Those movies looked so fun to make.

[HumongousJohnson]

@TheDejael Hey, remember me from Cinema Treasures, Moviemanforever, from Inglewood. I saw everyone of these films, most of them at the Fox Inglewood on Market Street. I remember Donna Loren's deep, soul-tinged voice and Stevie Wonder blowing everyone away in Bikini Beach when he sang at the end of the film. Remember Annette with lines like, "Oh, Frankie, I want to be a woman, I want to be a wife!"

[fletchergatsby]

@TheDejael - don't leave us hanging dude!! On the "Wild Bikini" videos point out who you were - or comment on some of the scenes, doggonit!! Love hearing all the inside-stuff on these fun, fun movies (I was just a little kid but my earliest earliest memories of watching this one, Beach Blanket Bingo, on TV (I must have been 4 or so - so perhaps it was 1969 or such) ...having first amorous feelings tied to Annette and Candy and Lorelei ... everytime I see this on TCM it brings it all back.

[JENDALL714]

Annette only wore one piece bathing suits because Walt Disney asked her to. She did not have any obligation to do so since she was no longer under Disney contract, but she did out of respect for Walt.

[Spartacus217]

Beach Blanket Boner!

[chad2CCC]

My camp did a spinoff sort of play with this. I was bonehead.:)

[leng21]

Although I enjoy watching these "beach party" flicks, I still consider the time spent on them a "guilty pleasure." Most have silly plots and even sillier musical numbers. But of the bunch made popular in the 1960's, I find "Beach Blanket Bingo" to be by far the best; entertaining story lines, good cast, above-average soundtrack, and fabulous cameo appearances such as the one by the late, great film comedian, Buster Keaton. He is seen doing a comedy bit at the end of this video clip.

[motownmaniax]

There was certainly a lot of eye candy on "that" beach. ;-)

[MusicMasterJames]

me and my dad were watching this and he told me to chage it before he threw up

[TheJazzlady40]

my fav beach movie

[mmitchellhouston]

I was only a kid in the 1960s, but we hit the beaches in California. I recall many a wahini swinging in her bikini. It was a magical time.

[70CadillacMan]

In the credits I noticed william asher wrote & directed this. He later went on to create Bewitched and married Elizabeth Mongomery.

[hobokenplayboy]

@70CadillacMan Bill Asher married Elizabeth Montgomery during late 1963. She had to wait until her divorce from actor Gig Young was finalized. Gig Young was a very nasty drunk and Liz had to walk away from him to save herself. She had a cameo in the first one released in 1963. You have to look quickly to see her, but it is her.

Ironically, Gig Y. lost the Waco Kid role in Blazing Saddles beause he vomitted green ooze on set the first day. Gene Wilder had to step in immediately.

[ElvertonNu]

perfection achieved!!

[Chino355]

Horny BASTARD'S!!!! ha ha ha ha

[alainag101]

i loveeeeeeee this movie!!!!!

[scottmyers63]

They don't make beach movies like they did in the 1960s anymore.

[OceanTribeTheMovie]

Check out the SURFBOARDS BY PHIL website

[stalzz]

Annette was HOT. Nom Nom. As was Linda Evans in this film. I own all of the Beach Party films released by American International. I love the cheesy film genre!

Harvey Lembeck as Eric Von Zipper ROCKS!

[ElectricShark]

Annette has a wonderful hourglass figure! Killer curves!

The girl at 0:11 dancing..........she was gorgeous too and she was such an amazing dancer. Patti Chandler..........a very lovely girl.

[Alexifish]

wait, at 1:22, does the main guy eat ice cream off the other boy's face? lol

[WOWJBEOWULF]

Beach Blanket Bingo, a sign of the times; victory World War Two and the baby boom during economic expansion and growth. The Bikini was so risqué that many models would not wear it, and the bikini was named after the atomic bomb testing site Bikini Islands--explosive, hot stuff. The United States was feeling good and a new style of dress obviously found its way into the movies. Bikini still has an effect as Spongebob Squarepants comes from Bikini Bottom--must be the radiation.

[rocknrollphilip]

mary hughes eating the ice cream cone, right?

[CandyKane1]

Yes, Mary Hughes. Was there a more beautiful woman?

[trayguy]

I sure do miss those days.Anntte Funicello was HOT HOT HOT!!!

[lefty5128]

You just can't beat a clean cut Frankie and Annette flick to get you feeling all nostalgic, on the upside however, after ten minutes of this stuff one can feel suicidal.

For those lovers of camp cinema or don't have a life.

[sybermen]

Esta pelicula fue transmitida por la desaparecida TV-N 5 en Venezuela. yo era un niño cuando la ví al lado de mi madre de verdad la disfrutamos.

[lillily174]

DOOHICKEY

[IwillKillYourCereal]

these beach movies were so stupid, but so sentimental :)

[catbird007]

@IwillKillYourCereal It's called showbiz sweetheart

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Great movie.

I watched this many times on TV as a kid.

I still love it.

Thanks for posting the theme song/video from Beach Blanket Bingo.

George Vreeland Hill

[nicknorthable]

Gotta love Buster Keaton ....Must have been one of his last appearances...He past in "66...RIP old timer...*

[anthem11212]

I wish that youtube would put the movies from Frankie and Annette on here.

[normaj62]

i cant wrap my mind around a societal environment that produces something like this seriously- its so halarious!

[caldragon7]

I always loved seeing Eric Von Zipper in these flicks...he was halarious!

[blabblab1212]

All the lesbo's and faggots playing straight characters was funny too.

[blabblab1212]

40 playing 17! You gotta love the 60's.

[SandySummers]

Who's the guy dancing on the surfboard with Linda Opie?

[therealraybaby]

I used to love this movie when I was a kid and annette was such a fox. Something bout those GROOVY 60's!

[eagle45147]

I read someplace that a guy said people come to the beach expecting it to be like the beach movies. The "Summer Nights" song in Grease was filmed near where the beach movies were filmed. IMDB We would go see it at the drive in back in Iowa. Dad had it for Annette. Sadly the drive in is now a car lot.. We still have a drive in theater operating West of this twon in SW Ohio.

[tchimmerroks]

Frankie's hair looks like the stage costumes of the rock band Primus

[roberttwfsm]

Classic movie, classic icon!!!! LONG LIVE ANNETTE!!!!!BEACH BLANKET BINGO LIVES!!!

[Firebrdsuite]

@roberttwfsm Annette A Mousketeer as well!

[walleyrt69]

@Halo101st That is a wonderful comment and how true you are.Women singers and actresses can learn alot about having (class & grace )and how to cut out the smut and not look like whores.What todays youth need are good roll models,Forget the Brittany Spears types and look at the Taylor Swifts of this generation.God bless the old days.i just hope its not to late to turn things around.

[Halo101st]

@walleyrt69 I teach at a major university and, unfortunately, I do not see the trend changing. To return to being wholesome is to return to taking responsibility and discipline for one's self. Todays kids want none of that, they want someone else to everything for them because they are lazy, arrive to college semi-educated, and feel entitled to that which we were proud to work for and earn. They are such a sad lot.

[walleyrt69]

@Halo101st ----That is why,Im sad to say,We as a country are doomed.Sooner or later.What happened to the Pioneer spirit.China's going to walk rite over us.They already voted in a secret Communist in the White House.

[Halo101st]

@walleyrt69 Just remember to vote! Encourage everyone you know to vote these liberal left-wingers out of office in November. Then, do it again in 2012. These warmed-over '60's liberals/hippies have run their course and America sees them for what they truly are... losers and anti-Americans.

[walleyrt69]

@Halo101st Unfortunately,noone saw him and his cronies for what they are before the election like we did.I just hope the damage of these communists isnt to bad to redo and fix.I live in the midwest aswell and I have a hard time finding anyone that voted for these miserable tyrants.Except of cource the herds of sheeple in the major cities.I just shake my head everyday and pray for the America we once had.If it aint to late.

[lloyddobblerNJ]

@Halo101st

lol... old people are funny. ...conservatives are even more funny.

Hey everybody, let's turn a Frankie and Annette thread into a political conversation about how great Cheney and his cronies were for our country. I mean, things were in such great shape in Nov. 2008, and we're not out of the recession yet... you know, the one that was supposed to be as bad as the great depression. ...oh wait... what? Three straight quarters of GDP growth....wtf??

[Halo101st]

@lloyddobblerNJ Spoken like a true socialist lacky. Also, if you follow the trend of the conversation you will see how the subjects you seem to hate so much came up. Then again, comprehensive reading is not your strong suit, is it?

Three quarters of what? You mean the economic crisis we are now in because of that boot-lipped sicialist in the White House now? Do not even go there, sporto.

[013108today]

@Halo101st

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Halo101st]

@013108today Go back and read the conversation from the beginning. The conversation sort of 'evolved' away from my original comment made six months ago. Why I do not know.

[MsStaciejm]

@Halo101st

I'm 36yrs old and NEVER wore a swim suit as skimpy as the chicks in this flick...and neither will either of my daughters when they "develop" ;). BTW - how did Annette get her top part to look so...ummm...pointy in that suit?

[Halo101st]

@MsStaciejm I just enjoyed/enjoy looking... besides, those are not what I would call 'skimpy.'

Maybe Annette exercised a lot?

[eldoronki1981]

@Halo101st today's girls are mostly lesbians!

[Halo101st]

@eldoronki1981 I no longer date girls that age anymore, I teach them. I have not seen any drift towards lesbianism, though. For that matter, I have never seen girls practice lesbianism more in any one era than another. With rare exceptions, lesbians seem to have the good sense to stay out of straight peoples faces with it. Unlike the drama queens of the male sex who cannot wait to cry all over your shoulder because they are "gay" and want special dispensation because they are such 'victims.'

[eldoronki1981]

@Halo101st What about Lindsay Lohan? have u seen her? and Ellen Degeneres? lesbians and proud!

[Halo101st]

@eldoronki1981 Yeah, yeah, and Drew Barrymore and Angelina Jolie who also claim to have had homosexual relations. Those four women out of how many millions, are not even enough to make a ratio. Just because four women are, or have tried it, does not make an entire generation of lesbians. You lose.

[eldoronki1981]

@Halo101st I do so hope to lose, but many people don't see how these four became more than idol for the girls, and how blindly today's women fall for the things they hear and see. But anyhow, i hope i'm wrong.

[Halo101st]

@eldoronki1981 That is a valid point. Today's kids are vulnerable and do not, because they cannot, think for themselves any longer. They have been trained not to think in school and are prime targets for such influences. Fortunately, such 'influences' are no longer vogue and are "same old, same old" boring.

[lookatdoor]

@eldoronki1981 I wish.

[dmullsr]

My favorite movie of all time !!!

[spoilermdc]

gay!

[flattilre]

I like the part where Frankie eats ice cream off the other dude.

[classicphile]

I love Beach Blanket Bingo. I just cant get enough of the Beach Party films. How much I LOVE the sheer innocence of these flicks. I wish they could bottle that innocence up and sell them in stores!

[SandySummers]

Mary Hughes the blonde with the ice cream cone passed away of cancer recently. You can google it for details, if interested.

[anonyms404]

Sandy - you just into the trivia of these films - or did you know her?

[SandySummers]

Anonyms404 - I didn't know Mary, but I have talked to several people in these movies. Annette being one, the songwriters Guy Hemric & Jerry Styner, surfer girl Salli Sachse & Linda Opie, and Aron Kincaid.

[anonyms404]

That's so cool ... I'm sure the question they've gotten "were the films as much fun to make as they appear?" ...just curious if they've ever mentioned anything like that. (Also - word was that that the songwriters you mentioned wrote the title song and the film makers built the movie around it - came up with the script, stars, etc.etc. - any truth there?). Of course here's the MOST important question: Any word on how Annette's doing? (Frankie supposedly get's asked this every day).

[SandySummers]

I've never asked them if the films were fun to make. Annette said they would film during the winter months for a summer release. She said she froze to death. Annette also said that the beach sand was a turn off. One of the owners of American International Studios, James Nicholson, came up with most of the titles of the movies. Then songs were were written into the movies. My sense is that Annette is not doing well.

[anonyms404]

Thanks for sharing Sandy... I suppose if they were freezing during the making of it - that probably answers my question! (makes sense to film on days most people wouldn't be at the beach I guess).

That's so sad about Annette ...they did a special about her life and had a quick cameo of her recently and I didn't even recognize her. Good gracious ...wish there was a cure for m.s. I had such a crush on her when I was a kid. Such a sweet woman.

[SandySummers]

Your welcome Anonyms404. Dick Clark said that boys loved her and girls wanted to be her. I guess you & I are proof of that.

[anonyms404]

Yes indeed ... hopefully she'll be around for quite a few more years to come (not sure if that's the right thing to hope for given her situation, but I don't imagine she's one to give-up).

[Halo101st]

Sandy,

I cannot help but be curious as to whether you actually had anything to do with the making of the "Beach" movies, were in the films themselves, or are a knowledgeable film buff and avid fan of Annettes? Which would it be?

[SandySummers]

I'm an avid fan of Annette's, of the beach movies, and all of American International Pictures' pre 1967 movies.

[Halo101st]

Thank you for the reply. I thought as much as you appear very knowledgeable about them. Annette is a sweetheart, isn't she?

[waynedanberry]

This is pre Beatles.

[classicphile]

Post Beatles. The Beatles already had quite a few hits in the previous year of 1964. This movie came out in 1965.

[brownies4you]

I remember dating a boy when these kinds of movies were on the silver screen. He refused to pay to see these flicks because he adamantly claimed that all the boys were required to shave their arm pits because body hair was considered positively taboo to what he called: "the neurotic and ultra-sanitized American pop culture" (back then). I would tell him, "It's just a movie." He didn't want to hear it. I wonder whatever became of dear ol' Harley?

[rmpublishing]

Really is a chirpy vid isnt it.

[Maggiesimi]

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­e

[Eseercam]

2:14-2:29 OOOOPS!!!!

[acdeucee]

I do massages at my work to this song, It relaxes the customers and gets them in the mood to buy a tan...More money!.. less' Bingo playing' at the Church for me.

[SandySummers]

Who's the guy dancing on the surfboard with Linda Opie?

[kylenoelwood]

canaan st beach 6:00 tonight

[acdeucee]

Saw this at the drive in with my Mom, I was in 1st grade and I just loved seeing all the beach movies with my Mom at the drive in.

[JuliannaRatsAndaDog7]

I love this! Isn't this actually made in the 60's?

[classicphile]

Yes. This movie was made in 1965,

[JuliannaRatsAndaDog7]

Wow.

[JRRJA3]

Old time! Thank You

[hedunlap]

Which one of these guys is JD? I met the guy that played "JD" a couple of days ago. Andy Romano. He's older now, it was very interesting to talk with him. He also played Adm. Bates in the Under Seige movies.

[classicphile]

JD (Andy Romano) isnt in this opening number. He didnt play one of the Beach kids. He played a member of the Rats and Mice motorcycle gang which makes their appearance later on in this movie.

JD: "Let him talk, he aint finished yet"

Eric Von Zipper: "Thanks JD. That's short for juvenile delinquent."

[hedunlap]

Thank you.

[DoNotTreadOnMe]

I haven't seen this since I was a kid, ha ha!

[COMING4U]

the blonde 1:17 into the song is pretty hot!

[classicphile]

"the blonde 1:17 into the song is pretty hot!"

Her name is Mary Hughes. She appears in quite a few Beach Party movies, but never has any speaking lines. (unfortunately she died in Dec. 2007 of cancer). The guy into whose face she smashes her ice cream cone is actor Michael Nader. Probably best known as Dex Dexter on the 1980s prime time soap opera, Dynasty.

[missohio83]

Thank you for mentioning that! I always seen her on the beach movies and wondered who she was! Where did you find all of that info on her? Also, do you happen to know who that girl with the bun in her hair with a handband making out with that guy on the surf board is? I recognize her in the other beach movies too.

[classicphile]

The girl with the bun in her hair, and headband is Salli Sachse. Indeed, she was in quite a few of the beach movies. I have various sources, the best one being author Tom Lisanti who has interviewed the girls of the beach party movies (among many other sixties-era screen starlets) and has published his interviews in several books.

[classicphile]

By the way, there are 2 books about the Beach Party movies every beach party movie fan should have: "Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969" by Tom Lisanti, and "It's Party Time: A Musical Appreciation of the Beach Party Film Genre" by Stephen J. McParland

[johnnyblues777]

Pure Camp!

[InfinetlySupreme]

Bone Head is the best.

The chick in the Pink suit was a Mousketeer and Walt Disney had her wear a one piece to keep up her wholesome image....He didn't want her belly button showing

[jdough789]

R I P BONE HEAD

[kibbutznik19]

Um, the "chick in the Pink suit" is Annette Funicello, quite obviously. And everyone knows about the wholesome image thing.

[anonyms404]

Shoot! Did Bone head pass away? :(

[anonyms404]

Just answered my own question by going to IMDB ... yup... the big lug (and I say that with only the utmost affection for his role and acting ability) passed on from cardiac arrest at his ranch in New Mexico. Aside from Frankie, Annette and Erik Von Zipper ...he was one of the more memorable characters from these films. Sleep well Bone Head :(

[jdough789]

yes, in April.

[IronlungBeachparty]

This is why I never go to California.

[Johnabraytis]

Ain't it weird when Frankie puts that ice cream in his mouth?

[ayn911]

Bobbi Shaw and Buster Keaton lit up every scene they were in. The rest of the flick rocks as well.

[avtandect]

i love this song and movie!!!!!

[hairypolack]

I can definitely see what the boys in "Stand By Me" were talking about

[Budwatch]

i like the song at the beginng!

[CommonSence2008]

Is the entire movie of Beach Blanket Bingo uploaded onto YouTube? I'd like to watch it again.

[1985Nebraska]

I saw "Beach Blanket Bingo" on TCM last summer (2007). Before I saw this, I saw footage of it on "The Outsider," which is what the teenagers watched at the drive-in theater. But I already knew Frankie and Annette from the 1987 beach movie "Back to the Beach," which was pretty much a beach movie reunion.

[Johnabraytis]

All rock 'n' roll flows through this masterpiece!

[IrelandCladdagh]

yipppeeeeee yahoooooey :):):) a fav movie of jidhood & mega groovy thanx for posting this rockin' vid, johNUTTY :):):)

17 AHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOvations :):):)

always dream~~~dare~~~dive!!! :):):)

[chr1smedia]

crazy.. i found it ;) saw it in the movie gooooood morning vietnam ^^

[tubagirl93]

awsome 60s!!!

[rkhobo]

Ahhh California beaches in the 1960s!! Before my time...clean and pristine, just dancin', singin' and doin' the shimmy--and NO crowds! HA!

[Valizan]

@rkhobo Ha indeed! I guess no one of colour was allowed on California beaches... Or perhaps "the gang" didn't have black or oriental or latino friends, none of those in California in the sixties, right? Or perhaps they were back at all these nice teenagers houses washing, ironing, cleaning and mending all those pretty dresses curvy Miss Annette would be wearing. ::rolls his eyes:: This is an idealized America at best. Love these movies, but the innocence is totally unrealistic. :)

[indiemotronic]

this movie rules.

[loriannmd]

indeed!!!one of my all time faves