Drive-In Dream Girls

A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties

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by Tom Lisanti

Type

Stories

Subject

Genre > B-movies

Keywords

B-movies, actresses, 1960s

Publishing date

2012

Publisher

McFarland & Co

1st publishing

2003

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 350 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches (16 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-7165-2

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Tom Lisanti is the author of McFarland’s Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies (2005), Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962–1973 (2002, coauthored with Louis Paul) and Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema: Interviews with 20 Actresses from Biker, Beach, and Elvis Movies (2001). He has also written for such magazines as In Theatre, Filmfax, Femme Fatales and Films of the Golden Age. He lives in New York.

Press Reviews:
"Fascinating stories and tidbits...worth reading" -- Classic Images

"Well researched and loaded with pictures...fine tribute" -- Shock Cinema

"Wildly entertaining...well-researched and informative" -- Paper

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