Shake, Rattle and Rock!
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Shake, Rattle and Rock (1956)
Jeff and Cheryl await the verdict on movies featuring Fats Domino in Shake, Rattle and Rock!
Story and Screenplay by Lou Rusoff
Produced by James H. Nicholson
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Starring:
Touch Connors as Garry Nelson
Lisa Gaye as June Fitzdingle
Sterling Holloway as Albert “Axe” McAllister
Fats Domino as himself
Joe Turner as himself
Choker Campbell as himself
Tommy Charles as himself
Annitta Ray as Annita, singing teen
Rosie and Carlos as teen dance contest winners
Additional Cast
Raymond Hatton as Horace Fitzdingle
Douglass Dumbrille as Eustace Fentwick III
Paul Dubov as Bugsy Smith
Clarence Kolb as Judge McCombs
Margaret Dumont as Georgianna Fitzdingle
Frank Jenks as Frank, TV program manager
Percy Helton as Hiram, the funeral director
Eddie Kafafian as Nick
Joe Devlin as squad car officer
Charles Evans as Bill Bentley
Pierre Watkin as Mr. Armstrong, the editor
Nancy Kilgas as Nancy
Jimmy Pickford as Eddie
Giovanna Fiorino as Helen
Leon Tyler as Aloysius Pentigrouch
Pat Gregory as Pat
Lou Arkoff as Dancer (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Luree Holmes as Dancer (uncredited)
Laura Nicholson as Dancer (uncredited)
Loretta Nicholson as Dancer (uncredited)
A Sunset Production
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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)
