Frank Albertson

A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his 'farewell' television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted.

An exiled crime boss trains a young Sicilian thug to be a heartless assassin who then goes to America to wipe out rival mobsters.

Lots of laughs and great songs have made this all-time favorite based on the hit Broadway show one of the most memorable musicals of all time. When rock star and teenage heart-throb Conrad Birdie gets drafted, the nation's teenagers go haywire and Conrad's manager, Albert (Dick Van Dyke), faces unemployment. So Albert and his girlfriend (Janet Leigh) organize a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss from Conrad on the Ed Sullivan Show. Kim McAfee (Ann-Margret) turns outto be the lucky teenager and Conrad's whole entourage moves into her quiet, Midwestern home much tothe chagrin of her ever irritable father (Paul Lynde) and her jealous boyfriend (Bobby Rydell). Theresult is chaos and a series of hilarious romantic complications.

Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke star in this irresistible account of Elvis-mania in the 1950s. Based on the Broadway smash.