Beach celebration movies – Inspirational anime

Over the weekend, I decided to rewatch all the beach celebration movies, the American worldwide teen film series that started in 1963 starring Frankie Avalon as well as Annette Funicello. Here’s the list, with IMDB links.

Beach Party
Muscle beach Party
Bikini Beach
Pajama Party
Ski Party
Beach blanket Bingo
How to stuff a Wild Bikini

If you’ve never seen them, go checked out about them as well as inspect out the cast lists. There’s something weirdly captivating about all of them. For instance, as the very first one opens, Frankie as well as Annette are pulling as much as a beach house, just the two of them. They’re speaking about exactly how being alone together is just like being married, only it’s truly code for sex. They’ve gone away together to do it! only Annette’s gotten chilly feet, so she’s invited about 20 of their good friends to accident with them. as well as then she wonders why Frankie takes up with the regional hot foreign blonde.

The second as well as third have Don Rickles as a beach neighbor, very first running a fitness center as well as then a bar. (It’s for the kids, he says. We don’t have cigarette machines or serve alcohol, only beer as well as soft drinks. different world back then.) The third likewise has Frankie playing a double function as the Potato Bug, a British pop star whom all the women go crazy over. One IMDB reviewer phone calls it the very best of the group, as well as I believe they’re right.

After that, the series is quite clearly looking for new inspiration. Ski celebration is just terrible (featuring a Bosom Buddies-like drag plot for Frankie as well as Dwayne Hickman), as well as Pajama celebration is a misnomer, since they’re still in bikinis by the pool up until the last third of the film. Frankie’s not even in that one (although he lends a vocal cameo), replaced by Tommy Kirk as a Martian sent to discover out more about Earthlings. It likewise has Buster Keaton, of all people, as an American Indian stereotype gone along with by a Swedish dumpling who uses bit as well as states nothing however “Yah, yah”.

Elsa Lanchester as well as Dorothy Lamour likewise guest-star, as well as the latter does a oddly catchy musical number about dance styles called “In My Day, We never Did It That Way”. She’s still got the moves, as well as I believe two of the backup dancers are Toni Basil as well as Teri Garr!

If you watch them, be generous. recognize that the second with fourth all came out in one year, 1964, which meant they were quickie productions. The tunes are frothy fun, though, as well as the movies provide a wild glimpse into what people believed teen life utilized to be like. You’ll likewise to get to see a extremely young “Little Stevie Wonder” as well as a creepy-looking Dick Dale lip-synching in movies two as well as three.

But the strangest number of all is the short bit ditty from Pajama celebration in which Annette sings about exactly how stuffed animals are much better than boys. “A stuffed animal never talks back.” “A stuffed animal is more than a toy.” “A stuffed animal never states no.” …. ummm… exactly how huge is her stuffed lion?

The woman in yellow is Susan Hart, who married one of the American worldwide co-founders, as well as in pink is Donna Loren, the singer as well as Dr. Pepper girl.

It seems that many of these movies are being re-released next month in the Frankie & Annette MGM movie Legends Collection. Sadly, provided the title, they had to leave out Pajama celebration (now out of print), however you do get two racing films in its place, as well as it’s a excellent value.

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