{"id":3906,"date":"2016-09-17T02:58:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T02:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2016-09-17T02:58:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T02:58:49","slug":"beach-blanket-bingo-birthday-greetings-to-bobbi-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/17\/beach-blanket-bingo-birthday-greetings-to-bobbi-shaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Blanket Bingo! Birthday Greetings to Bobbi Shaw!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/abobbi.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3907\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3907\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/abobbi.jpg\" alt=\"abobbi\" width=\"236\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blonde bombshell Bobbi Shaw was known for her trademark saying, \u201cYah! Yah!\u201d clad in her trademark fur bikini in a series of American International Pictures beach party movies beginning with <em>Pajama Party<\/em> (1964) where she was the sexy foil to comedian Buster Keaton. She made such a huge impression and became an instant fan favorite that AIP paired her again with Keaton in <em>Beach Blanket Bingo<\/em> (1965) and <em>How to Stuff a Wild Bikini<\/em> (1965). The studio let her stretch her acting chops to great amusement in bigger roles in <em>Ski Party<\/em> (1965) as an amorous Swedish ski instructor and <em>The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini<\/em> (1966) as a conniving carnival worker. Once the tide rolled out for the beach movies, Shaw began doing improvisation and then teaching.<\/p>\n<p>More on Bobbi Shaw with my interview with her in my upcoming BearManor Media book <em><strong>Talking Sixties Drive-in Movies<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/jZmsiLU5YOw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Blonde bombshell Bobbi Shaw was known for her trademark saying, \u201cYah! Yah!\u201d clad in her trademark fur bikini in a series of American International Pictures beach party movies beginning with Pajama Party (1964) where she was the sexy foil to comedian Buster Keaton. She made such a huge impression and became an instant fan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","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\/3906","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=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}