Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds romance with Bunny, the daughter of Palm Springs harred, stressful police chief. Jim's bumbling roommate, Biff, tries to get Amanda, a tomboyish girl's attention with a so-called love gadget. Meanwhile, Gayle Lewis is a high school senior posing as a wealthy college girl who is pursued by Eric Dean, a wealthy and spoiled college prepie, while Gayle has eyes for a cowboy from Texas, named Stretch. Also Jim and Biff's basketball coach, Campbell, tries to romance Naomi, the owner of the motel where all of the gang is staying at, which is interfered by Naomi's young, trouble-making, brat son who's dubbed, Boom-Boom.
Director:
Norman Taurog
Writer:
Earl Hamner, Jr.
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Troy Donahue as Jim Munroe |
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Connie Stevens as Gayle Lewis - Jane Hoover |
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Ty Hardin as Doug 'Stretch' Fortune |
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Stefanie Powers as Bunny Dixon |
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Robert Conrad as Eric Dean |
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Andrew Duggan as Police Chief Dixon |
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Jack Weston as Coach Fred Campbell |
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Carole Cook as Naomi Yates |
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Jerry Van Dyke as Biff Roberts |
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Zeme North as Amanda North |
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Bill Mumy as Boom Boom Yates |
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Dorothy Green as Cora Dixon |
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Robert Gothie as Gabby |
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Owen Orr as Hap (as Greg Benedict) |
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Gary Kincaid as Fred |
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Mark Dempsey as Mike |
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Jim Shane as Dave |
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Oliver McGowan as Henry Blanchard (uncredited) |
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Tina Cole as Ruth Stewart (uncredited) |
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Dabbs Greer as Boys' Club Leader (uncredited) |
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Bess Flowers as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited) |
| Directing | Norman Taurog | Director |
| Writing | Earl Hamner, Jr. | Screenplay |
| Costume & Make-Up | Fred Williams | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Harold Lipstein | Director of Photography |
| Art | LeRoy Deane | Art Direction |
| Editing | Folmar Blangsted | Editor |
| Sound | Stanley Jones | Sound |
| Art | George James Hopkins | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gordon Bau | Makeup Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jean Burt Reilly | Hair Supervisor |
| Directing | Chuck Hansen | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Stanley Goldsmith | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Frank Perkins | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Michael A. Hoey | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ray Forman | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Norman Pringle | Makeup Artist |
| Crew | Glenn R. Wilder | Stunts |