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Produced by Fred Kohlmar, the film stars Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Maureen Stapleton, Bobby Rydell, Jesse Pearson, and Ed Sullivan. Van Dyke and featured player Paul Lynde reprised their roles from the original Broadway production.
22 years old. Kim McAfee is described as a teenager, but Ann-Margret was 22 years old when she played this role and looks nothing like a teenager.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(p7vFZuuSHdvJwPAPsu3D6QQ__46,
In one of her first major starring roles, Ann-Margret (singing the title song, written expressly for her by Strouse and Adams), turned what had been a minor part into a personal showcase, and stole the film as the ebullient, vivacious teenager who got serenaded by Conrad on the Ed Sullivan Show – and yes, because the ...
Kim MacAfee. Albert will collect his royalties, and they'll be free of Birdie, free to marry. The lucky girl is Kim MacAfee of Sweet Apple, Ohio, who has just been “pinned” by her boyfriend, Hugo Peabody, as we learn from her friends in “The Telephone Hour.” Now we meet Kim (Susan Watson).);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(p7vFZuuSHdvJwPAPsu3D6QQ__53,
Birdie (book by Michael Stewart, music by Charles Strouse, and lyrics by Lee Abrams) is based on Elvis Presley's 1958 induction into the U.S. Army, with fictional rock star Conrad Birdie as the Elvis stand-in (the Conrad Birdie name is a play on Conway Twitty, the rockabilly star who was considered for the lead and who ...