TV Guide: Annette Funicello

Listing: The Shaggy Dog

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:45:00 -0500

Thu Nov 19 03:45 PM TCM

Listing: Beach Party

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Sun Nov 15 12:00 AM TCM

Listing: Beach Blanket Bingo

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500

Sun Nov 8 06:00 PM TCM

Video: CA TWISTE A POPONGUINE (Rocking Poponguine)

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

??a Twiste ? Poponguine is perhaps the most charming, fast-paced and accessible film in our Library of African Cinema collection. This bittersweet, coming of age story is a kind of African equivalent of George Lucas' American Graffiti, Spike Lee's Crooklyn or Godard's Masculin/Feminin. These Senegalese teenagers living it up on the beach may also remind less discriminating viewers of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon in Beach Blanket Bingo! Director Moussa Sene Absa's comedy is set during the weeks before Christmas, 1964, in a seaside village, where the local teenagers are divided into rival cultural camps. The "Ins" (or Inseparables) have adopted the names of French pop stars - Johnny Halliday, Sylvie Vartan, "Clo Clo" and Eddie Mitchell. Their clique attends school, has a female auxiliary, exchanges fervent love poetry - but they don't own a record player. The Kings, on the other hand, style themselves after African American Rhythm and Blues legends - Otis Redding, Ray Charles and

Video: CA TWISTE A POPONGUINE (Rocking Poponguine)

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: The Business of Love/Crash Diet Crisis/Iâ€™ll Never Fall in Love Again

CBS — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Guest stars include Michael Callan, Annette Funicello, Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie, Jayne Meadows, Jack Carter, Christopher George, Patti Clifton

Video: Bikini Beach

Starz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: In the third movie of the series, Annette Funicello rocks out; Frankie Avalon plays himself and a British sensation called "The Potato Bug." William Aster.

Video: Beach Party

Hulu — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

An anthropologist studies the wild dating and mating habits of Malibu teenagers. When his research backfires, he goes off with his assistant, a woman closer to his own age.

Video: Muscle Beach Party

Hulu — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Everyone's favorite surfing couple, Frankie and Annette, return for this movie in which the gang finds the beach invaded by the owner of a new gym and his stable of bodybuilders...and a wealthy young contessa who has her sights set on Frankie.

Video: Fireball 500

Hulu — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A stock-car racing driver arrives in a town, hoping to win money at its track. A promoter hires him for an evening cross-country race, which turns out to be a bootlegging run.

Video: How To Stuff A Wild Bikini

Hulu — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

With Frankie away in Tahiti with his navel reserve unit, Dee Dee and the rest of the beach party gang get involved in new adventures.

Video: Troop Beverly Hills

iTunes — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Shelley Long discovers that when the going gets tough, the tough go camping in Troop Beverly Hills, a comedy about lifestyles of the rich and outrageous. Flamboyantly wealthy Phyllis Nefler (Long) has everything money can buy - a drop-dead Beverly Hills mansion, a classic Rolls, furs, jewelry and designer gowns. The one thing she doesn't have is her husband Freddy (Craig T. Nelson), who's leavingher for good. Maybe. Determined to prove she's still the creative, energetic woman Freddy once loved, Phyllis throws luxury to the wind and becomes leader of her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop. But how much can this chic cookie take before she crumbles? Is saving her marriage really worth trading Gucci bags for sleeping bags - not to mention actually touching bugs? Featuring cameos by Robin Leach, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Pia Zadora, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Dr. Joyce Brothers and Cheech Marin. Shelley Long blazes new comic trails in this hilarious trial-by-campfire that leaves the wil

Video: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

iTunes — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The most quirkily offbeat and one of the best of the Beach Party movies starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini finds Frankie off in the navy, serving in the South Pacific. Worried about all of the guys that will be hitting on Dee Dee (Funicello) back at the beach, he convinces a magician (Buster Keaton) to conjure up a siren, Cassandra (Beverly Adam), whom no man can resist. Cassandra succeeds in distracting all attention away from Dee Dee. However, a mentally unbalanced advertising man (Mickey Rooney) decides to make Cassandra s unstoppable sex appeal a national obsession, and she gets noticed by bike gang leader Erik Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck), who vows to make her his. Throw in an unusual disappearing pelican and mayhem (and fun) ensues!

Video: Back to the Beach

iTunes — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

"Veteran beach-movie favorites Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello return to the screen in this hip, hilarious update of their surf-and-sand adventures. Break Dancing may have replaced The Twist in the intervening years, but Frankie and Annette still know how to have a good time as well as teach their own 80s new-wave children a thing or two in the process. A host of familiar faces Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers, Don Adams, Edd Kookie Byrnes, Pee-Wee Herman and more join the fun in the California sun!

Video: Beach Blanket Bingo

Hulu — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Subplots in this classic beach movie of the 1960s includes a group of beach teens become involved in a kidnapping of a singing idol.

Video: Beach Blanket Bingo - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello play Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) with guest appearances by Paul Lynde, Don Rickles and Buster Keaton.

Video: Bikini Beach - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

[Widescreen] The original theatrical trailer for Bikini Beach (1964) starring Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello.

Video: Beach Party - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In the first of the series, Beach Party (1963), anthropologist Bob Cummings studies surfers Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

Video: Jackie Vernon

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Once upon a time there was a place where nobody laughed it certainly wasn t Norm Crosby s Comedy Shop the night Jackie Vernon, Fred Smoot, Jackie Kahane, Annette Funicello, Billy Fellows, Rip Taylor, Jill St. John and Bobby Kosser were here.

Video: Fireball 500

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Melodrama about stock car racing has driver Frankie Avalon getting mixed up with moonshiners when he pauses in a southern town to do some racing. Fabian is the local playboy who provides competition for Avalon on and off the track while Annette Funicello is the love interest.

Video: Fireball 500

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

iTunes — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Vincent Price is a mad doctor who plans on taking over the world by having beautiful female robots seduce rich, powerful men. Frankie Avalon plays a secret agent who tries to stop the plot but ends up in Price's torture chamber. Picture includes bit parts by Annette Funicello and Harvey Lembeck. Title song sung by the Supremes.

Video: Fireball 500

iTunes — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500