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Bikini Beach is a 1964 American teen film directed by William Asher and starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. The film belongs to the beach party genre of movies, popular in the 1960s. This is the third in the series of seven films produced by American International Pictures (AIP). [4] [5]
McCrea was an avid body builder, and the only actor appearing in the American International Pictures beach movies who could surf. The film was a big hit, and after appearing in Law of the Lawless (1964) and The Greatest Show on Earth, McCrea reprised his performance as Deadhead in Muscle Beach Party (1964) and Bikini Beach (1964). [10]
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, ... Bikini Beach, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer and Don Rickles; Black God, ...
AIP followed up with Muscle Beach Party barely seven months later in March 1964, and Bikini Beach, released only four months after that, was the highest-grossing film in their history – as well as the highest-grossing film of the genre.
The other films in this series are Beach Party (1963), Muscle Beach Party (1964), Bikini Beach (1964), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965), Ski Party a one-off film with a brief beach scene at the end (1965) and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966).
Bikini Beach: William Asher: Frankie Avalon, ... 1964 films at the Internet Movie Database; List of 1964 box office number-one films in the United States
Also popular were the follow ups to Beach Party, Muscle Beach Party (1964) and Bikini Beach (1964). [22] Billboard advertisement for Annette's Beach Party, July 20, 1963. When she was cast in her first beach movie, Walt Disney requested that she wear only modest bathing suits and keep her navel covered.
The surfboards used in the film were by Phil of Downey, California – aka Phil Sauers, the maker of "Surfboards of the Stars." [8] Sauers was also the stunt coordinator for another beach party film that used his surfboards, Columbia Pictures' Ride the Wild Surf, which was released later the same year. Sauers was even portrayed in that film as ...