Biography: Harvey Lembeck |
Brooklyn-born Harvey Lembeck was a nightclub and Broadway comedian at the time of his 1951 film bow in You're in the Navy Now. The roly-poly, nasal-voiced Lembeck was most often cast as the wise-guy comedy relief in war films, most notably Stalag 17... more
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Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 92min
In this musical aimed at teenagers, Frankie Avalon, and Fabian battle it out for Annette Funicello's affections on the stock car track. The tale begins when smugglers trick Avalon into taking on contraband during a cross-country race. He catches on to...
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
Cast: Mickey Rooney
Tags: Beach Film Comedy Teen Movie
Length: 90min
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is considered to be the strangest of the "Beach Party" movies. Frankie (Frankie Avalon) is off in the navy, serving in the South Pacific, and nervous about all of the guys that will be hitting on Dee Dee (Annette Funicello)...
Cast: Boris Karloff Keenan Wynn Samuel Z. Arkoff William Asher
Tags: Beach Film Rock Musical Musical Comedy Teen Movie Musical Comedy
Length: 100min
The Beach Party gang is back in this third episode. This time out, the gang is visited by the handsome British pop star Potato Bug (Frankie Avalon in a dual role) who has come to CA for a little r&r. When Potato Bug sees the perky Dee Dee (Annette...
Cast: Buster Keaton Paul Lynde
Tags: Musical Comedy Teen Movie Comedy Musical Beach Film
Length: 96min
Part of American-International's "Beach Party" series, Beach Blanket Bingo was directed by William Asher. Frankie (Frankie Avalon) briefly deserts Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) in favor of pop star Sugar Kane (Linda Evans). Also around and about is a...
Cast: Jesse White Dorothy Lamour
Tags: Romantic Comedy Science Fiction Teen Movie Comedy Sci-Fi Comedy
Length: 82min
Out of the beaches and into the boudoirs go Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and the rest of the gang in Pajama Party. Actually, the whole megillah is as innocent as a newborn babe, but there's plenty of smirking and snickering during a wild 'n'...
Cast: Guy Madison Dimitri Tiomkin
Length: 88min
The Command was Warner Bros.' first Technicolor release. Guy Madison, then extremely popular with western fans by virtue of the TVer Wild Bill Hickok, heads the cast as Army medical captain McClaw. When a cavalry commander is killed, McClaw, the...
Cast: Robert Cummings
Tags: Beach Film Musical Comedy Musical Comedy
Length: 101min
Professor Bob Cummings is an anthropologist who uses a telescope to study the mating habits of teenagers, namely Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. However, Cummings' secretary Dorothy Malone wishes that his boss would get his mind off bikinis and...
Cast: Henry Mancini
Tags: Comedy Action Military Comedy Spy Film
Length: 87min
Back at the Front is the second of two film comedies based on the wartime cartoons of Bill Mauldin. As in Up Front, the principal characters are woebegone GIs Willie and Joe: Tom Ewell is back as Willie, but Harvey Lembeck replaces David Wayne as Joe....
Cast: William Holden Billy Wilder Otto Preminger Don Taylor
Tags: Ensemble Film Comedy Drama War Drama War POW Drama
Length: 120min
The scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is overseen by sadistic commandant Oberst Von Schernbach (Otto Preminger) and the deceptively avuncular sergeant Schultz (Sig...
Tags: Drama Juvenile Delinquency Film
Length: 83min
Juvenile delinquency is the subject of the misleadingly titled Universal-International potboiler Girls in the Night. Patricia Hardy plays Hannah Haynes, the sister of good-boy-gone-bad Chuck Haynes (Harvey Lembeck). When Chuck ends up facing a murder...
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