• On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and...
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  • has been adapted twice as a film (in 1959 and 2000) and once as a BBC radio broadcast in 2008. The phrase "on the beach" is a Royal Navy term that indicates...
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  • On the Beach is a 2000 apocalyptic drama television film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Armand Assante, Bryan Brown, and Rachel Ward. In America...
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  • On the Beach may refer to: On the Beach (novel), a 1957 novel by Nevil Shute On the Beach (1959 film), an American adaptation of Shute's novel, by Stanley...
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    Sunny Beach (Bulgarian: Слънчев бряг [ˈsɫɤnt͡ʃɛf brʲak], Slanchev bryag) is a seaside resort on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, 35 km (22 mi) north of...
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  • Gidget is a 1959 American CinemaScope comedy film directed by directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren, Arthur...
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  • The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards. The top ten 1959 released films by box office...
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    (1989) On the Beach (1959) – film depicting a gradually dying, post-apocalyptic world in Australia that remained after a nuclear Third World War On the Beach...
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    Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character...
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    The beach party film is an American film genre of feature films which were produced and released between 1963 and 1968, created by American International...
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  • The Shaggy Dog is a 1959 American fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and loosely based on the 1923 novel The Hound of Florence by...
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  • A Summer Place is a 1959 American romantic drama film based on Sloan Wilson's 1958 novel of the same name, about teenage lovers from different classes...
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    The Fontainebleau Miami Beach, also known as the Fontainebleau Hotel, is a hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. Designed by Morris Lapidus, the luxury hotel...
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    Imitation of Life (1959) is an American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal International. It was Sirk's...
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    Frankie Avalon (category American male film actors)
    in 1959. He is the earliest surviving singer to have scored a solo number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Avalon started appearing in films in the 1960s;...
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    Annette Funicello (category American film actresses)
    During the mid-1960s, she established herself as a film actress, popularizing the successful "Beach Party" genre alongside co-star Frankie Avalon. In 1992...
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  • Don't Make Waves (category Beach party films)
    Alexander Mackendrick and is based on the 1959 novel Muscle Beach by Ira Wallach, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film depicts a series of romantic triangles...
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    Matt Lattanzi (category 1959 births)
    for his acting in films such as My Tutor and the soap opera Paradise Beach. Lattanzi was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, the son of Jeanette (née...
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    The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic historical war drama film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name about the D-Day landings...
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    Jody McCrea (category American male film actors)
    in the American International Pictures beach movies who could surf. The film was a big hit, and after appearing in Law of the Lawless (1964) and The Greatest...
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    Edd Byrnes (category American male film actors)
    episode "Ring of Sand." He was in another war film titled Up Periscope (1959). Byrnes was cast in Girl on the Run, a pilot for a detective show starring...
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  • Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (category Beach party films)
    Hollow is a 1959 AIP horror comedy film. It was a sequel to their film Hot Rod Gang. American International Pictures released the film in July 1959 as a double...
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    Universe 1959 was the eighth Miss Universe pageant, held at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, California, United States on 24 July 1959. This...
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    film starring James Darren, Michael Callan and Deborah Walley. Released by Columbia Pictures, the film is a sequel to the 1959 Sandra Dee beach film vehicle...
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  • Luana Patten (category Actresses from Long Beach, California)
    except for a brief cameo in the 1988 film Grotesque. Patten died in 1996 from respiratory failure at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, aged 57. She is interred...
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  • original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, California. The soundtrack consists of songs sung by Earl Robinson. Muscle Beach and The Savage Eye (1959) were restored...
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  • Beach Blanket Bingo is a 1965 American beach party film directed by William Asher. It is the fifth film in the Beach Party film series. The film stars...
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    popular, and the Daytona Beach and Road Course hosted races for over 50 years, replaced in 1959 by Daytona International Speedway. The city is the headquarters...
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  • Moonstone (1934 film), by Reginald Barker The Moonstone (1996 film), a TV film The Moonstone (1959 TV series), a British miniseries The Moonstone (1972...
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  • Beach Party is a 1963 American film and the first of seven beach party films from American International Pictures (AIP) aimed at a teen audience. This...
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