The Girl from Jones Beach
I. A. L. Diamond, the acerbic screenwriter for Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, concocted this wafer-thin screwball comedy directed by Peter Godfrey. Ronald Reagan and Eddie Bracken are searching for an elusive blonde who’s hiding in plain sight: a shy teacher who moonlights at the beach in a form-fitting swimsuit. The mystery girl is played by Virginia Mayo, an apple-cheeked sex kitten who personified the post-war pin-up girl.
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About Gillian Wallace Horvat
Gillian Wallace Horvat is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, writer, and film programmer. Her first short film, GUNPLAY, was a 2007 Wasserman Semi-Finalist. KISS KISS FINGERBANG, starring Anton Yelchin, Kate Lyn Sheil, and Buck Henry was awarded the Jury Prize in the Midnight Shorts category at the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival. Her films have screened in festivals around the world including SXSW, Fantasia, Palm Springs, and many others.Gillian also produced A FULLER LIFE, a documentary on the life and films of director Samuel Fuller that premiered at the 2013 Venice Film Festival. Recently she has produced documentary shorts for Arrow Films, Kino Lorber, and Olive Films. She is also a guest columnist for Filmmaker Magazine and her writing has appeared in Sight & Sound.
Reagan? Ugh.
Had the Dems had any sense at all in the ’80s, they would’ve impeached that goblin for Iran-Contra. Or for Grenada.