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Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969
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.
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.
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919 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 1, 2005
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October 28, 2008
All you ever wanted to know (and more) about the Beach Party and Surfing movies of the 1960's.
With biographies of the most prominent participants, and interviews with a few of them, this book gives the facts on several of the most popular (and a couple of the most obscure) films of the genre.
Each film is given a rating for such data as Girl (and Boy) Watching and Music.
The photos are a bit lacking - mostly b/w reproductions of color Lobby Cards - but a few of the stills are new.
If you wonder who the pretty dancing blonde from the Beach Party movies is, if you want to know what Aron Kincaid thought of his career....if you know who Aron is...this might be the book for you.
With biographies of the most prominent participants, and interviews with a few of them, this book gives the facts on several of the most popular (and a couple of the most obscure) films of the genre.
Each film is given a rating for such data as Girl (and Boy) Watching and Music.
The photos are a bit lacking - mostly b/w reproductions of color Lobby Cards - but a few of the stills are new.
If you wonder who the pretty dancing blonde from the Beach Party movies is, if you want to know what Aron Kincaid thought of his career....if you know who Aron is...this might be the book for you.
July 21, 2023
The Beach movies.... An extensive trivia loaded book.Everything you need to know.
This is the book if you could only choose one for all that is the beach surf films. Done miss out.
This is the book if you could only choose one for all that is the beach surf films. Done miss out.
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