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Director: Will Price
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From Time Out Film Guide
Pioneering DJ/impresario Alan Freed (later harassed by payola probes and mythologised by American Hot Wax) chaperones a customarily incongruous bunch of early rockers through this prototype rocksploitation quickie, in which 13-year-old Tuesday Weld (playing 18, and lyrically dubbed by Connie Francis) pines for a strapless dress for the school prom, until perked up by such authentic novelties as Lymon's kitsch classic 'I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent'. Wonderfully grotesque.Author: PT
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- Richard Astley-Clemas said...
- Posted on Jul 11 2008 11:43 Cirino & the Bowties with Ivy Schulman is a great piece of Hot Boppin' Girl music.Years ahead of its time-it wouldnot be till 1959 that Leiber/Stoller werr experimenting with celllos for a Drifters session yet this song starts off with a celllo
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Cast & crew
Director: Will Price
Producer: Max J Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
Cast: Tuesday Weld, Jacqueline Kerr, Ivy Schulman, Alan Freed, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, LaVern Baker, Cirino and the Bowties full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 83 mins
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