Tag: Sandra Dee

Blu-ray Review: Gidget Film Collection

Chiefly responsible for “launching surfing into mainstream America,” 1959’s Gidget also help jumpstart American International Pictures’ (AIP’s) Beach Party movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Never considered high art, the three Gidget theatrical films and the subsequent TV movie…

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Porttrait in Black (1960)

Blu-ray Review: Portrait in Black

By the late 1950’s, Lana Turner was experiencing a career resurgence. Kicked off by her Oscar nomination for her role in Peyton Place, followed by the media frenzy surrounding her involvement in the 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder, and the 1959…

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