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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).
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]
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.
Title Director Cast Genre Note Dark Purpose: George Marshall: Shirley Jones, George Sanders: Drama: Universal: Dead Ringer: Paul Henreid: Bette Davis, Karl Malden ...
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.
Muscle Beach Party is the second of seven beach party films produced by American International Pictures. It stars Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello and was directed by William Asher , who also directed four other films in this series.
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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).