By Tom Lisanti

A party of the glorious femmes who featured in video clips of the interval. It addresses their movie and tv careers, concentrating on their view of the genres, and their reviews in regards to the movies and the folks they labored with.

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About the Author
Tom Lisanti is the writer of Hollywood Surf and seashore videos (2005), Drive-in Dream women (2003) and picture Fatales: girls in Espionage motion pictures and tv, 1962–1973 (2002, coauthored with Louis Paul). He has additionally written for such magazines as In Theatre, Filmfax, Femme Fatales and movies of the Golden Age. He lives in long island.

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That film was a big disappointment. " Filmed on location in Hawaii, I Sailed to Tahiti with an All-Girl Crew featured beautiful women and breathtaking scenery. "Two things stand out for me about this film," remembers McBain. "The first being that the water in this lagoon was a beautiful bluish green and was like a sheet of glass. It was spectacular. The second thing was that in one of the scenes, the boat gets stuck and Edy Williams and the rest of the girls have to jump in the water and push the back of the boat.

I played my first movie bad girl in this film and it typed me almost forever. Troy Donahue was a star at that time and that's what they wanted. Troy and I got along very well. He's a good guy. Perhaps Connie Stevens and I should have been rivals but we were friendly. We had known each other from when I was working at the Glenville Center Theatre when I was doing a play. She was dating one of the actors I was working with. She was pretty feisty and let the studio know when she was unhappy about things.

It kept happening over and over. He began getting uptight and breaking out into a sweat. I started feeling really sorry for him because it was embarrassing. So finally Norman Taurog [the director] said, 'Let's just wrap it up for today. ' And that's what we did. " Though Joan was a professional singer, to her chagrin, she did not get to sing with Elvis in It Happened at the World's Fair. ) would get the opportunity. "If I would have been using my noodle at the time, I would have had my agents push that for me and probably something would have come of it," says Joan matter-of-factly.

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