Pretty, perky Chris Noel was once described as “devastation in a bikini.” A former model, this green-eyed blonde was discovered while doing summer stock. With her fresh-faced, innocent look, Noel was perfectly cast as the wholesome girl-next-door looking for fun or romance on the beach, on campus, or on vacation. Wearing the skimpiest of bikinis, the effervescent actress was a highlight of a gaggle of teenage and beach films—Get Yourself a College Girl (“The swingin’-est blast ever filmed.”), Beach Ball (“Nothing bounces like Beach Ball!”), Girl Happy (“Elvis jumps with the campus crowd to make the beach ‘ball’ bounce!!!”), Wild Wild Winter (“A surfin’ snow ball!), and For Singles Only (“See how the single half lives…in co-ed pads where the unmarrieds swing 24 hours a day!”). When the beach films became passe during the late sixties, Noel segued to the biker genre with roles in The Glory Stompers and The Tormentors. No typical starlet she, Chris became the first female disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio in 1966 and began visiting Vietnam on her own to help boost the morale of the GIs. Her devotion to our military has never stopped and she dfounded Ceasefire House in Florida to help homeless Vietnam vets. Read more about Chris Noel in my books Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema and Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave. Or check out the many books Chris Noel has written herself on Amazon.
