FLOWER DRUM SONG
Along with South Pacific, Flower Drum Song is one of my favorite Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals. Recently released on DVD, it stars the lovely Nancy Kwan. Check out this clip on YouTube of Nancy lip-synching and dancing to “I Enjoy Being a Girl.”
BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING
One of my favorite movies of all time is Otto Preminger’s slick mystery thriller Bunny Lake Is Missing. Besides starring one of my fave actresses of all time, Carol Lynley giving perhaps her finest performance, the film features a haunting music score by Paul Glass and a brilliant title design by the genius, Saul Bass. Check out the opening on YouTube.
DVR ALERT!
2/4: Explorers discover cavegirl Vitina Marcus in The Lost World (Fom Movie Channel, 2:02pm)
2/4: Frankie, Annette, Deborah Walley, Marta Kristen, Donna Loren, Bobbi Shaw, Mary Hughes, and the rest of the surf crowd play Beach Blanket Bingo (TCM, 2:15pm)
2/8: Carol Lynley, Tuesday Weld, and Luciana Paluzzi Return to Peyton Place (Fox, 11:30am)
2/8: Nancy Kovack discovers the Diary of a Madman (TCM, 6:00pm)
Happy Birthday!
To one of our favorite Star Trek gals, BarBara Luna! Luna, as she is known to her friends, was one of the most prolific hardworking starlets of the Sixties and Seventies. She is a fan favorite at autograph conventions across the nation. Check out her web site.
And to Drive-in Dream Girl Hilarie Thompson (pictured). She excelled playing the baby-faced wanna-be hippie chick during the late Sixties/early Seventies in such films as Maryjane, How Sweet It Is!, The Model Shop, It It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, and Getting Straight. She did lots of TV too and starred in the short-lived ABC trying-to-be-hip series The Young Rebels in 1970 about hippie types fighting the British during the Revolutionary War.