{"id":3913,"date":"2016-09-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2016-09-20T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T04:00:00","slug":"happy-birthday-60s-starlet-mary-mitchel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/20\/happy-birthday-60s-starlet-mary-mitchel\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday 60s Starlet Mary Mitchel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/amary.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3914\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3914\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/amary.jpg\" alt=\"amary\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>Pretty Mary Mitchel resembled and sounded a lot like Connie Stevens.\u00a0 But Mitchel was more appealing and less annoying than her famous counterpart as she played the ingenue in various low-budget drive-in movies during the early to middle \u201860s.\u00a0 She danced in the rock-and-roll musical <em>Twist Around the Clock<\/em> (1961) and screamed her way through <em>Panic in Year Zero<\/em> (1962), and the cult horror movies\u00a0<em>Dementia 13<\/em> (1963) and <em>Spider Baby<\/em> (1964).\u00a0 In 1965, she hit the beach for typical teenage shenanigans in <em>A Swingin\u2019 Summer<\/em>\u00a0with William Wellman Jr. and Quinn O&#8217;Hara, and <em>The Girls on the Beach <\/em>with Martin West, Aron Kincaid, and Gail Gerber. During this period she was married to actor\/producer Bart Patton. She retired from acting in 1968 to work behind the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Mary Mitchel in my book <em><strong>Drive-in Dream Girls<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty Mary Mitchel resembled and sounded a lot like Connie Stevens.\u00a0 But Mitchel was more appealing and less annoying than her famous counterpart as she played the ingenue in various low-budget drive-in movies during the early to middle \u201860s.\u00a0 She danced in the rock-and-roll musical Twist Around the Clock (1961) and screamed her way through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3913","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\/3913","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=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}