Ed Garner, a local Southern California surfer who found a home alongside the likes of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon in several of the popular beach party movies of the 1960s, has died. He was ...

Annette Funicello was the most popular member of the original 1950's "Mickey Mouse Club" television series. She's also remembered for starring in 1960s beach party movies. Funicello died yesterday at ...

Greek mythology holds that Calliope, the goddess of eloquence and epic poetry, is considered the chief of the Muses. She was the one to whom writers — such as me — would hopefully invoke for ...

LOS ANGELES — Connie Francis, the actress whose 1960 teens-gone-wild Spring Break beach film “Where the Boys Are” helped make Fort Lauderdale famous, has died at age 87. Her death was announced ...

Grace Phipps wasn’t born yet — not even close — when Frankie Avalon and Annettte Funicello were kicking up sand in the 1960s “Beach Party” movies. She’s only 23. But the actress, born in Austin and ...

Sachse‘s niece Catherine Schreiber told The Hollywood Reporter that the actress, best known for her appearances in films such as 1968's Wild in the Streets and 1967's The Trip passed away due to 'an ...