Sue Williams

The most quirkily offbeat and one of the best of the “Beach Party” movies starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, “How to Stuff a Wild Bikini” finds Frankie off in the navy, serving in the South Pacific. Worried about all of the guys that will be hitting on Dee Dee (Funicello) back at the beach, he convinces a magician (Buster Keaton) to conjure up a siren, Cassandra (Beverly Adam), whom no man can resist. Cassandra succeeds in distracting all attention away from Dee Dee. However, a mentally unbalanced advertising man (Mickey Rooney) decides to make Cassandra’s unstoppable sex appeal a national obsession, and she gets noticed by bike gang leader Erik Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck), who vows to make her his. Throw in an unusual disappearing pelican and mayhem (and fun) ensues!

With Frankie away in Tahiti with his navel reserve unit, Dee Dee and the rest of the beach part gang are involved in a new series of adventures. These are spurred by an opportunistic advertising man, a good-looking male newcomer and a mysterious and beautiful girl named Cassandra, plus an oddly appearing and disappearing pelican.

With Frankie away in Tahiti with his navel reserve unit, Dee Dee and the rest of the beach part gang are involved in a new series of adventures. These are spurred by an opportunistic advertising man, a good-looking male newcomer and a mysterious and beautiful girl named Cassandra, plus an oddly appearing and disappearing pelican.