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Billie (1965)

Billie (1965)
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Billie is a screen version of Ronald Alexander's perennial stage favorite Time Out For Ginger. Patty Duke plays a tomboyish high schooler who excels in athletics but who continues to strike out socially. Jim Backus and Jane Greer perform yeoman service as Duke's parents, who wonder how long it's going to be before their daughter stops trying to be their son. Backus is particularly concerned because he's running for mayor on a platform of "male supremacy" (this is 1965, remember?). From time to time, Duke expresses her frustration in song: her big number finds her holding her gym shoes in one hand, a bottle of perfume in the other. Warren Berlinger also stars as Duke's long-suffering boyfriend. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Starring:
Patty Duke, Jim Backus, (more)
Director(s):
Don Weis
Format(s):
DVD
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Billie is a screen version of Ronald Alexander's perennial stage favorite Time Out For Ginger. Patty Duke plays a tomboyish high schooler who excels in athletics but who continues to strike out socially. Jim Backus and Jane Greer perform yeoman service as Duke's parents, who wonder how long it's going to be before their daughter stops trying to be their son. Backus is particularly concerned because he's running for mayor on a platform of "male supremacy" (this is 1965, remember?). From time to time, Duke expresses her frustration in song: her big number finds her holding her gym shoes in one hand, a bottle of perfume in the other. Warren Berlinger also stars as Duke's long-suffering boyfriend. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
87 mins

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Director(s):
Don Weis
Writer(s):
Ronald Alexander
Producer(s):
Don Weis
Categories:
Romance, Comedy
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    Megan E.

    Really cute film! Singing's not great but the music and dancing are good and the story is timeless. Definitely worth watching!

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    Cindy W.

    I thought the movie was awesome better then I remembered it. It is about over comming the stero types of the ealy years that sports was a boys (mans) world and she Billie (Patty Duke)proves them all wrong by running faster and doing track and field better then her counter parts. Her Father (Jim Backus) is running for Mayor of the town and is afraid that he will be wrond by the pulblisity and is not pleased until she makes him see things are not as they seem and he becomes proud of her and steps up and says she can do what she wants to do. From Tom Boy to A blossem butterfly comming into her own. She is and always has been the best.

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    Michael B.

    My first thought is, this film is a little hokey and very much ahead of it's time. Patty Duke plays Billie, a Tomboy who becomes a track star in genaric middle american high school. To get to her status she uses rock music and it takes 'the beat'. She faces resistance from both her father, the high school principal and the mayor of the town. Eventually, by running,she realizes that she can be what she wants to be either on the track or off. What I found interesting is that how she got on the team on ability alone at the request of the coach who saw a winner.

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