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Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy
of B-Movie Starlets of the
Sixties
During the '60s, a bushel of
B-movies were produced and
aimed squarely at the
teenage drive-in movie
audience.
In the early part of the
decade, teens couldn't get
enough of the bikini-clad
beauties dancing on the
beach or being wooed by
Elvis at raucous clambakes
in Pajama Party, A
Swingin' Summer,
Winter a-Go-Go, Blue
Hawaii, and Kissin'
Cousins.
By 1966, however, young
audiences clamored for more
than what the beach or
Presley films were offering
as mini-skirted, go-go boot
wearing, independent-minded
chicks replaced bubbly beach
girls in movies geared to
young people who were racing
to the nearest drive-in
theater to catch Faster,
Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,
Angels from Hell,
The Cycle Savages,
Maryjane, and Satan's
Sadists.
Finally, the fantasy film
was still a staple at the
drive-in as teenagers craved
to cheer on or ogle the
pretty heroine in the newest
way out spy spoof (Out of
Sight, Come Spy with
Me) or cheesy sci-fi
adventure (Beyond the
Time Barrier, Women
of the Prehistoric Planet).
Drive-in Dream Girls:
A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets
of the Sixties pays
homage to some of the sexy,
young actresses who every
teenage girl envied and
every teenage boy desired.
It offers interviews,
profiles, surprising
anecdotes, film and TV
credits, and a plethora of
photos of 50 groovy drive-in
movie starlets including:
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Above
Right: Susan Hart, star of Ride
the Wild Surf, Pajama Party and
The Ghost in the Invisible
Bikini. Above Left: Lori
Williams as one of the go-go
dancing hellcats out for kicks
in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
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Interviewees:
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Sue Casey: Beach Girls
and the Monster,
Swamp Country,
Catalina Caper
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Jackie DeShannon: Surf
Party, C'mon, Let's Live a
Little
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Andrea Dromm: Come Spy
with Me
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Gail Gilmore: The Girls
on the Beach, Beach
Ball, Girl Happy,
Harum Scarum, Village
of the Giants
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Laurel Goodwin: Girls!
Girls! Girls!
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Sharyn Hillyer: The Spy
in the Green Hat, The
Karate Killers,
Doctor, You've Got to Be
Kidding!
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Luree Holmes: Beach Party,
Pajama Party, Ski
Party, How to Stuff a
Wild Bikini, The
Ghost in the Invisible
Bikini
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Suzie Kaye: Wild Wild
Winter, Women of the
Prehistoric Planet,
Clambake, It's a
Bikini World, The
Angry Breed
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Sue Ane Langdon:
Roustabout, Hold On!,
When the Boys Meet the Girls,
Frankie and Johnny
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Donna Loren: Muscle Beach
Party, Bikini Beach,
Pajama Party, Beach
Blanket Bingo,
Sergeant Deadhead
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Vitina Marcus: The Lost
World
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Arlene Martel: Angels
from Hell
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Marlyn Mason: The Trouble
with Girls, Makin' It
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Quinn O'Hara: A Swingin'
Summer, The Ghost in
the Invisible Bikini, In the
Year 2889, Cry of the
Banshee
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Melody Patterson: The
Cycle Savages, The
Angry Breed, Blood
and Lace
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Cynthia Pepper: Take Her,
She's Mine, Kissin'
Cousins
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Hilarie Thompson:
Maryjane, Getting
Straight, Hex
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Darlene Tompkins: Beyond
the Time Barrier,
Blue Hawaii
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Carole Wells: The Lively
Set, The House of
Seven Corpses
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Beverly Washburn: Spider
Baby, Pit Stop
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Lori Williams: Viva Las
Vegas, Pajama Party,
A Swingin' Summer,
Faster, Pussycat! Kill!,
Kill!, It's a Bikini
World
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Plus:
Brenda Benet, Diane Bond, Cindy
Carol, Regina Carrol, Patti
Chandler, Nancy Czar, Jill Donohue,
Joan Freeman, Susan Hart, Anne Helm,
Mary Hughes, Mikki Jamison, Candy
Johnson, Marta Kristen, Meredith
MacRae, Dodie Marshall, Claudia
Martin, Jenny Maxwell, Mary Mitchel,
Laurie Mock, Valora Noland,
Angelique Pettyjohn, Pat Priest,
Juliet Prowse, Bobbi Shaw, Ulla
Stromstedt, Wende Wagner, Debbie
Watson and Venita Wolf.
Left: Beverly Washburn as one of the
creepy cannibal sisters in the
drive-in movie cult classic, Spider
Baby.
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Sample
some of the Drive-in Dream
Girls, Fantasy Femmes
and Film Fatales'
candid, outspoken comments in
Starlets Talking Trash
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