Bye Bye Birdie (1963) |
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Bye Bye Birdie Cast |
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Dick Van Dyke
(as Albert F. Peterson)
with Janet Leigh
(as Rosie DeLeon)
Ann-Margret
(as Kim McAfee)
with Bobby Rydell
(as Hugo Peabody)
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Other InformationAwardsTop Comedy Laurel Awards [1964] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Top Musical Laurel Awards [1964] (Won/Nominated: 2nd place) Top Female Comedy Performance Laurel Awards [1964] (Won/Nominated: 2nd place) Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy Golden Globes [1964] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy Golden Globes [1964] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment Academy Awards [1964] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryGeorge Sidney`s adaptation of the satiric Broadway musical smash by Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse, and Lee Adams — about an Elvis Presley-inspired rock star, who is drafted into the army and who creates a near-riot in a small Midwestern town when ... DiscographySinglesThe Shriner`s Ballet Rosie A Lot of Living to Do One Last Kiss Hymn for a Sunday Evening Honestly Sincere One Boy How Lovely To Be a Woman Bye Bye Birdie Kids Put On a Happy Face The Telephone Song |
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Bye Bye Birdie (1963) was nominated for the following awards:
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes [after Kim has dyed her hair]
Harry McAfee: You dare defy your mother?
Kim McAfee: Well, it`s my hair.
Harry McAfee: Not till you`re 21!
Ballet manager: This ballet has historic significance. It was performed the same day as the funeral of the Tzar. Lenin himself made the arrangement.
Albert Peterson: Lenin arranged music?
Ballet manager: No, funerals.
Ballet manager: Who sent you here, Senator Goldwater?
Ballet manager: Save your life? Me? My friend, if you are sick, see a doctor.
Albert Peterson: "If you are sick, see a doctor." You speak English?
Ballet manager: Saves time.
Mae Peterson: Now, don`t try to pay me back, son. I forgive you. So what if you`re an ingrate? So long as you`re happy.
Albert Peterson: I don`t wanna be happy!
Borov: And for you, I will not go too fast.
Rose DeLeon: We shall see!
Doris McAfee: You know these adolescents! Kim`ll lose face!
Harry McAfee: And if I don`t get him out that`s not all she`ll...
Kim McAfee: Harry, do you have a cigarette? I`ve run out.
Harry McAfee: So have I, how `bout my pipe?
Randolph MacAfee: I respect ya, Papa!
Harry McAfee: I don`t want your respect! Who wants respect from a ten-year-old kid?
Rose DeLeon: Well we could sure use the money. Any day now we`ll have another mouth to feed.
Ed Sullivan: Rosie, you`re not even married.
Rose DeLeon: His mother!
Harry McAfee: I know that showbiz type! I never told you this, but one summer I worked with the circus... all those midgets... WILD! They`re probably livin` in sin.
Doris McAfee: Harry Lionel McAfee!
Harry McAfee: They`ve been engaged for six years. Don`t tell me they haven`t...
Doris McAfee: We were engaged for five years.
Harry McAfee: He`s not as stupid as I was.
Harry McAfee: Nice? Heh HEH! I know that show business crowd - probably living in sin.
Harry McAfee: No matter how many millions I make selling Speed-Up, I`ll still be the same humble, lovable guy I always was. And if any of those hicks try to push me around, I`ll break `em.
Doris McAfee: Randolph, your father`s warned you. If you make another bomb, you`ll get spanked.
Harry McAfee: The next time I have a daughter, I hope it`s a boy!Trivia Conrad Birdie was a parody of Elvis Presley and the play was based upon the furor that arose from Presley being drafted in 1958. The character`s name, however, was the result of composers Strouse and Adams finding the name of real-life singer Conway Twitty far more humorous and safer to parody than Elvis. Bye Bye Birdie opened at the Martin Beck Theater on April 14, 1960 and ran for 607 performances. Melody Patterson`s film debut. Kim Darby`s film debut. Despite portraying the mother of Dick Van Dyke`s character in the film, Maureen Stapleton is just six months older than Van Dyke. The motorcycles used in the film are Nortons supplied by Bo Derek`s father. The sequence of events in the 1963 version and the stage/1995 version are completely different. Songs are added or removed. The characters singing the songs are changed... the 1995 Jason Alexander vehicle is much more true to the original play. In the movie, Dick Van Dyke`s character wants to be a chemist. In the stage play he wants to be a simple English teacher, and Rosie has a song to that effect. None of the Russian Ballet shows up in either the stage version or the 1995 movie remake. Hanna-Barbera cartoon merchandise is prominently displayed throughout the film: 1) - In "The Telephone Hour" musical number, the character "Alice" has a Yogi Bear record prominently displayed among her records. 2) - In Kim`s bedroom, she has dolls of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble on top of her radio, on a chair is a plush toy of Huckleberry Hound, and on yet another chair is a plush toy of Yogi Bear. 3) - Randolph is wearing Huckleberry Hound pajamas during the "Kids" musical number. Albert`s music company is called "ALMAELOU." This is an amalgam of his name, his mother`s name, and his late father`s name. The song that made Dick Van Dyke`s career, "Put on a Happy Face", was unsuccessful in early showings of the musical and almost cut from the production.
The sheet music of Birdie`s next hit song, "Mumbo Jumbo Gooey Gumbo," which Albert picks up from the piano in his first scene, is the same music as the title tune, "Bye Bye Birdie."
Director George Sidney was so taken with the talent of Ann-Margret that when the film was edited he went to Columbia`s executives and proposed the opening and closing bumpers that would showcase her. They refused to pay for any additional filming so Sidney rented the studio and crew at his own expense. He then asked the composers to come up with a title song. Ann-Margret`s skirt-flipping/hair-tossing rendition of the song was filmed six months after principal photography was completed at a cost of $60,000, which was repaid to Sidney after the movie, and Ann-Margret, became a sensation. The title tune which opens and closes the film was written for the screen version, and was not from the Tony-winning Broadway musical. Dick Van Dyke`s first feature film. Dick Van Dyke and Paul Lynde, both veterans of the 1960 Broadway hit, were displeased with the film version. Van Dyke especially felt it had become too much of a vehicle for Ann-Margret. | ||
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