Surf's Up – Perisphere

What Is Beach Blanket Bingo?

By Olga Tchepikova-Treon February 3, 2024 February 3, 2024 Surf's Up

a white brunette woman sitting next to a white brunette man on a beach with many people in the background behind them

|Courtney Kowalke| Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) is on my list of movies I want to watch before I die. It’s on page two, between Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Avanti (1972). I do not remember why I put Beach Blanket Bingo on my list, but it’s there and has been… Continue reading

Sandra Dee’s Gidget Traipses Through Sexual Politics and a Troubled World

By Olga Tchepikova-Treon February 3, 2024 February 5, 2024 Surf's Up

A blonde, light-skinned young woman is sitting on a bed in a baby-blue painted room. She looks concerned, gazing off camera.

|Penny Folger| Gidget. What springs to mind for people when they hear this name, that is, if in 2024 they still know the reference? The beach? Actors surfing in front of a green screen? Maybe Sally Field? Gidget, from 1959 as directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Sandra Dee… Continue reading

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