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Palm Springs Weekend is a 1963 Warner Bros. bedroom comedy film directed by Norman Taurog. [2] It has elements of the beach party genre (AIP's Beach Party became a smash hit in July, while Warner Bros. was still putting this film together [3]) and has been called "a sort of Westernized version of Where the Boys Are" by Billboard magazine. [4]
He played the over-protective Police Chief Dixon in the 1963 spring break film Palm Springs Weekend, in which he attempts to prevent his daughter from seeing student Jim Munroe (Troy Donahue). In 1965, he appeared on David Janssen's ABC series, The Fugitive.
November 1963 5 November Palm Springs Weekend; 6 November Gunfight at Comanche Creek; 7 November Carry On Cabby (United Kingdom) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; 13 November The Skydivers; Sunday in New York; Take Her, She's Mine; 14 November The Wheeler Dealers; 18 November The Victors; 20 November The Incredible Journey; 23 November McLintock ...
United Artists. 6 Academy Award nominations with 1 win; top-grossing film of 1963 Jason and the Argonauts: Don Chaffey: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman: Fantasy: Columbia: Johnny Cool: William Asher: Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jim Backus: Crime: United Artists: Kings of the Sun: J. Lee Thompson: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris ...
There are far worse places to be stuck for eternity than Palm Springs. Like Punxsutawney, the town Bill Murray can’t escape in “Groundhog Day,” for example. So many copycat time-loop movies ...
Stevens' popularity on the small screen and as a recording star encouraged Warner Bros. to try her in films. She starred in three films for the studio, all opposite Troy Donahue: Parrish (1961), as a rural girl; Susan Slade (1962), playing the title role, an unwed mother; and Palm Springs Weekend (1963), a teen romantic comedy. [17]
He did appear in a nearly beach-party film, Palm Springs Weekend (1963), alongside several other Warner Bros. players. His final film for Warner Bros was the 1964 western A Distant Trumpet, the last film of director Raoul Walsh. [11]
With the world coming to a total standstill in the pandemic, Andy Samberg’s quirky time-loop rom-com genre mashup Palm Springs became a representation of everyone’s emotional isolation, and a ...