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Francis Thomas Avallone (born September 18, 1940), [2] better known as Frankie Avalon, is an American singer, actor and former teen idol. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] He had 31 charting U.S. Billboard singles from 1958 to late 1962, including number one hits, " Venus " and " Why " in 1959.
Walley signed a contract with American International Pictures, which cast her as a female lead in several comedies, all with Frankie Avalon and her husband John Ashley: Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), Ski Party (1965) and Sergeant Dead Head (1965). She sang in some of these films.
In November 1965, he signed a seven-picture deal with American International Pictures (AIP). [48] His first film for the company was alongside Beach Party stars Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in the 1966 stock car racing film Fireball 500.
Funicello and Frankie Avalon at the height of the Beach Party era. Funicello moved on from Disney to become a "teen idol", starring in a series of "Beach Party" movies with Frankie Avalon for American International Pictures. These started with Beach Party (1963) when Funicello was 21 years old.
Beach Blanket Bingo is a 1965 American beach party film directed by William Asher. [3] It is the fifth film in the Beach Party film series.The film stars Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Linda Evans, Deborah Walley, Paul Lynde, and Don Rickles.
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Hickman signed a multi-picture deal with American International Pictures. For that studio he starred in Ski Party (1965) opposite Frankie Avalon; How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) with Funicello; and Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) with Avalon and Vincent Price. He also made a cameo in Sergeant Deadhead (1965).
Teri Garr was born in Ohio in 1944 but was raised in Hollywood by an actor father, who died when she was 11, a mother who was "a Rockette at Radio City [and] a real tough cookie," as she told The ...