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Release year: 1960

Storyline

Four very different college girls drive to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break and seek out various adventures and romance for themselves.

Top credits

Directors

Henry Levin

Writers

Cast

Dolores Hart — Merritt Andrews
George Hamilton — Ryder Smith
Yvette Mimieux — Melanie Tolman
Jim Hutton — TV Thompson

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Did you know

• Paula Prentiss signed a seven-year contract with MGM in 1960 when she was cast in this movie. She was living with boyfriend actor Richard Benjamin at the time, which was taboo in those days, and the studio didn't want her traveling on promotion junkets with a man who wasn't her spouse. So they asked the two to wed, though not before milking the wedding for publicity. Prentiss had to make long-distance calls to gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons just before the ceremony, according to People. They were married by a New York judge on Oct. 26, 1961. They are still together as of 2022.

• Dolores Hart left Hollywood a few years after this movie was released and became a Benedictine nun; she has been a Mother Superior for many years. As a member in good standing of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she is the only nun who votes for the Oscars, just as she is the only nun ever to be photographed for "Playboy" magazine.

• Film debuts of Paula Prentiss and Connie Francis.