"Mine was a kind of Cinderella story," says Pamela Tiffin. "I was discovered while visiting friends on the Paramount lot." An exquisite brunette, this former model became one of the early sixties' most popular actresses.

On working with Bobby Darin in State Fair (1962)
"While doing State Fair the one person I didn't understand was Bobby Darin. He played my romantic interest. He was a wonderful actor and singer. But at the time, I thought he was just a tough, cocky guy from New York. Mother was worried about his entourage - they were direct and flirtatious. She didn't want me near the music business crowd. I feel guilty because I decided I just didn't like Bobby Darin. Who in the world was I not to like him? He was friendly and I wasn't as friendly as I should have been."

On the film The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
"Making The Pleasure Seekers was strange. Nobody connected with anyone. When working people are very competitive or are only after money, it is agony to work with them because they bring their hang-ups to the set. I tried to make friends with Ann-Margret and Carol Lynley. But I think both of them at that time weren't interested in friendship with another woman. Carol was especially reserved and aloof. In retrospect, I recall that she just had a baby and therefore was entitled to be private."

Pretty, blonde Diane McBain excelled as the sophisticated bitch that never got her man in such films as Parrish, Claudelle Inglish, A Distant Trumpet, and Spinout. However, playing these parts had a down side for McBain. "These roles typed me almost forever as the bad girl," says Diane, disappointingly. "I wanted to play the ingenue.

On Parrish (1961) starring Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens
"Troy Donahue was just wonderful to work with. He is such a great guy. I guess Connie Stevens and I should have been rivals but we were friendly. At the time she was dating a friend of mine. Connie was very vocal around the Warner Bros. lot regarding things she didn't like that affected her career. I never was much for confrontation so I just did what they told me and tried to learn from the experience."

Actress Shelley Fabares truly transcends the decades. During the fifties she made movies with John Saxon and Natalie Wood and became a teen idol when she was cast as Mary Stone in the hit comedy series The Donna Reed Show. In the sixties, Shelley's popularity extended to the recording industry with a million-dollar selling record "Johnny Angel" and to the big screen with Ride the Wild Surf and as Elvis Presley's leading lady in Girl Happy, Spinout, and Clambake.

On Elvis Presley
"I've made it a policy to say just a few things about Elvis and how I felt about him. I've just always felt that since he never talked about himself when he was here it wouldn't be right for me to discuss him now. I will say that he was a wonderful person-kind, sweet, and funny. Doing those pictures with him were some of the happiest experiences I ever had professionally or personally. Even if the movies weren't great-they were okay and perfect for what they were at that time-the experience of doing them was extraordinary. And I feel blessed and lucky that I was able to work with him."

On her favorite working experience with Elvis
"One of the funniest experiences I ever had with Elvis-and believe me in retelling the story it's not that funny but when it was happening it was hysterical-was during Spinout. I played a spoiled rich girl and wanted Elvis to perform at my party. He came in and was singing to me. In this particular movie I wore a red pageboy wig. I was sitting on this chair very prim and prissy and Elvis was singing this very sweet love song to me on his knees in front of me. It was our second movie together and we had a lot of laughs behind us. Every time he said the word "please" it sort of popped and flipped up the ends of my hair just a bit. It was all we needed to burst out laughing. As he kept trying to re-do it he'd see my eyes start to twitch from trying to hold back the laughter and he'd crack up. It was just awful as we constantly kept making each other laugh. You'd see everybody on the set just looking daggers at you because time is money. It's a sweet, funny memory that I have."

With her waist-long honey brown hair and adorable smile, actress Salli Sachse appeared in every beach film (perhaps the most popular sixties drive-in movie) from Muscle Beach Party (1964) through The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) and everything else in between including Pajama Party (1964) and Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965).

On making beach movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello
"There was a time to be very business-like and there was a time to goof off. But we knew when the camera was running you had to do your thing. There was a lot of pressure sometimes because we were working against the weather or the sun or the budget. A lot of us were squeezed into these tiny changing rooms. We'd have these long hours on the beach where we would be waiting and waiting for our shot and everybody had to be ready. Frankie and Annette were very easy going and a pleasure to work with but they weren't real beach people. Frankie was raised in Philadelphia so I don't think he ever saw a surfboard in his life! And Annette refused to wear a bikini. She would only wear a one-piece but I think that had something to do with her contract with Walt Disney."