Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties

Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties

by Tom Lisanti
Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties

Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties

by Tom Lisanti

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Overview

During the 1960s, a bushel of B-movies were produced and aimed at the predominantly teenage drive-in movie audience. At first teens couldn't get enough of the bikini-clad beauties dancing on the beach or being wooed by Elvis Presley, but by 1966 young audiences became more interested in the mini-skirted, go-go boot wearing, independent-minded gals of spy spoofs, hot rod movies and biker flicks.

Profiled herein are fifty sexy, young actresses that teenage girls envied and teenage boys desired including Quinn O'Hara, Melody Patterson, Hilarie Thompson, Donna Loren, Pat Priest, Meredith MacRae, Arlene Martel, Cynthia Pepper, and Beverly Washburn. Some like Sue Ane Langdon, Juliet Prowse, Marlyn Mason, and Carole Wells, appeared in major studio productions while others, such as Regina Carrol, Susan Hart, Angelique Pettyjohn and Suzie Kaye were relegated to drive-in movies only.

Each biography contains a complete filmography. Some also include the actresses' candid comments and anecdotes about their films, the people they worked with, and their feelings about acting. A list of web sites that provide further information is also included.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786471652
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 08/29/2012
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 360
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 3.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Tom Lisanti is the award-winning author of multiple books about 1960s and 1970s film and television history. He has appeared as a cohost on Turner Classic Movies and has written for Cinema Retro, Films of the Golden Age, Cinema of the '70s, and Scary Monsters.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword Carole Wells xi

Preface 1

The Interviewees

Sue Casey 3

Andrea Dromm 14

Gail Gilmore 21

Laurel Goodwin 33

Sharyn Hillyer 44

Luree Holmes 54

Suzie Kaye 64

Sue Ane Langdon 75

Donna Loren 89

Vitina Marcus 97

Arlene Martel 105

Marlyn Mason 117

Quinn O'Hara 129

Melody Patterson 140

Cynthia Pepper 151

Hilarie Thompson 160

Darlene Tompkins 172

Beverly Washburn 180

Carole Wells 193

Lori Williams 205

More Drive-In Dream Girls

Brenda Benet 217

Diane Bond 221

Cindy Carol 223

Regina Carrol 228

Patti Chandler 232

Nancy Czar 236

Jackie DeShannon 239

Jill Donohue 244

Joan Freeman 246

Susan Hart 252

Anne Helm 258

Mary Hughes 264

Mikki Jamison 266

Candy Johnson 268

Marta Kristen 270

Meredith MacRae 275

Dodie Marshall 281

Claudia Martin 283

Jenny Maxwell 286

Mary Mitchel 289

Laurie Mock 292

Valora Noland 296

Angelique Pettyjohn 299

Pat Priest 303

Juliet Prowse 307

Bobbi Shaw 313

Ulla Stromstedt 316

Wende Wagner 318

Debbie Watson 322

Venita Wolf 326

Web Sites 329

Bibliography 331

Index 339

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