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Where the Boys Are

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Where the Boys Are (1960) is a Metrocolor and CinemaScope American coming-of-age comedy film, written by George Wells based on the novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout, about four Midwestern college co-eds who spend spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [1]

67 relations: A Ticklish Affair, AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, Alfredo Sadel, All the Fine Young Cannibals, American Film Institute, Angst, Bachelor in Paradise (film), Barbara Nichols, Beach Party, Brown University, Camille Paglia, Carmen Phillips, Chico Hamilton, Chill Wills, Cinema of the United States, CinemaScope, Come Fly with Me (film), Comedy film, Coming of age, Connie Francis, Date rape, Dave Brubeck, Denny Miller, Dolores Hart, Fidel Castro, Follow the Boys (1963 film), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frank Gorshin, Fredric Steinkamp, George Hamilton (actor), George Wells (screenwriter), Gerry Mulligan, Glendon Swarthout, Henry Levin (film director), Howard Greenfield, Jim Hutton, Joe Cronin, Joe Pasternak, Luana Patten, Maggie Pierce, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metrocolor, MGM Records, Michigan State University, Midwestern United States, Nancy Walters, Natalie Wood, Neil Sedaka, Palm Springs Weekend, Paula Prentiss, ..., Pete Rugolo, Reynold Brown, Russ Tamblyn, Sean Flynn (photojournalist), Second-wave feminism, Spring break, The Honeymoon Machine, The Horizontal Lieutenant, TriStar Pictures, Victor Young, West Coast jazz, Where the Boys Are '84, Where the Boys Are (Connie Francis song), William Smith (actor), Yale University, Yvette Mimieux, 1984 in film. Expand index (17 more) »

A Ticklish Affair

A Ticklish Affair (Moon Walk) is a 1963 film directed by George Sidney.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century.

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Alfredo Sadel

Alfredo Sadel (February 22, 1930 – June 28, 1989) was a popular Venezuelan singer and actor.

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All the Fine Young Cannibals

All the Fine Young Cannibals is a 1960 American film directed by Michael Anderson, based on the novel by Rosamond Marshall starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, and Pearl Bailey.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Angst

Angst means fear or anxiety (anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and anxious, anxiety are of similar origin).

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Bachelor in Paradise (film)

Bachelor in Paradise is a 1961 American Metrocolor romantic comedy film starring Bob Hope and Lana Turner.

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Barbara Nichols

Barbara Marie Nickerauer (December 10, 1928 – October 5, 1976), better known as Barbara Nichols, was an American actress who often played brassy or comic roles in films in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Beach Party

Beach Party is a 1963 American film which was the first of seven beach party films from American International Pictures (AIP) aimed at a teen audience.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

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Camille Paglia

Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947) is an American academic and social critic.

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Carmen Phillips

Carmen Phillips (January or June 9, 1895 – December 9, 1936) was an American actress of the silent era.

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Chico Hamilton

Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton, (September 20, 1921 – November 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Chill Wills

Theodore Childress "Chill" Wills (July 18, 1902 – December 15, 1978) was an American actor and a singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, often metonymously referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on the film industry in general since the early 20th century.

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CinemaScope

CinemaScope is an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953 to 1967, for shooting widescreen movies.

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Come Fly with Me (film)

Come Fly with Me is a 1963 British comedy film about three beautiful international air hostesses looking for romance and excitement.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Coming of age

Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult.

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Connie Francis

Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, December 12, 1937) is an American pop singer and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Date rape

Date rape is a form of acquaintance rape.

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.

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Denny Miller

Denny Scott Miller (born Dennis Linn Miller; April 25, 1934 – September 9, 2014) was an American actor, perhaps best known for his regular role as Duke Shannon on Wagon Train, his guest-starring appearances on Gilligan's Island, and his 1959 film role as Tarzan.

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Dolores Hart

Dolores Hart, O.S.B., (born October 20, 1938) is an American Roman Catholic Benedictine nun who had previously been a prominent actress.

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Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.

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Follow the Boys (1963 film)

Follow the Boys (1963) is a comedy film starring Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, and Janis Paige, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale (frequently abbreviated as Ft. Lauderdale) is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami.

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Frank Gorshin

Frank John Gorshin Jr. (April 5, 1933 – May 17, 2005) was an American character actor, impressionist, and comedian.

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Fredric Steinkamp

Fredric Steinkamp (August 22, 1928 – February 20, 2002) was an American film editor with more than 40 film credits.

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George Hamilton (actor)

George Stevens Hamilton (born August 12, 1939) is an American film and television actor.

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George Wells (screenwriter)

George Wells (November 8, 1909 – November 27, 2000) was an American screenwriter and producer, best known for making light comedies and musicals for MGM.

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Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.

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Glendon Swarthout

Glendon Fred Swarthout (April 8, 1918, near Pinckney, Michigan – September 23, 1992, Scottsdale, Arizona) was an American writer and novelist.

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Henry Levin (film director)

Henry Levin (5 June 1909 – 1 May 1980) began as a stage actor and director but was most notable as an American film director of over fifty feature films.

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Howard Greenfield

Howard Greenfield (March 15, 1936 – March 4, 1986) was an American lyricist and songwriter, who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building.

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Jim Hutton

Dana James Hutton (May 31, 1934 – June 2, 1979) was an American actor in film and television best remembered for his role as Ellery Queen in the 1970s TV series of the same name and his screen partnership with Paula Prentiss in five films, starting with Where the Boys Are.

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Joe Cronin

Joseph Edward Cronin (October 12, 1906 – September 7, 1984) was a Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop, manager and general manager.

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Joe Pasternak

Joseph Herman "Joe" Pasternak (September 19, 1901 – September 13, 1991) was an Hungarian-born American film producer in Hollywood.

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Luana Patten

Luana Patten (July 6, 1938 – May 1, 1996) was an American film actress.

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Maggie Pierce

Margaret "Maggie" Pierce, M.D. is a fictional character from the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, which airs on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Metrocolor

Metrocolor is the trade name used by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for films processed at their laboratory.

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MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films.

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Michigan State University

Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").

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Nancy Walters

Nancy Walters (June 26, 1933 – September 29, 2009) was an American model, actress and minister.

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Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress.

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Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939) is an American pop singer, pianist, composer and record producer.

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Palm Springs Weekend

Palm Springs Weekend is a 1963 Warner Bros. bedroom comedy film directed by Norman Taurog.

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Paula Prentiss

Paula Prentiss (born Paula Ragusa; March 4, 1938) is an American actress best known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are, Man's Favorite Sport?, The Stepford Wives, What's New Pussycat?, In Harm's Way, The Black Marble, and The Parallax View,, Yahoo! and the cult television series He & She.

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Pete Rugolo

Pietro "Pete" Rugolo (December 25, 1915 – October 16, 2011) was an American jazz composer, arranger and record producer.

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Reynold Brown

William Reynold Brown (October 18, 1917 – August 24, 1991) was an American realist artist who painted many Hollywood film posters.

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Russ Tamblyn

Russell Irving Tamblyn (born December 30, 1934) is an American film and television actor and dancer.

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Sean Flynn (photojournalist)

Sean Leslie Flynn (May 31, 1941 – June 1971; declared legally dead in 1984) was an American actor and freelance photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War.

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Second-wave feminism

Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity and thought that began in the United States in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades.

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Spring break

Spring break is a vacation period in early Spring at universities and schools which started during the 1930s in the United States and is observed in some other mainly Western countries.

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The Honeymoon Machine

The Honeymoon Machine is a 1961 film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Mullaney, and Dean Jagger, based on the 1959 Broadway play The Golden Fleecing by Lorenzo Semple Jr..

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The Horizontal Lieutenant

The Horizontal Lieutenant is a 1962 American romantic comedy war film, based on the 1961 novel The Bottletop Affair by Gordon Cotler who was a Japanese interpreter for US Army Intelligence during World War II.

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TriStar Pictures

TriStar Pictures, Inc. (spelled as Tri-Star until 1991 and stylized as TRISTAR) is an American film studio that is a division of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, part of Sony Pictures whose owned by Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Victor Young

Victor Young (August 8, 1900 – November 10, 1956)"Victor Young, Composer, Dies of Heart Attack", Oakland Tribune, November 12, 1956.

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West Coast jazz

West Coast jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s.

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Where the Boys Are '84

Where the Boys Are '84 (onscreen title: Where the Boys Are) is a 1984 American sex comedy film and a remake of the 1960 film Where the Boys Are, starring Lisa Hartman, Lorna Luft, Wendy Schaal and Lynn-Holly Johnson.

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Where the Boys Are (Connie Francis song)

Where the Boys Are is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield for, and first recorded by, Connie Francis as the title track of the 1960 movie by the same name in which she was co-starring.

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William Smith (actor)

William Smith (born March 24, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in almost three hundred feature films and television productions.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yvette Mimieux

Yvette Mimieux (born January 8, 1942) is a retired American movie and television actress.

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1984 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Boys_Are

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