Love in a Goldfish Bowl
5.6 /10 1 Votes
Director Jack Sher Story by Jack Sher Duration Language English | 5.4/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Musical Producer Dick Shepherd Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 1961 (1961-06) Based on a story by Irene Kamp
Jack Sher Writer Jack Sher (screenplay), Irene Kamp (story), Jack Sher (story) Cast Tommy Sands (Gordon Slide), Fabian (Guiseppi La Barba), Jan Sterling (Sandra Slide)Similar movies Joe Butterfly (1957) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Love in a goldfish bowl tommy sands
A Coast Guardsman (Fabian) joins two college students (Tommy Sands, Toby Michaels) platonically sharing a beach house.
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Love in a Goldfish Bowl is a 1961 teen film directed by Jack Sher starring singing idols Tommy Sands and Fabian.
Two platonic college friends spend a weekend away together. One is romanced by a member of the coast guard.
Plot
Gordon Slide and Blythe Holloway are two platonic best friends at a college, both from single parent families. They are so devoted to each other that the headmaster of the school is considering banning them from seeing each other.
Gordon decides to spend the Easter holiday at his mothers beach pad. Blythe accompanies him, with Gordon impersonating the college headmaster on the phone to Blythes senator father, so that Blythe gets permission.
Gordon and Blythe settle into a domestic routine. One day they take Gordons yacht out and get caught in a storm, and the Coast Guard have to rescue them. One of the Coast Guard, Giuseppe, falls for Blythe, which provokes feelings of jealousy in Gordon.
Matters come to a head when Gordon and Blythe have a party. Giuseppe brings along a "fast" girl to set up with Gordon so he can be with Blythe. However this causes Blythe to be jealous. When Giuseppe makes a move on Blythe, she resists. Then another man, a drunken sailor, tries to molest Blythe, but Gordon rescues her.
Gordon and Blythe kiss - only to be busted by his socialite mother and Blythes father. Everyone has a talk and Gordons mother and Blythes father realise how much they have been neglecting their children; they vow to do better. Blythe tells an apologetic Giuseppe that she will continue to write to him.
Blythe and Gordon return to college, now a couple, although the old routines of their relationship are still in play.
Cast
Production
The film was originally known as Beach Pad. It was based on an original script by Jack Sher and Irene Kamp, who had worked on Paris Blues together; they sold it to Martin Jurow and Richard Shepherd, the producers of Breakfast at Tiffanys, who had a deal at Paramount.
Shooting started in November 1960 and took place in Hollywood and on location in Balboa.
Fabian and Tommy Sands were both pop stars at the time and both sing in the film. Sands hair was dyed blonde to differentiate him from Fabian. Sands later said this was "a big mistake. It looked so phony. Fans who knew me knew that was phony."
Songs
Similar Movies
Joe Butterfly (1957). Jack Sher directed Love in a Goldfish Bowl and wrote the screenplay for Walk the Proud Land. Jack Sher directed Love in a Goldfish Bowl and wrote the screenplay for Shane. Critics Choice (1963). Jack Sher directed Love in a Goldfish Bowl and wrote the screenplay for World in My Corner.
Reception
The New York Times called the film "vapid and transparent" but that at least it "made no pretenses".
Producer Martin Jurow later said the film "didnt come off very well."
A novelisation of the script was issued in 1961.
References
Love in a Goldfish Bowl WikipediaLove in a Goldfish Bowl IMDb Love in a Goldfish Bowl themoviedb.org