Bye Bye Birdie Articles

Bobby Rydell, Ann-Margret, Bye Bye Birdie Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret: Restored BYE BYE BIRDIE Academy Screening Ann-Margret was a sensation at the 1962 Academy Awards ceremony while performing the nominated song "Bachelor in Paradise." The following year, she became a star with the release of George Sidney's musical Bye Bye Birdie. Looking at the picture above (click on the photo to enlarge it), [...]

Bye Bye Birdie lobby card (top); Bobby Rydell, Ann-Margret, Bye Bye Birdie (bottom) A digitally restored print of George Sidney's 1963 Elvis Presley-inspired satirical musical Bye Bye Birdie, starring Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Bobby Rydell, Maureen Stapleton, Jesse Pearson, and an explosive Ann-Margret, will have its premiere on Wednesday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel [...]

Janet Leigh, Psycho Janet Leigh, whose shower scene in Psycho has become part of cinema's pop iconography, died yesterday, Oct. 3, at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 77. In the past year, Leigh had been suffering from vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels. Though best remembered as the greedy (and unlucky) office worker who gets stabbed a zillion times in the shower [...]