Beach Ball (film)

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Beach Ball
Directed by Lennie Weinrib
Produced by Bart Patton
Gene Corman
Written by David Malcolm
Starring Edd Byrnes
Cinematography Floyd Crosby
Edited by Karl Ward
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • 1965 (1965)
Running time
 83 mins
Country USA
Language English
Budget $100,000 [1]

Beach Ball is a 1965 American beach party movie starring Edd Byrnes and partly financed by Roger Corman. [2]

Edd Byrnes American actor

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It features appearances by The Supremes and The Righteous Brothers. [3]

The Supremes American Motown female singing group

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The Righteous Brothers American singing duo

The Righteous Brothers were originally an American musical duo of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. They began performing together in 1962 in the Los Angeles area as part of a five-member group called the Paramours, but adopted the name "The Righteous Brothers" when they embarked on their recording career as a duo. Their most active recording period was in the 1960s and 70s, and although the duo was inactive for some years, Hatfield and Medley reunited in 1981 and continued to perform until Hatfield's death in 2003. Their emotive vocal style is sometimes dubbed "blue-eyed soul".

Cast

Chris Noel is an American actress. Star of a dozen beach party movies in the 1960s, she is perhaps best known by veterans of the Vietnam war for her work on the Armed Forces Radio And Television Service as the "Voice of Vietnam". Noel made frequent visits to troops and was shot down twice in helicopters. Her radio program "A Date With Chris" is fondly remembered by many Vietnam vets. Her pin up pictures were very popular.

Robert Logan actor

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Gail Gilmore was a Canadian television and film actress and ballet dancer. She was from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Production

Stephanie Rothman worked on the movie as a production assistant.

Stephanie Rothman is an American film director, producer and screenwriter, known for her low-budget independent exploitation films made in the 1960s and 1970s, especially The Student Nurses (1970) and Terminal Island (1974).

Tommy Kirk was originally announced as male star. [4]

Tommy Kirk American actor and businessman

Thomas Lee Kirk is an American former actor and later a businessman. He is best known for his performances in a number of highly popular movies made by Walt Disney Studios such as Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog, The Swiss Family Robinson and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, as well as beach-party movies of the mid-1960s.

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References

  1. ↑ Tom Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969, McFarland 2005, p161
  2. ↑ Ed. J. Philip di Franco, The Movie World of Roger Corman, Chelsea House Publishers, 1979 p 145
  3. ↑ Tom Lisant, 'Reliving the Guilty Pleasure of Beach Ball', Cinema Retro March 4, 2008
  4. ↑ 'Featured Roles', Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 30 Nov 1964: C21.


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