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Bye bye Birdie

Rock star/teenage heartthrob Conrad Birdie gets drafted and his manager faces unemployment so his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl will win a goodbye kiss from Birdie.

Corporate Author: Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm), Columbia Pictures.
Other Authors: George, Sidney., Brecher, Irving, 1914-, Leigh, Janet., Van Dyke, Dick., Ann-Margret, 1941-, Strouse, Charles.
Format: Videos DVD
Language: English
Published: Burbank, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1999], p1963.
Edition: Widescreen & full screen ed.
Subjects:
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Musical films.
Feature films.
Summary: Rock star/teenage heartthrob Conrad Birdie gets drafted and his manager faces unemployment so his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl will win a goodbye kiss from Birdie.
Item Description: Based on the musical by Michael Stewart.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Includes interactive menus, talent and filmographies, scene selections, theatrical trailer, production notes.
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: DVD, Dolby surround stereo, digitally remastered.
Audience: MPAA rating: Not rated.
Production Credits: Photography, Joseph Biron; musical director, Johnny Green; music and lyrics, Charles Strouse, Lee Adams.
ISBN: 0767827651
Author Notes: Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke on December 13, 1925 in West Plains, Missouri. He is best known for portraying Rob Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke show from 1961-1966. This show received four Emmy Awards as Outstanding Comedy Series and Van Dyke won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Van Dyke also starred on the Broadway stage in Bye Bye Birdie and The Music Man. He won the Best Actor Tony in 1961 for Bye Bye Birdie. He also starred in two classic children's movies, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Van Dyke is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke and the grandfather of actor Shane Van Dyke. He is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. His memoir, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business, was was written in 2011. In 2014 this memoir was on the New York Times bestseller list.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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