Where the Boys Are (MGM) (1960)

GEORGE HAMILTON IS ONE YOUNG MAN WHO ISN'T ANGRY Antonym for “angry young man”: George Hamilton. He’s Hollywood’s new dark-haired actor currently causing a king-sized stir among teen-agers, and he’s just about as different from today’s “angry young men” as can be. “T guess I’m out of step with the leaders,” he grins. “If I have to be categorized, I’d fit best in the ‘happy young men’ class.” There’s no doubt that Hamilton doesn’t follow the prevalent pattern of the brooding rebel. This 21-year-old is eager to meet life head-on, anxious to expand his horizons and wants to compress as much as possible into every minute. As one writer put it: “He is the most alive-looking man Hollywood has seen since Jack Gilbert.” Certainly he is one of the most individualistic and hardest-working young actors in filmland today. Since his arrival two years ago, he has completed five pictures, the latest being MetroGoldwyn-Mayer’s comedy, “Where the Boys Are,” in which he stars. He is already recognized by his breezy manner, his flair for dressing like a movie star, and as an actor who refuses to be just another handsome face in the crowd. “TI think that’s the thing about the so-called angry young men that annoys me most,” he says. “They’re all so alike, mad at the world, griping about this and that, and for the most part doing nothing about anything.” IN CHARACTER What do players do on the set when they’re not needed in front of the cameras? George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, Barbara Nichols, Paula Prentiss and Connie Francis, starring in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s comedy, “Where the Boys Are,” found a unique diversion. They submitted samples of their handwriting to fellow actress Dolores Hart. Dolores is an expert at making character analyses from scribblings. STAR IN “WHERE THE BOYS ARE” Dolores Hart and George Hamilton find romance on the beach at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in ‘‘Where the Boys Are,”’ youthful story of love and laughs during a college springtime vacation. Also starred in the MGM CinemaScope and color attraction are Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, Barbara Nichols, Paula Prentiss, Chill Wills and famed songstress Connie Francis, making her motion picture debut. Still 1768-60 Where the Boys Are Mat 2-D YES, THERE'S A YOUNG MAN IN DOLORES HART'S LIFE, AND HE LIKES BOW TIES There’s definitely a young man in Dolores Hart’s life, even though the pretty blonde has managed to be quite cagey about romantic attachments during her three-year Hollywood career. The lucky fellow is rather small, displays a penchant for bow ties, has brown eyes, wears his white hair long and is obviously devoted to the young star. Happily, she appears to think just as highly of him and is seen in his company almost everywhere her busy life takes her. It’s not a recent thing, either. They’ve been going steady now for almost two years. His name? Pogo. His background? French poodle. They first met in New York when Miss Hart was appearing in a Broadway play. And her family had approved of the match before Pogo ever met the actress. In fact, it was all her mother’s idea. Mrs. Albert Gordon sent the six Pedigreed toy Paula Prentiss (left) and Dolores Hart face the problem of a love-smitten roommate, Yvette Mimieux (center) in this scene from MGM’s romantic comedy, ‘‘Where the Boys Are.’ Also starred in the CinemaScope and color attraction are George Hamilton, Jim Hutton, Barbara Nichols, Chill Wills and famed songstress Connie Francis, making her motion picture debut. » Still 1768-44 Where the Boys Are Mat 2-C inch-long puppy to her daughter in the East as “loneliness protection.” It worked. Dolores, currently starring in MetroGoldwyn-Mayer’s “Where the Boys Are,” says, ‘At first, I thought having a dog would be a drag, but after a few hours together I realized that we were kindred spirits—very simpatico. We don’t like to run with the mob, Pogo and I. We like to follow our own paths and usually do.” This means that if the spirit moves them, they take off for the park with an armful of books, Or perhaps Dolores and dog will turn down an invitation to a beach party and, instead, go for a stroll along a rock-strewn isolated stretch of coast. Then again, the two may pile into her convertible and take a ride through the mountains. Wherever their inclinations do send them, this couple makes quite a picture. Pogo isn’t much for dressing up and avoids the poodle parlor except for a very occasional grooming, but he does have a weakness for wearing bow ties. His favorite is a formal, black, patentleather job. Connie Francis Makes Film Acting Bow and Sings, Too Music plays a big role in MetroGoldwyn-Mayer’s new romantic comedy, “Where the Boys Are,” film version of Glendon Swarthout’s best-selling novel of collegiate capers during the annual student vacation trek to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Making her film debut in the picture is popular songstress, Connie Francis, who, in addition to playing a stellar comedy role, sings two numbers, the title song and “Turn On the Sunshine.” Barbara Nichols, who plays the star of an underwater act in a tank, sings “Have You Met Miss Fandango?” a posthumously published melody by Victor Young with lyrics by Stella Unger. And jazz musician Pete Rugolo composed five progressive jazz numbers for the picture. Boasting “way out” titles, they include “The Nuclear Love Song,” “Meeting Between Shakespeare and Satchel Paige,” “Rub Rosin On My Bow,” “Come Bongo With Me” and “Down Tuttle Street.” PAULA PRENTISS, NEW FILM DISCOVERY, FOUND ON NORTHWESTERN UNIV. CAMPUS One day last spring, Paula Prentiss, a tall, attractive, brunette co-ed, was relaxing in her sorority-house room on Northwestern University’s campus. At last, the long-awaited summer vacation was at hand. Bags and trunk were packed and tacked with labels directing them to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Then the phone rang. It was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive calling from New York, Would Paula fly to New York for a screen test instead of training home to Tulsa the next day? She would, she did and subsequently landed one of the leading roles in the studio’s girl-happy comedy, “Where the Boys Are.” Plus a long-term exclusive contract! All this in the space of a week and happening to a girl who had never even thought about being in motion pictures. “The stage was the focal point of my ambition,’ Miss Prentiss explains. “After studying drama at Northwestern, playing a summer of stock at Eagle’s Mere, Pennsylvania, and then taking a year of graduate study, I planned to head for New York. Getting in the movies seemed too impossible.” But fate intervened in the form of a talent scout, who was told to find a seasoned comedienne who looked like a college girl—a quite tall college girl. Paula measured up on all counts. At Northwestern, she had performed in all types of plays from Shakespeare to Sartre, from tragedy to light comedy. She looks like a college man’s dream walking, and sans heels stands a statuesque 5 feet, 9 inches. That was the happy discovery await COINCIDENCE Tall, comedy-talented Jim Hutton, one of the screen’s young newcomers being groomed for big things by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and now playing one of the top roles in the collegiate comedy, “Where the Boys Are,” once won an F. Scott Fitzgerald prize in a high school writing competition. Recently, he moved froma Hollywood apartment into a house at Malibu Beach and discovered that at one time it had been the home of—F. Scott Fitzgerald. Popular songstress Connie Francis makes her motion picture debut in MGM’s ‘“‘Where the Boys Are.”’ Although Connie sings two songs in the film, her role is primarily a light comedy characterization. Also starred in the CinemaScope and color attraction are Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, Barbara Nichols, Paula Prentiss and Chill Wills. Still Connie Francis-5291 Where the Boys Aré Mat 1-E Discovered on the campus of Northwestern University, lovely Paula Prentiss makes her film debut as one of the youthful stars of MGM’s gay romantic comedy, **Where the Boys Are.”” Also playing top roles in the CinemaScope and color attraction are Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, Barbara Nichols, Chill Wills and popular songstress Connie Francis. Still Paula Prentiss-5230 Where the Boys Are Mat 1-D ing the MGM scout when his search for “Tuggle” took him to Northwestern. (Tuggle being the co-ed in “Where the Boys Are’ who goes to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during the Easter vacation in search of a boy ag tall as she is and with bigger feet.) He saw Paula in “A Hatful of Rain” and sent the good word on to New York, Thus the important longdistance call to her that day last June. After preliminary readings in the East, she flew to the West Coast to make a screen test for Producer Joe Pasternak. Even before the results, Pasternak, noted as a_ star-maker, dubbed Paula perfect for the part. Director Henry Levin concurred, Only a week after all this hubbub, Miss Prentiss boarded a plane for the Fort Lauderdale location of the comedy. “Tt was exciting enough getting this break,” she says, “but there I was flying all over the country, too!” SO, EVERYBODY IN THE CAST GOT WET! Have a pretty girl perform in a tank in a night club—have a group of collegians on vacation drinking at a table adjacent to the tank—and you can be pretty certain that before the evening is over, One or more of the exuberant students is going to join her in the act—and in the tank! This is one of the high-comedy moments of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Where the Boys Are,” which has a cast of youthful stars, including Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, songstress Connie Francis in her film debut, and Barbara Nichols—as the girl in the tank. Barbara, whose new role is a followup to her hijinks in “Who Was That Lady?,” claims it is her most arduous role to date. Not only did she have to fend off the underwater advances of Jim Hutton, who pursues her into the tank, along with seven other members of the cast, but she had to live up to the “show must go on’ tradition by continuing with her act, a quasi-ballet routine. On top of that, the young actress, who admittedly has always been a little afraid of water, had to accustom herself to being submerged in the H2O by way of spending several nights a week in the pool of a Hollywood health club!