Trivia / Beach Blanket Bingo

• Cut Song: Dee Dee's "I'll Never Change Him" was dropped from the theatrical release, but restored in some TV airings.
• The Danza: Frankie Avalon as Frankie.
• Dawson Casting: Lampshaded by Big Drop during his "roast" of Frankie at the nightclub: "You're 43, Frank! You're old and wrinkled!" (Frankie Avalon was actually 24 when he played the teen-age Frankie.)
• Deleted Scene:
  • After Frankie finishes his skydive, the following three sequences...
    • Bonehead asks Frankie and Dee Dee if they can double date with him and Lorelei.
    • Bonehead shopping for Lorelai's clothes, and getting hit on by a Dirty Old Woman working there.
    • Frankie and Dee Dee walk by the shop and see Bonehead with his arms around the saleswoman, and assume she's his date.
• Money, Dear Boy: Mickey Rooney took a small role to pay off some tax debts.
• Non-Singing Voice: Robin Ward sings for Linda Evans.
• Orphaned Reference: As the Hondells are performing "The Cycle Set", Frankie and Dee Dee arrive with Bonehead and Lorelei. The two couples had met up in a deleted scene, and drove together in a Cut Song "A Surfer's Life For Me".
• Playing Against Type: John Ashley typically played Frankie's best friend in all the previous beach movies. Here, he plays the skydiving instructor Steve, and he and Frankie are either strangers or rivals. Diabolique magazine said...
  "You really notice the entries where the lead male isn’t good friends with Ashley – in Beach Blanket Bingo it’s downright stressful to see him and Avalon as strangers."
• Real-Life Relative: John Ashley (Steve) and Deborah Walley (Bonnie) were husband and wife.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Tommy Kirk was announced as the male lead, but was dropped from the film after being found with marijuana.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: The character Deadhead from the previous three movies is now called Bonehead, as AIP had decided to cast Frankie Avalon in the film Sergeant Deadhead and didn't want to confuse the two.
• Stunt Casting: Donna Michelle - who was Playboy's 'Playmate of the Year' for 1964 - is cast as Animal.
• Throw It In!: When Don Rickles is performing his comedy routine, Buster Keaton is in the background and can be seen not laughing. This is because he didn't find the comedy funny and didn't realise he was visible in the shot.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Elsa Lanchester was announced as having a small role, but doesn't appear in the final film.
  • Sugar Kane was written for Nancy Sinatra. But because the role involved an attempted kidnapping, and her brother had been the victim of one a few months previously, she felt uncomfortable and dropped out.

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