Beach party films

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Beach Party movies have been an American 1960s genre of feature films which often starred Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. Walt Disney reluctantly consented to Funicello, a former fundamental forged member of The Mickey Mouse Club, wearing a bikini. The series turned into originally supposed as a low-finances imitation of each the Elvis Presley musical and the Doris Day intercourse comedy, aimed toward the teenager market, but they ended up taking on a existence of their own. The "classic" collection was produced by American International Pictures (AIP), and imitated in turn by using severa different studios. AIP produced a sequence of seven seaside films:Beach Party (1963), Muscle Beach Party (1963), Bikini Beach (1964), Pajama Party (1964), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965), and The Ghost within the Invisible Bikini (1966).

The 1965 AIP film Ski Party (with Dwayne Hickman, Yvonne Craig, Lesley Gore and James Brown) employed many of the same actors and schticks, simplest transplanted to a ski resort in the Sawtooth National Forest. Susan Hart, wife of AIP co-founder James H. Nicholson, was in The Ghost within the Invisible Bikini and Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine as well as two non-AIP seashore movies, For Those Who Think Young and Ride the Wild Surf.

The 1996 movie That Thing You Do! Touches briefly at the phenomenon, with the Wonders making an appearance in a fictional seaside party movie, Weekend at Party Pier. A 2001 episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch ("Beach Blanket Bizarro") also paid homage to the series, with Avalon performing as himself. Avalon and Funicello starred in Paramount Pictures Back to the Beach in 1987, gambling off their authentic roles and next careers. Kelly Killoren Bensimon wrote in The Bikini Book, "It was absolutely all approximately Annette Funicello. If the female round the corner desired to wear a bikini, then absolutely everyone wanted to wear a bikini. We did not need to be a horrific Bond girl. We all genuinely wanted to be the good lady." However, when Annette Funicello changed into cast in her first seaside film Beach Party (1963), Walt Disney, who held her contract, insisted that she only wear modest bathing suits and keep her navel covered, to preserve her wholesome persona, though she become the simplest one of the ample quantity of younger girls in the film now not displaying her navel.