When 10,000 Kids meet on 5,000 Beach Blankets! (October, 1963)
In Memoriam:
William Asher
(1921-2012)
Other Points of Interest:
A tribute to Asher’s Beach Party series at the Brewery.
More of Asher’s cinematic contributions here at the Morgue.
Beach Party (1963) Alta Vista Productions :: American International Pictures / EP: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff / P: Lou Rusoff / AP: Robert Dillon / D: William Asher / W: Lou Rusoff / C: Kay Norton / E: Homer Powell / M: Les Baxter / S: Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Morey Amsterdam, Harvey Lembeck, Eva Six, John Ashley, Jody McCrea, Dick Dale and the Del Tones
July 22, 2012 at 5:32 am
Oh no, I hadn’t heard about William Asher! This is probably a bad time to say I thought he had passed away about 3 years ago, isn’t it? Wonder who I have him confused with.
I’m a sucker for those tiny line drawings of frolickers on the ads. They’re deceptively simple and completely charming.
July 22, 2012 at 1:32 pm
He’d been suffering from Alzheimer’s for awhile now. His passing was kinda over-shadowed by the sad glut of losses we’ve had over the past couple of weeks — Griffith, Borgnine, Holme and Zanuck.