Beach Party
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Dick Clark doesn’t appear in any of tonight’s movies on TCM’s “Spring Break” lineup, but he’s here in spirit, since the movies are loaded with the same performers, and peppy attitudes, that marked his American Bandstand days. This 1963 movie, the first in a series of sun-and-fun, music-and-dance frolics aimed squarely at the teen market, stars Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Avalon makes Justin Bieber look sloppy and surly, and Funicello – well, this is where the former star of The Mickey Mouse Club outgrew, and shed, those Mouseket-ears. Co-stars include – ready? – Robert Cummings, Morey Amsterdam… and Vincent Price.