MBC INTERACTIVE ARCHIVE - USA: Filmmaking in Florida 1960s

The Players

Jerry Lewis

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415 Eden Roc Hotel, Miami Beach, 1960s. USpc

415b Fontainbleau Hotel, Miami Beach, 1960s. USpc

441c Jerry Lewis, The Bellboy, 1960. USstill

441g Jerry Lewis, The Bellboy, 1960. US1sheet

441d Jerry Lewis, The Bellboy, 1960. USstill

441e Jerry Lewis, The Bellboy, 1960. USstill

442 George Marshall, Jerry Lewis, Hook Line and Sinker, 1969. US1sheet

441f Jerry Lewis, The Bellboy, 1960. USstill

The Maysles Brothers, Richard Lester And The Beatles

447b David and Albert Maysles, What_s Happening - The Beatles in the USA, 1964. UScolcard

447 The Beatles, Miami Beach, 1964. John Loengard, Time and Life Pictures. USphoto

450a Richard Lester, The Beatles, A Hard Day_s Night, 1964. USsp

450d Richard Lester, A Hard Day_s Night, 1964. anfk

448b David and Albert Maysles, What_s Happening - The Beatles in the USA, 1964. USstill

447 David and Albert Maysles, What_s Happening - The Beatles in the USA, 1964. UScolcard

448a David and Albert Maysles, What_s Happening - The Beatles in the USA, 1964. USstill

450 Richard Lester, The Beatles, A Hard Day_s Night, 1964 and Help, 1965. USticket

449 The Beatles, 1960s. USpin

447c David and Albert Maysles, What_s Happening - The Beatles in the USA, 1964. USad

450b The Beatles, A Hard Day_s Night, 1964. USpromo

Elvis

452 Elvis Presley, Follow That Dream, 1962. USstill

453b Elvis Presley, Clambake, 1967. US8track

453 Elvis Presley, Clambake, 1967. US8track

453c Elvis Presley, Clambake, 1967. USphoto from the Elvis Prestley Estate in Memphis. 2

446 Boris Sagal, Elvis Prestley, Girl Happy, 1964. USstill

Jackie Gleason

455 Jackie Gleason, The Honeymooners, 1960s. USstill

455b Jackie Gleason cocktail swizzle sticks, Hilton Plaza Hotel, Miami Beach, 1960. USswizzle

456b The Jackie Gleason Show, Miami Beach Auditorium, 1960s. USphoto

456c Jackie Gleason Show, Miami Beach Auditorium, 1960s. USpc

456 Jackie Gleason, The Jackie Gleason Show, 1968. USbio

James Bond 007

462g Sean Connery, James Bond 007, Goldfinger, 1964. USposter

463 Bunny Yeager, Thunderball, 1965. UScontactsheet

462d Sean Connery, James Bond 007, Goldfinger, 1962. UScolcard

462e Sean Connery, James Bond 007, Goldfinger, 1964. USsm

463e Sean Connery, Thunderball, 1965. JP

463i Sean Connery, Thunderball, 1965. JP

463k Sean Connery, Thunderball, 1965. JP

462 Sean Connery, Goldfinger, 1962. USlc

463l Sean Connery, Thunderball, 1965. JP

463q Sean Connery, Thunderball, 1965. USlc

Frank Sinatra & Co.

468-2 Gordon Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Tony Rome, 1967. US1sheet

468a Lewis Milestone, The Rat Pack, Ocean_s Eleven, 1960. USstill

468f Gordon Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Tony Rome, 1967. USlc

467 Gordon Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Tony Rome, 1967. USstill

468 Gordon Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Tony Rome, 1967. USstill

468b Gordon Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Tony Rome, 1967. USstill

468e Gordon Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Tony Rome, 1967. USlc

468d Gordon Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, wardrobe, Tony Rome, 1967. USstill

471 Bunny Yeager, Frank Sinatra, Lady in Cement, 1967. Autographed by Bunny Yeager. USphoto

And Other Gangsters, Grifters, Outcasts and Losers

480 Elliot Silverstein, The Happening, 1967. USlc

480a Eliot Silverstein, The Happening, 1967. USstill

480q Eliott Silverstein, The Happening, 1967. yp

482c-1 John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, 1969. USpb

480b Eliott Silverstein, The Happening, 1967. yp

479 Stuart Rosenberg, Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke, 1967. USstill

481 John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, 1969. USstill

465 Luigi Vanzi, Il mondo di notte - World by Night, 1960. yp

482 John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, 1969. USpb

481e John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, 1969. USlc

488 Jack Arnold, Ricou Browning, Ivan Tors, Hello Down There, 1969. USstill

489 Jack Arnold, Ricou Browning, Ivan Tors, Hello Down There, 1969. US1sheet

488b Jack Arnold, Ricou Browning, Ivan Tors, Hello Down There, 1969. USlc

The Florida Exploit-
ation Boom: Doris Wishman

Doris Wishman was a native New Yorker but began her filmmaking career shooting nudist features in sunny Florida. Between 1958 and 1964 she produced eight nudist films in total, travelling to Florida at least half a dozen times to shoot principle and background footage.

Doris’s first movie, Hideout in the Sun (1960) originally started shooting in Pinellas Pines, but the footage was deemed unusable. On her second outing she worked in South Florida instead, most conspicuously filming at the old Miami Serpentarium on the South Dixie Highway.

Perhaps Doris’s best-known film, Nude on the Moon (1961) was principally filmed at the world-famous Coral Castle in Homestead. Additional scenes were filmed around Miami Beach.

Doris’s third feature, Diary of a Nudist (1961) was partially shot at the Sunny Rest nudist camp in Pennsylvania and partially at the Sunny Palms nudist resort in Homestead. Both camps were owned in part by Zelda Suplee – the “Queen of the Nudists” – who also appears in the film.

Many of the actresses who appeared in Doris Wishman nudist films were models who posed regularly for Miami’s legendary cheesecake photographer, the late, great Bunny Yeager. Among them were Dolores Carlos, Lacey Kelly, Christy Foushee and Maria Stinger.

Blaze Starr was America’s best-known striptease performer when Doris approached her at the Club Piccadilly on Miami Beach about starring in a movie. The result was Blaze Starr Goes Nudist (1962). In one noteworthy scene, Blaze is seen entering the Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road.
-Michael J. Bowen, Doris Wishman biographer

490 Doris Wishman, Nude on the Moon, 1962. US1sheet Style A

490b Doris Wishman, Nude on the Moon, 1962. US1sheet Style B

494 Doris Wishman, Behind the Nudist Curtain, 1964. USpb

493 Doris Wishman shooting in Sunny Palms Lodge nudist camp. USphoto, collection of Michael Bowen, Doris Wishman biographer

494d Doris Wishman, Behind the Nudist Curtain, 1964. USpb

495 Doris Wishman, Bad Girls Go to Hell, 1965. USstill