Copyright 1 September 1965 by Chrislaw-Patty Duke Productions. U.S. release: 1 September 1965. New York opening at the Astor, the Trans- Lux East and others: 15 September 1965. U.K. release: 13 December 1965. Australian release: 25 August 1966. 7,800 feet. 87 minutes. Censored to 85 minutes in Australia.
SYNOPSIS: Billie Carol (Patty Duke), tomboyish teenager can do anything any boy on the athletic team of Harding High can do, only better. This embarrasses her father, Howard Carol (Jim Backus), who is running for mayor on a "male supremacy" ticket. Billie's boy friend is Mike (Warren Berlinger) who is also on the team but runs her a poor second. This gets him mad and he demands she quit so that he may shine. She refuses and they break up. At this point, a undignified photo of Billie and her father falls into the hands of Mayor Davis (Billy De Wolfe) whom Billie's father means to unseat, and he makes the most of it. A rumor gets around that Billie's older sister Jean (Susan Seaforth) is pregnant, and Davis makes the most of this, too.
NOTES: "Time Out for Ginger" as presented by Shepard Traube opened on Broadway on the 26 November 1952 at the Lyceum, running a successful 248 performances. Nancy Malone, Polly Rowles, Philip Loeb and Conrad Janis starred.
COMMENT: A big welcome back to Billy De Wolfe, making his first film for some time. His debates with Jim Backus are the highlight of the film. Other veterans present include Jane Greer, Charles Lane and Richard Deacon. Don Weis' direction is nondescript enough, but there are some amusing lines and, all in all, the film is an agreeable surprise.
OTHER VIEWS: The association of Peter Lawford, Patty Duke and Don Weis in Chrislaw Production's "Billie", the gay, romantic Technicolor United Artists release, is a reunion of long time friends as well as a combination of top-flight Hollywood talent. Weis is producer- director of this, Miss Duke's first Hollywood starer, and Lawford is its executive producer. At Metro a few years ago, Weis directed two television pilots in which Lawford starred — "Dear Phoebe" and "The Thin Man" — and went on to direct additional episodes of each. With two Directors Guild Awards and an additional Guild award nomination to his credit, Weis' motion picture and television accomplishments lead one to believe that he hasn't had a day off since coming to Hollywood and such, indeed, is pretty nearly the case. After working as a script clerk and dialogue director for, among others Stanley Kramer, he went to M-G-M where he directed such films as "Bannerline", "A Slight Case of Larceny" and "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis". — U.A. Publicity.
SYNOPSIS: Billie Carol (Patty Duke), tomboyish teenager can do anything any boy on the athletic team of Harding High can do, only better. This embarrasses her father, Howard Carol (Jim Backus), who is running for mayor on a "male supremacy" ticket. Billie's boy friend is Mike (Warren Berlinger) who is also on the team but runs her a poor second. This gets him mad and he demands she quit so that he may shine. She refuses and they break up. At this point, a undignified photo of Billie and her father falls into the hands of Mayor Davis (Billy De Wolfe) whom Billie's father means to unseat, and he makes the most of it. A rumor gets around that Billie's older sister Jean (Susan Seaforth) is pregnant, and Davis makes the most of this, too.
NOTES: "Time Out for Ginger" as presented by Shepard Traube opened on Broadway on the 26 November 1952 at the Lyceum, running a successful 248 performances. Nancy Malone, Polly Rowles, Philip Loeb and Conrad Janis starred.
COMMENT: A big welcome back to Billy De Wolfe, making his first film for some time. His debates with Jim Backus are the highlight of the film. Other veterans present include Jane Greer, Charles Lane and Richard Deacon. Don Weis' direction is nondescript enough, but there are some amusing lines and, all in all, the film is an agreeable surprise.
OTHER VIEWS: The association of Peter Lawford, Patty Duke and Don Weis in Chrislaw Production's "Billie", the gay, romantic Technicolor United Artists release, is a reunion of long time friends as well as a combination of top-flight Hollywood talent. Weis is producer- director of this, Miss Duke's first Hollywood starer, and Lawford is its executive producer. At Metro a few years ago, Weis directed two television pilots in which Lawford starred — "Dear Phoebe" and "The Thin Man" — and went on to direct additional episodes of each. With two Directors Guild Awards and an additional Guild award nomination to his credit, Weis' motion picture and television accomplishments lead one to believe that he hasn't had a day off since coming to Hollywood and such, indeed, is pretty nearly the case. After working as a script clerk and dialogue director for, among others Stanley Kramer, he went to M-G-M where he directed such films as "Bannerline", "A Slight Case of Larceny" and "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis". — U.A. Publicity.