It was reported that Jack Warner was impressed by the smash hit business MGM Where The Boys Are that he commissione this Warner Bros film. What resulted was a smash hit film starring Troy Donahue the biggest star on the WB lot. Co-starring Connie Stevens a huge fan favorite who starred with Troy in two WB hits Delmer Davis duo Parrish and Susan Slade. Ty Hardin who was tV's Bronco was cast. Hardin was the star of WB's Wall of Noise co starring another WB star Dorothy Provine.. Filling out the Palm Springs cast were Bob Conrad star of WB's Hawaiin Eye TV show and Stefanie Powers on loan from her studio Columbia.
Norman Taurog directs in an easy light manner. Carol Cook- a great friend of Lucille Ball- does a nice job as the frantic motel manager where all are staying.
Troy Donahue had clout at WB coming off the romantic Delmer Davis Rome Adventure with Suzanne Pleshette whom he married in a big wedding the cost picked up by Warner Bros. Troy was given the star treatment billed over Claudette Colbert in the lushly romantic Parrish co starring three WB stars Connie Stevens, Diane McBain, Sharon Hugueny, Susan Slade with Ms. Stevens, Rome Adventure with Pleshette and Angie Dickinson, A Distant Trumpet, a Western directed by legendary Raoul Walsh again with Pleshette and McBain and another WB player William Reynolds. Troy had a close friend who was given the stage name Greg Benedict and thru Donahue's pull Benedict was given roles in WB films such as The Great Race and TV shows such as Hank, and had his biggest role in Palm Springs Weekend . Benedict served as Donahue's Best Man at his wedding to Ms. Pleshette. After Donahue left WB Benedict reverted to his given name Owen Orr , Troy Donahue had a star bungalow at WB, and was always first billed top billed but he asked for his release and Warner got furious and is reputed to have blackballed Donahue. His rise and fall would be a subject of a good book.
Watching this film one sees a great group of WB players: Donahue, Stevens, Hardin, and Conrad
TCM Network recently had a Ty Hardin day with Hardin in Merrill's Marauders, Wall of Noise, Palm Springs Weekend, The Cha[man Report, PT 109
I refer to these following movies as "studio pictures" Some of the WB films starring the WB stock company: Parrish (Donahue, Stevens McBain, Hugueny, Hampton Fancher)), Susan Slade (Donahue,Stevens) Claudette English (McBain, Chad Everett, Will Hutchins), Wall of Noise (Hardin, Dorothy Provine) Rome Adventure (Donahue, Pleshette), Fancher), Two on a Guillotine (Stevens), Black Gold (McBain), Palm Springs Weekend, (Donahue, Stevens, Hardin, Conrad) , Yellowstone Kelly (Clint Walker, Edd Byrnes), My Blood Runs Cold (Donahue). House of Women (Shirley Knight) The Couch, (ShirleyKnight),
There is a great group photo of Jack Warner with all the many WB contract players on the WB Lot, google it!
Norman Taurog directs in an easy light manner. Carol Cook- a great friend of Lucille Ball- does a nice job as the frantic motel manager where all are staying.
Troy Donahue had clout at WB coming off the romantic Delmer Davis Rome Adventure with Suzanne Pleshette whom he married in a big wedding the cost picked up by Warner Bros. Troy was given the star treatment billed over Claudette Colbert in the lushly romantic Parrish co starring three WB stars Connie Stevens, Diane McBain, Sharon Hugueny, Susan Slade with Ms. Stevens, Rome Adventure with Pleshette and Angie Dickinson, A Distant Trumpet, a Western directed by legendary Raoul Walsh again with Pleshette and McBain and another WB player William Reynolds. Troy had a close friend who was given the stage name Greg Benedict and thru Donahue's pull Benedict was given roles in WB films such as The Great Race and TV shows such as Hank, and had his biggest role in Palm Springs Weekend . Benedict served as Donahue's Best Man at his wedding to Ms. Pleshette. After Donahue left WB Benedict reverted to his given name Owen Orr , Troy Donahue had a star bungalow at WB, and was always first billed top billed but he asked for his release and Warner got furious and is reputed to have blackballed Donahue. His rise and fall would be a subject of a good book.
Watching this film one sees a great group of WB players: Donahue, Stevens, Hardin, and Conrad
TCM Network recently had a Ty Hardin day with Hardin in Merrill's Marauders, Wall of Noise, Palm Springs Weekend, The Cha[man Report, PT 109
I refer to these following movies as "studio pictures" Some of the WB films starring the WB stock company: Parrish (Donahue, Stevens McBain, Hugueny, Hampton Fancher)), Susan Slade (Donahue,Stevens) Claudette English (McBain, Chad Everett, Will Hutchins), Wall of Noise (Hardin, Dorothy Provine) Rome Adventure (Donahue, Pleshette), Fancher), Two on a Guillotine (Stevens), Black Gold (McBain), Palm Springs Weekend, (Donahue, Stevens, Hardin, Conrad) , Yellowstone Kelly (Clint Walker, Edd Byrnes), My Blood Runs Cold (Donahue). House of Women (Shirley Knight) The Couch, (ShirleyKnight),
There is a great group photo of Jack Warner with all the many WB contract players on the WB Lot, google it!
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