The film ends on a melancholy note, with Melanie recovering in the hospital with Merritt looking after her. Ultimately, the girls have seemingly learned the potentially serious consequences of their actions, and resolve to act more maturely and responsibly. Just as her friends arrive, she is sideswiped by a car and is rushed to the hospital. Melanie, her dress torn, walks into traffic, looking distraught and feeling suicidal. Franklin had moved on to another girl, but told Dill that Melanie was "easy" and set up the ambush. The relationship angst of Merritt, Tuggle, and Angie evaporates when they discover Melanie is in distress after trysting with Franklin at a motel and instead finding there another of the "Yalies", Dill, who had raped her. Angie stumbles into a relationship with eccentric jazz musician Basil ( Frank Gorshin). Tuggle quickly fixes her attention on goofy "TV" Thompson ( Jim Hutton), a junior at Michigan State University, but becomes disillusioned when he becomes infatuated with performer Lola Fandango ( Barbara Nichols), a "mermaid" swimmer/dancer in a local nightclub. Melanie discovers that Franklin (Rory Harrity), a boy from Yale University who she thought loved her, was only using her for sex. Merritt, a freshman, meets suave, darkly handsome Ryder Smith ( George Hamilton), a senior at Brown University, and realizes she's not ready for sex. The girls find their attitudes challenged. The athletic Angie ( Connie Francis), who is clueless about romance, rounds out the group.
Tuggle Carpenter ( Paula Prentiss) seeks to be a "baby-making machine", lacking only a man to join her in marriage. Lovely Melanie Tolman ( Yvette Mimieux), a magnet for young men, loses her virginity on her first date, soon after the young women arrive in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In a class discussion, smart, down-to-earth Merritt Andrews ( Dolores Hart) suggests that premarital sex might be something young women should experience. The film mainly focuses on the "coming of age" of four girl students at a midwestern university during spring vacation. It won Laurel Awards for Best Comedy of the Year and Best Comedy Actress (Paula Prentiss). Aimed at the teen market, it inspired many American college students to head to Fort Lauderdale for their annual spring break. Where the Boys Are was one of the first teen films to explore adolescent sexuality and the changing sexual morals and attitudes among American college youth. The title song "Where the Boys Are" was sung by Connie Francis, who also co-starred in a supporting role. The screenplay concerns four college co-eds who spend spring break in Fort Lauderdale. It was written by George Wells based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout. Where the Boys Are is a 1960 American CinemaScope comedy film directed by Henry Levin and starring Connie Francis, Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, and Frank Gorshin.
$3.5 million (US rentals) (equivalent to $23.9 million in 2020) Available at: million (equivalent to $14 million in 2020) Women of Achievement and Herstory, 14-15 August 1995, Episode 381 & 382. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and Adopted People. She retired and in 1980 married the actor Fred Astaire (1899-1987), who was 55 years older than she.ĭever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. She became a jockey in 1969 and in 1973 became the first woman to win a major race in the USA (riding North Sea in the Paumonok Handicap at Aqueduct), in spite of her size and weight (5'7" is tall for a jockey). She may also have later spent time in a children's home or "women's residence." After a further court case she was returned to her birth mother but later went back to her adoptive family. She was then adopted by a family who named her Caroline Smith. Her father deserted her and her mother (who was 17 when she was born), and her mother was declared mentally unstable by the courts, who placed Melody in a foster home.
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