Frankie Avalon Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.

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Possibly Interesting Facts About Frankie Avalon

1. Francis Thomas Avallone was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1939.  His father was a United States Civil War veteran

2. In the late 1950s, teen idols were often given roles in films, supporting older male stars in order to attract a younger audience, such as Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo (1959).  Alan Ladd’s daughter was a Frankie Avalon fan, who recommended that he co-star with her father in the Western Guns of the Timberland (1960). Avalon sings two songs, “The Faithful Kind” and “Gee Whiz Whillikins Golly Gee”; both were released as singles.

3.  Frankie Avalon’s movie career really took off when he was paired with former Mousketeer Annette Funicello in Beach Party (1963) and its string of sequels.

4.  The 1980 film The Idolmaker, written by Ed Di Lorenzo and directed by Taylor Hackford, was a thinly-disguised biography of Frankie Avalon (Tommy Dee in the movie) as well as 1950s teenage star Fabian Forte (Caesar in the movie).

5.  Due to the popularity of Grease (1978) and its soundtrack, Frankie Avalon considers “Beauty School Dropout” to be his most popular song.

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