Before Jaws made us afraid of the water, Hollywood made it the hottest place on Earth — filled with tans, tunes, and ...

Salli Sachse, who appeared in lots of beach party movies and in the counterculture cult classics The Trip and Wild in the Streets as a contract player for American International Pictures in the 1960s, ...

American International Pictures produced a series of seven beach films, starting with Beach Party. The 1965 AIP film Ski Party (with Dwayne Hickman, Yvonne Craig, Lesley Gore and James Brown) is also ...

He appeared in eight films with Annette Funicello, including 'Bikini Beach,' 'Pajama Party,' 'Beach Blanket Bingo' and 'How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Ed Garner, a local ...

The original Muscle Beach, walking distance from AFM, was once immortalized in the 1964 film, 'Muscle Beach Party' — starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Buddy Hackett and Don Rickles — which ...

Redlands’ A.K. Smiley Public Library will continue its Southern California in Film series with a screening of the unrated 1965 film “Beach Blanket Bingo” at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the ...

Ed Garner, a local Southern California surfer who found a home alongside the likes of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon in several of the popular beach party movies of the 1960s, has died. He was ...