Cliff Richard's 'Living Doll' featured in which 1959 film?
"the American group the Drifters as ""Living Doll"" entered the American top 40, licensed by ABC-Paramount. ""Living Doll"" was used in Richard's début film ""Serious Charge"", but it was arranged as a country standard, rather than a rock and roll standard. The Shadows were not a typical backing group. They became contractually separate from Richard, and the group received no royalties for records backing Richard. In 1959, the Shadows (then still the Drifters) landed an EMI recording contract of their own, for independent recordings. That year, they released three singles, two of which featured double-sided vocals and one of which"
"Richard could not make the show and that well-known BBC presenter John Craven would be taking his place. They then introduced Craven, but it was Richard who appeared. There are many references to Cliff Richard in ""The Young Ones"", preluding their collaboration, including: Performers: Musicians: Weekly charts Year-end charts Living Doll (song) ""Living Doll"" is a song written by Lionel Bart made popular by Cliff Richard and the Shadows (then still 'the Drifters') in 1959. It was the top selling single in the UK in 1959. It has topped the UK charts twice: in its original version in 1959 (their"
"formation of the charity Comic Relief provided an unusual song from Cliff Richard, a singer with several huge hits in the 1950s and '60s. He teamed up with the cast of the popular sitcom The Young Ones (itself named after a Richard song) for a new version of his 1959 single ""Living Doll"", half sung by Richard and half shouted by the Young Ones cast. With proceeds going to the charity, it reached number one for three weeks and was Richard's first number 1 of the decade. Another novelty number one was ""The Chicken Song"", sung by the cast of"
"includes a role by Cliff Richard, then a teenage pop idol, as Larry Thompson's younger brother, Curley. Richard sings three songs, although none is heard in its entirety: ""No Turning Back"", ""Mad About You"", and ""Living Doll"" – the last is a different version from that which became a No. 1 hit in the British charts. A fellow delinquent character was played by another 1950s rock and roll star, the uncredited Jess Conrad in an early acting performance. There are fleeting images of female nudity in the scenes of the young people in the lido, very unusual for British films"
"1959 had released his only US hit (as of 1961) ""Living Doll"" (#30) - ""When the Girl in Your Arms..."" was not given a US release concurrent with its UK charting, as ABC-Parmamount felt it prudent to await the American opening of the track's parent movie ""The Young Ones"". Connie Francis heard Richard's hit while visiting the UK and in an unusual move Francis - whose singles were typically remakes of traditional pop standards or original material - covered Richard's UK hit in a 2 November 1961 session in New York City produced by Arnold Maxin with Don Costa as"
"Rag Doll (film) Rag Doll, released in the US as Young, Willing and Eager, is a 1961 British B-movie crime film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring actor and singer Jess Conrad. The film gained a new audience in the 2000s in response to Conrad's elevation to cult status as a purveyor of late-1950s and early-1960s pre-Beatles British kitsch, and received a Region 2 DVD release in 2009 in a double bill with Comfort's 1962 film ""The Painted Smile"". Seventeen-year-old Carol (Christina Gregg) flees her small-town home to escape from her alcoholic stepfather, and heads off to London to live"
"one singles on the UK Singles Chart, including the unique distinction of having two versions of the same song hitting number-one on the singles chart. ""Living Doll"" first topped the charts in 1959, then again 26 years later in a re-recording for the Comic Relief charity with the cast of ""The Young Ones (TV series)"". Richard also has the distinction of being the only artist to have achieved UK number-one singles in five consecutive decades, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Richard has also achieved 7 number one albums on the UK Albums Chart in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and"
"China Doll (film) China Doll (a.k.a. ""Time Is a Memory"") is a 1958 romantic drama film set in the China Burma India Theater of World War II and starring Victor Mature and Li Li-Hua. It represented a return to films for director Frank Borzage who had taken a 10-year hiatus before tackling this poignant, yet ""offbeat"" film. In 1943, Captain Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) is a cargo aircraft pilot supplying the Allied troops fighting the Japanese in China. When he is not flying or training his new crew hard, he is usually drinking in the local bar. One night, while"
"the audience or camera. His late 1958 and early 1959 follow-up singles, ""High Class Baby"" and ""Livin' Lovin' Doll"", were followed by ""Mean Streak"", which carried a rocker's sense of speed and passion, and Lionel Bart's ""Living Doll"". It was on ""Living Doll"" that the Drifters began to back Richard on record. It was his fifth record and became his first No. 1 single. By that time, the group's line-up had changed with the arrival of Jet Harris, Tony Meehan, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch. The group was obliged to change its name to ""The Shadows"" after legal complications with"
"out by war."" China Doll (film) China Doll (a.k.a. ""Time Is a Memory"") is a 1958 romantic drama film set in the China Burma India Theater of World War II and starring Victor Mature and Li Li-Hua. It represented a return to films for director Frank Borzage who had taken a 10-year hiatus before tackling this poignant, yet ""offbeat"" film. In 1943, Captain Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) is a cargo aircraft pilot supplying the Allied troops fighting the Japanese in China. When he is not flying or training his new crew hard, he is usually drinking in the local bar."
"decides to do ""one last job"" to make the money to take them to a fresh start in Canada. He burgles Mort's house, but Mort catches him. After shooting Mort dead, Joe, himself severely wounded, goes on the lam with Caro. Rag Doll (film) Rag Doll, released in the US as Young, Willing and Eager, is a 1961 British B-movie crime film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring actor and singer Jess Conrad. The film gained a new audience in the 2000s in response to Conrad's elevation to cult status as a purveyor of late-1950s and early-1960s pre-Beatles British kitsch,"
"a number one hit for Cliff Richard, ""Living Doll"" was re-recorded by The Young Ones and Richard for Comic Relief, and spent another three weeks at number one. Bart is also credited as being the first manager of The Rolling Stones, and at one stage was Judy Garland's manager. Bart's first professional musical was 1959's ""Lock Up Your Daughters"", based on the 18th-century play ""Rape upon Rape"" by Henry Fielding. Following that, ""Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be"" produced by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, was a landmark in British theatre, noted for encouraging the use of authentic Cockney accents on"
"Baby Doll Baby Doll is a 1956 American black comedy drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach. The film also features Mildred Dunnock and Rip Torn. It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and adapted by Williams from his own one-act play ""27 Wagons Full of Cotton"". The plot focuses on a feud between two rival cotton gin owners in rural Mississippi; after one of the men commits arson against the other's gin, the owner retaliates by attempting to seduce the arsonist's nineteen-year-old virgin bride with the hopes of receiving an"
"also made the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 16. Travellin' Light ""Travellin' Light"" is a UK No. 1 single recorded by Cliff Richard and The Shadows and released in 1959. It was the follow-up single to Richard's first No. 1, ""Living Doll"" and remained at No. 1 for five weeks (one less than ""Living Doll""). ""Travellin' Light"" was also a Number 1 hit in Ireland and Norway, selling 1.59m copies worldwide. It was Richard's last single of the 1950s and his first release after the Shadows had changed their name from the Drifters (so as to not conflict with"
"Travellin' Light ""Travellin' Light"" is a UK No. 1 single recorded by Cliff Richard and The Shadows and released in 1959. It was the follow-up single to Richard's first No. 1, ""Living Doll"" and remained at No. 1 for five weeks (one less than ""Living Doll""). ""Travellin' Light"" was also a Number 1 hit in Ireland and Norway, selling 1.59m copies worldwide. It was Richard's last single of the 1950s and his first release after the Shadows had changed their name from the Drifters (so as to not conflict with the American band of the same name). The B-side, ""Dynamite"""
"combination of the American situation, Cliff Richard's runaway success (""Living Doll"" had by now sold over a million copies in Britain alone) and a bit of nudging from Norrie Paramor, we set about finding a permanent name, which arrived out of the blue one summer's day in July 1959 (maybe the 19th). When Hank Marvin and Jet Harris took off on their scooters up to the Six Bells pub at Ruislip, Jet hit upon a name straight away. 'What about the Shadows?' The lad was a genius! So we became the Shadows for the first time on Cliff's sixth single"
"Diane Bond Diane Loretta Bond (born September 25, 1945, in Los Angeles) is an American former actress and feminist artist and writer, best known for her minor roles in movies during the 1960s. She appeared in films like ""In Like Flint"" (1967), ""House of 1,000 Dolls"" (1967), ""A Swingin' Summer"" (1965), ""Pajama Party"" (1964) and as a beach extra in the TV series ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". Bond also had several uncredited roles such as an air hostess in ""Seconds"" (1966) and a body double for Claudia Cardinale in ""Blindfold"" (1965). After relocating to Italy and studying art, she became an"
"months of 1963. The film suggested to the photographer Daniel Meadows a way in which he might emulate Benjamin Stone and travel around and photograph Britain from 1973 to 1974. It was voted the 99th greatest family film in a Channel 4 poll. ""Summer Holiday"" was adapted into a stage musical in the mid-1990s starring Darren Day in the role that Cliff Richard played. It premiered for a summer season at The Opera House in Blackpool in 1996, and then later toured nationally, before returning to Blackpool in 1998. The cast for these included Claire Buckfield, Isla Fisher, Hilary O'Neil,"
"by Pudney. Sharp made some documentaries: ""As Old as the Windmill"" (1957), ""The Changing Life"" (1958), and ""Keeping the Peace"" (1959). After directing second unit on ""Carve Her Name with Pride"" (1958) and ""Harry Black"" (1958), he wrote and directed ""The Golden Disc"" (1959), the first British rock 'n' roll movie – released a year before the Cliff Richard vehicle ""Expresso Bongo"" (1959) and a full two years ahead of ""Beat Girl"" (1960). It starred Mary Steele, who Sharp married two years earlier. He wrote and directed another film for the Children's Film Foundation, ""The Adventures of Hal 5"" (1959)."
"accompanying ""Neil's Heavy Concept Album"", a loose collection of songs and spoken comedy, included appearances by ""The Young Ones"" alumni Dawn French and Stephen Fry. In 1986 the cast sang ""Living Doll"" with Cliff Richard and Hank Marvin for Comic Relief. The song, a reworking of his 1959 hit, reached the top of the UK, Australian, and New Zealand Charts. Eleven of the twelve episodes had a musical guest performing in the house or street. By including the groups, the show qualified as variety rather than light entertainment by the BBC and was allocated a bigger budget than a sitcom."
"Mogambo Mogambo is a 1953 American Technicolor adventure/romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly and featuring Donald Sinden. The film was adapted by John Lee Mahin from the play ""Red Dust"", by Wilson Collison. The film is a remake of ""Red Dust"" (1932). Eloise ""Honey Bear"" Kelly (Ava Gardner) arrives at a remote African outpost, looking for a rich maharajah acquaintance, only to find he has cancelled his trip owing to unrest in his realm. While waiting for the next river boat out, she spars with hardworking big game hunter Victor"
"been published in one volume. In 2015, the McCarter Theatre, in Princeton, NJ, premiered a stage version of ""Baby Doll,"" adapted by Emily Mann, the theater's artistic director, and Pierre Laville; Laville had written an earlier version which premiered at the Théâtre de l’Atelier in Paris in 2009. The latest adaptation supplemented parts of the movie script with material based on several other Williams' works, including ""Tiger Tale."" Baby Doll Baby Doll is a 1956 American black comedy drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach. The film also features Mildred Dunnock and"
"Emmy Award nomination. He also appeared with Harris in the 1958 television adaptation of ""Johnny Belinda"" and played Torvald Helmer to Harris' Nora in a 1959 television version of Henrik Ibsen's ""A Doll's House"". He also starred in the television adaptations of Philip Barry's ""The Philadelphia Story"" (1959), George Bernard Shaw's ""Captain Brassbound's Conversion"" (1960), Jean Anouilh's ""Time Remembered"" (playing the role of Prince Albert originated by Richard Burton on Broadway), and Edmond Rostand's ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" (1962). In 1964, his performance of the Gloomy Dane in the BBC production ""Hamlet at Elsinore"" garnered his second Emmy nomination. Another notable"
"in 1959. Although ""Hold That Lion!"" was the third film released featuring Shemp after his return to the Stooges, it was filmed after ""Squareheads of the Round Table"" and ""The Hot Scots"", both which still utilized the ""sliding strings"" version of ""Three Blind Mice"" featured in the previous Shemp entries ""Fright Night"" and ""Out West"", and in the final 12 entries starring Curly. The film title is a parody of the football term, ""Hold that line!"" Icabod Slipp's name appears on the door as ""I. Slipp."" This is a semantic parody on the Long Island town of Islip, New York."
"of film. Wonderful Life (1964 film) Wonderful Life (US: Swingers' Paradise) is a 1964 British film made as a vehicle for pop star Cliff Richard and is the third (although the least successful) in a series of film musicals that included ""The Young Ones"" and ""Summer Holiday"". Written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass, directed by Sidney J. Furie, choreographed by Gillian Lynne, it also stars Susan Hampshire, Una Stubbs, Melvyn Hayes, Richard O'Sullivan, Gerald Harper and The Shadows. The movie was filmed in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria city in Spain, and the ""desert"" scenes shot on Maspalomas sand"
"Sunday morning in October 1958 while reading a newspaper and seeing an advert for a child's doll. The doll was said to ""kneel, walk, sit and sing"". Bart recounted, ""I was looking at the back pages and there was a small advert for a doll which could apparently do everything. I wrote the song in ten minutes."" The song was written as an up-tempo light rock and roll song (rather than a ballad), and this is how Cliff Richard performs the song in the film. Unbeknown to Richard, his contract to appear in the film required that there would be"
"Blood Dolls Blood Dolls is a 1999 direct-to-video comedy–horror film written and directed by Charles Band. The story was conceived by Robert Talbot (Band). Virgil Travis is a wealthy, soulless psychopath who lives in seclusion in his mansion home with his dwarf butler (Phil Fondacaro) and his murderous, clown make-up-wearing maniac right-hand man. Tortured and forcibly mutated as a child by a woman who put him through body transforming procedures, Virgil has an abnormally sized head. Basking in the suffering, degradation, pain, and death of others, Virgil has already killed, and kidnapped a female rock group that he keeps imprisoned"
"as Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, Count Basie and Bob Hope, and lyrics for musicals and (subsequently) films. In 1957 and 1958, he wrote lyrics for the musicals ""Make Me an Offer"", the English-language version of ""Irma la Douce"" (based on a 1956 French musical written by Alexandre Breffort and Marguerite Monnot; the English version was nominated for a Broadway Tony Award), and ""Expresso Bongo"" (which ""Time Out"" called the first rock and roll musical). ""Expresso Bongo"", written by Wolf Mankowitz was a West End hit, and was later made into a 1960 film starring a young Cliff Richard). Later musicals"
"the shore were asked to leave their lights burning to provide a romantic backdrop to the action. Filming wound up in February 1959. The film was blacklisted by a British film union because not enough British people worked on it. The film was retitled ""Season of Passion"" for the American market. Although this was announced in November 1960 the film was not released in New York until 1962 on a double bill with ""The Happy Thieves"". Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (film) Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is a 1959 Australian-British film directed by Leslie Norman and is based on"
"Summer Holiday (1963 film) Summer Holiday is a British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film featuring singer Cliff Richard. The film was directed by Peter Yates (his debut), produced by Kenneth Harper. The original screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass (who also wrote most of the song numbers and lyrics). The cast includes Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Teddy Green, Jeremy Bulloch, Una Stubbs, Pamela Hart, Jacqueline Daryl, Lionel Murton, Madge Ryan, David Kossoff, Nicholas Phipps, Ron Moody and The Shadows. Herbert Ross choreographed the musical numbers. The film had its World Premiere at the Warner Theatre in London's"
"a cutting-room assistant at Denham Studios, having got the spot after joining his father, who was at the studio to record the soundtrack for the 1943 film ""The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"". Donner did national service with the Royal Army Educational Corps, and afterwards was hired by Pinewood Studios as a film editor, where the movies he worked on included ""The Card"", ""The Million Pound Note"" starring Gregory Peck, ""I Am a Camera"", Alastair Sim's 1951 Christmas classic ""Scrooge"" and the 1953 ""Genevieve"", a comedy about two couples involved in a vintage automobile rally. He began his professional"
"Alive and Kicking (1959 film) Alive and Kicking is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Estelle Winwood and Stanley Holloway with Richard Harris making his film debut. Its plot follows three women who grow dissatisfied with their lives in a retirement home and escape in order to search for fresh enjoyment and adventure. They eventually end up running a successful cottage industry sweater business on a remote island offshore of Ireland. However the film was shot in Scotland. In 1964 the film was released in the US with the film trailer"
"Serious Charge Serious Charge (also known as A Touch of Hell) is a 1959 British film directed by Terence Young, produced and co-written by Mickey Delamar (with Guy Elmes). Adapted from a stage play written by Philip King, the film is now most notable for being Cliff Richard’s screen acting début in a minor supporting role. An unmarried vicar, the Reverend Howard Phillips (Anthony Quayle), newly arrived in the parish, attempts to get local 19-year-old thug and petty criminal Larry Thompson (Andrew Ray) to face up to his responsibilities to Mary Williams (Leigh Madison), the naive young girl he has"