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5.6/10   155 votes
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Director:
Don Weis
Writers:
Ronald Alexander (play)
Ronald Alexander (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
13 December 1965 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance | Sport more
Tagline:
Billie's Got the Beat!
Plot:
A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor. | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
A Pre-Neeley O'Hara Treat more (8 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Patty Duke ... Billie Carol
Jim Backus ... Howard G. Carol
Jane Greer ... Agnes Carol
Warren Berlinger ... Mike Benson
Billy De Wolfe ... Mayor Charlie Davis

Charles Lane ... Coach Jones
Dick Sargent ... Matt Bullitt
Susan Seaforth Hayes ... Jean Matthews (as Susan Seaforth)
Ted Bessell ... Robert 'Bob' Matthews
Richard Deacon ... Principal Arnold Wilson
Bobby Diamond ... Eddie Davis
Michael Fox ... Ray Case, Reporter
Clive Clerk ... Ted Chekas
Harlan Warde ... Doctor Hall
Jean MacRae ... Nurse Webb
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
87 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:S
Filming Locations:
University High School - 11800 Texas Avenue, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Company:
Chrislaw Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Donna McKechnie's movie debut. more
Quotes:
Howard G. Carol: In dealing with women, a man must shun reason and logic. more
Movie Connections:
Version of "The Comedy Spot: Time Out for Ginger" (1962) more
Soundtrack:
She is a Girl is a Girl more

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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
A Pre-Neeley O'Hara Treat, 13 December 2005
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Author: Isaac5855 from United States

I remember my parents taking me to see BILLIE at the local drive-in when I was a kid. Patty Duke, pre-Valley of the Dolls, played this tomboyish teenage girl who could outrun all the boys in her school thanks to something in her head that she called "the beat", but boys don't like to go out with girls who run faster than they do, so Billie is pretty much alone until she compromises her feminist ideals, sings a corny song about becoming a woman, and purposely loses a race so that she can have the boy of her dreams, who I believe was played by Warren Berlinger. I think Jim Backus played her father, who was running for Mayor on a "Women belong in the home" platform while his daughter was out running track with the boys. This movie was kind of corny, but Patty played the role energetically and I liked her blonde, Mia Farrow haircut.

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