When Beach Party hit screens it was a huge success with the first five-day grosses
reportedly well ahead its competition, which consisted of the popular currently
running major studio films Hud, Tammy and the Doctor, The Nutty Professor
and The Birds. Beach Party was the first of the five American-International
Beach Party movies.

SANDY KOZEL

James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997)

The 1964 film Looking For Love was Johnny Carson’s movie debut. Carson used
to joke that the movie was so bad it was transferred to flammable nitrate film stock.

Connie Francis and Johnny Carson from the film Looking For Love.

Helen Elizabeth Hunt was born in California.

She co-starred with Paul Reiser in the NBC sitcom Mad About You
(1992-1999). She also appeared in the successful films, As Good
As It Gets (1997), Cast Away with Tom Hanks (2000), and Pay it
Forward (2000). She went to several plays each week as a child,
and later practiced ballet and attended UCLA.

1989

Donald Duck’s first appearance was in The Wise Little Hen, a Walt Disney
Silly Symphonies cartoon. The origin of Donald Duck’s name is said to
have been inspired by Australian cricket legend Donald Bradman.