Bye Bye Birdie (film)

Bye Bye Birdie is a 1963 American musical comedy film from Columbia Pictures. It is a film adaptation of the stage production of the same name. The screenplay was adapted from Michael Stewarts book for the musical by Irving Brecher, with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams.

In 2006, the film was ranked numberon Entertainment Weeklys list of the 50 Best High School Movies.Conrad Birdie Jesse Pearson, a popular rock and roll star, receives an Army draft notice, devastating his teenage fans across the nation. Albert Peterson Dick Van Dyke is an unsuccessful songwriter, the family business, although he has a doctorate in biochemistry. He schemes with his secretary and longsuffering girlfriend Rosie DeLeon Janet Leigh to have Birdie sing a song Albert will write, but Birdies conscription puts a halt to the plan. Rosie, however, convinces Ed Sullivan to have Birdie sing a song Albert will write called One Last Kiss on The Ed Sullivan Show, and then kiss a randomly chosen high school girl goodbye before going off to the Army. Once that is a success, Albert will feel free to marry Rosie, despite his widowed, meddlesome mother Maes Maureen Stapleton long history of ensuring nothing will come between her and her beloved son. ........

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