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Annette Funicello & Frankie Avalon Beach Blanket Bingo

Hollywood, California
1965 AP6510

Costume
   Annette: yellow bra and panty deux pices. Red maillot, other.
   Frankie: briefs.
   Deborah Walley: plaid halter and panties.

   Annette: TML.
   Frankie: TMLC.
   Deborah: TML.

Actions
   Actresses Deborah Walley plays counter to the poofed hair of our star. Poster (1). VHS box cover (2). A publicity shots of Annette Funicello (3) and her (right) with a friend carrying a surfboard (4). Everybody wiggles, left to right: Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, 22 year old Deborah Walley, and John Ashley (5)..

Commentary
   Compare to Bikini Beach (AP6420).Annette Funicello is born in Utica, New York, on October 22, 1942. In the later 1940s her family moved to southern California where she eventually was hired by Walt Disney for The Mickey Mouse Club in 1955. Her career with Disney lasted until the beach party films of the 1960s.

Source
   Beach Blanket Bingo is the fifth of the American International Pictures beach party movies. Also stars Deborah Walley, Donna Loren, Bobbi Shaw, Linda Evans, Buster Keaton. Collected from the Internet, including briansdriveintheater.com, and other sources 5 pictures.
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