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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).
The follow ups to Beach Party, Muscle Beach Party (1964) and Bikini Beach (1964) [22] were also popular. 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.
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.
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, ...
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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