{"id":3826,"date":"2016-07-27T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T12:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2016-07-27T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T12:10:16","slug":"happy-birthday-elvis-gal-lyn-edgington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/27\/happy-birthday-elvis-gal-lyn-edgington\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS GAL LYN EDGINGTON!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"alyn\"<\/a>The late Lyn Edgington was a pretty sandy blonde\u00a0with All-American girl-next-door appeal who specialized in playing fun-loving coeds on the big screen.\u00a0Lyn made her film debut playing a proud college coed who leads Sandra Dee and other students in a sit-in (\u201cBottoms always on the floor!\u201d) protesting book censorship in the comedy Take Her, She\u2019s Mine<\/em> (1963) starring James Stewart. She then transferred universities when cast as one of Carol Lynley\u2019s envious college classmates who revel in the coed\u2019s plan to live platonically with her boyfriend Dean Jones to see if they are marriage compatible in the comedy Under the Yum Yum Tree<\/em> (1963) also starring Jack Lemmon as an amorous playboy landlord determined to deflower Lynley. \u00a0She played another perky coed who challenges poet James Stewart\u2019s diatribe against science in the comedy, Dear Brigitte<\/em> (1965).<\/p>\n

But her most memorable appearance was in Girl Happy<\/em> (1965). Coeds Lyn and Chris Noel convince roommate Shelley Fabares to defy her father Harold J. Stone and join them on a jaunt to Fort Lauderdale for Spring Break.\u00a0 However, the coeds aren\u2019t as clever as they think as Stone hires Elvis Presley and his combo to secretly chaperone the trio while performing at a local nightclub.\u00a0 As the girls drive south they sing the snappy tune \u201cSpring Fever\u201d along with Elvis and the guys in a scene that cuts back and forth between them.\u00a0 As the na\u00efve friend who thinks boys prefer the brainy types, Lyn has a few amusing moments at the hotel when the manager threatens to evict the three girls for having a boy in the room even though they were only playing cards.\u00a0 Later on the beach Edgington feels uncomfortable and suggests to her friends that she feels like they are being stared at unaware that Gary Crosby is spying on them from a nearby sand dune.\u00a0 The gals later get drunk and wind up in the slammer when a melee breaks out at a club where Fabares decides to do a sloppy impromptu strip tease.<\/p>\n

The Loved One<\/em> (1965) was Lyn’s last film of the decade and was relegated to the small screen for the remainder of the decade with roles on Rawhide<\/em>,\u00a0Gunsmoke<\/em>,\u00a0Bonanza<\/em>, and three appearances on\u00a0The FBI. <\/em>In 1971, Lyn\u00a0<\/em>co-starred in the very popular Dirty Harry<\/em> (1971) where she reunited with Clint Eastwood playing a hard-boiled San Francisco detective who throws away the rule book in tracking a perverted psycho nicknamed the Scorpio Killer who has kidnapped and murdered a number of women chosen at random.\u00a0 As the wife of Eastwood\u2019s injured partner Reni Santoni, Lyn has a poignant scene where she confesses to Eastwood her insecurities of being married to a cop.\u00a0 She continued acting in minor parts on television until the late seventies and then retired to raise her family. She passed away in 2005.<\/p>\n

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The late Lyn Edgington was a pretty sandy blonde\u00a0with All-American girl-next-door appeal who specialized in playing fun-loving coeds on the big screen.\u00a0Lyn made her film debut playing a proud college coed who leads Sandra Dee and other students in a sit-in (\u201cBottoms always on the floor!\u201d) protesting book censorship in the comedy Take Her, She\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}