Wednesday, April 28, 2010

"Bye Bye Birdie" by Ann-Margret



Perennial sex-kitten Ann-Margret - who today turns 69 - was a smash in the 1963 film Bye Bye Birdie, which is about a teen idol who's drafted to serve in Vietnam; inspiration for the stage musical (which had itself inspired the movie) was the March 1958 induction of Elvis Presley, an act which had teenage girls around the world in a conniption for months.
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