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    Palm Springs Weekend (1963)

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    A group of college kids with raging hormones head to the desert resort of Palm Springs in California for the Easter weekend, looking for fun with members of the opposite sex.

    Among those heading to Palm Springs are a college basketball team including medical student Jim Munroe (Troy Donahue) and comedian Biff Roberts (Jerry Van Dyke); Texan cowboy and Hollywood stuntman Doug “Stretch” Fortune (Ty Hardin); Eric Dean (Robert Conrad), a rich and troubled playboy neglected by his equally playboy father; Beverly Hills socialite and Hawaii college student Gayle Lewis (Connie Stevens), who is not all she appears to be; and tomboy Amanda North (Zeme North).

    Chief of Police Dixon (Andrew Duggan), the official ruler of order in Palm Springs, dreads the annual influx of spring break teens – even more so this year because his pretty daughter Bunny (Stefanie Powers), is now the same age as the town’s invaders.

    The “unofficial” ruler of order in town is Naomi Yates (Carole Cook), the proprietor of one of the local motels where the kids stay, who has enough to handle already taking care of her precocious 9-year-old son “Boom-Boom” (future Lost In Space star Billy Mumy).

    Romance is in the air for everyone, even Naomi who gets to have a fling with basketball coach Fred Campbell (Jack Weston).

    Palm Springs Weekend featured the uncredited screen debut of Dawn Wells (who appeared the following year as Mary Ann in Gilligan’s Island) and Linda Gray (who found fame in the 1980s as Sue Ellen Ewing in Dallas).

    Jim Munroe
    Troy Donahue
    Gayle Lewis/Jane Hoover
    Connie Stevens
    Doug ‘Stretch’ Fortune
    Ty Hardin
    Bunny Dixon
    Stefanie Powers
    Eric Dean
    Robert Conrad
    Police Chief Dixon
    Andrew Duggan
    Coach Fred Campbell
    Jack Weston
    Naomi Yates
    Carole Cook
    Biff Roberts
    Jerry Van Dyke
    Amanda North
    Zeme North
    ‘Boom Boom’ Yates
    Billy Mumy
    Cora Dixon
    Dorothy Green
    Gabby
    Robert Gothie
    Hap 
    Owen Orr (as Greg Benedict)
    Fred
    Gary Kincaid
    Mike
    Mark Dempsey
    Dave
    Jim Shane
    Jerry
    Jerry Catron
    Ruth Stewart
    Tina Cole
    Shirley
    Shirley Eder
    Louie
    Louie Elias
    Henry Blanchard
    Oliver McGowan

    Director
    Norman Taurog

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