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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]
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 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] He recorded a 45 rpm single in 1964 for Canjo Records to coincide with the film Bikini Beach (side A: "Chicken Surfer"/Side B: "Looney ...
Although both Columbia Pictures's Gidget (1959) and Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) have been cited as precursors to the genre, in that Gidget "launched surfing into mainstream America," [14] [15] while its sequel merely repeated the effort, AIP had actually established an archetype for Beach Party with 1958's Hot Rod Gang and especially with its 1959 sequel Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow, both written ...
Title Director Cast Genre Note 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt: Tommy Noonan: Mamie Van Doren, Tommy Noonan: Comedy: Independent: 633 Squadron: Walter Grauman: Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy
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).
The surfboards used in the film were by Phil of Downey, California – aka Phil Sauers, the maker of "Surfboards of the Stars." [9] 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 ...
Muscle Beach Party (1964) Bikini Beach (1964) Pajama Party (1964) Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) Ski Party (1965) How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) Sergeant Deadhead (1965)* Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)* Fireball 500 (1966) Thunder Alley (1967)* * Avalon appeared in every film except The Ghost ...