Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)

Although she attends the conservative "Wyndham College for Girls," pretty Mary Ann Mobley (as Terry Taylor) is a swingin' sixties chick. She supports her education by writing hit songs, like "Help Stamp Out Men" (a million seller) and the sex-laced "Get Yourself a College Girl" (her latest). Co-ed Mobley and her groovy girlfriends have no trouble finding men and music to brighten their evenings, with groups like The Dave Clark Five and The Animals stopping by to perform for parties. Not bad, for 1966...The college board of trustees frowns on sexpot Mobley's suggestive lyrics, and behavior; and, they want to expel her. Mobley's supporters, like beautiful Joan O'Brien (as Marge Endicott) consider Mobley a modern day "Joan of Arc", and persuade the college to give her a second chance. Mobley promises to stay away from men; then, handsome young music publisher Chad Everett (as Gary Underwood) enters the picture. Mr. Everett wants to melt Mobley's male-deprived heart. Will he succeed? The mostly not-original, but contemporary, soundtrack is a strength, along with a good-looking cast. The song-synching is done very poorly, with Animal Eric Burdon looking typically lethargic. The opening credits top-bill the musical performers; but, Mobley and Everett are the stars, with Chris Noel (as Sue Ann) and Fabrizio Mioni (as Armand) offering sexy support. This is not, by any stretch, a great movie; but the cast relays a fun rapport - note Mobley and Everett knocking heads, on the slopes.***** Get Yourself a College Girl (11/9/64) Sidney Miller ~ Mary Ann Mobley, Chad Everett, Joan O'Brien

No kidding. Except for Stan Getz and jazz organist Jimmy Smith, this is one awful excuse for a movie. It's sexist, not sexy, it's base and insulting and ... well ... one of the great, if negative, cultural documents of the turbulent 1960s. It manages to encapsulate in a short series of badly staged, and nearly-meaningless scenes, almost everything that the '60s were really about, including the obnoxious political leaders then in power, the rampant dissatisfaction of young women with their exclusive, but all-female educational institutions, the commercialization of pop music, and the proclivity of certain Hollywood types to place beautiful young women in static combinations on a set, where they can actively leer at them with their film cameras rolling.It stinks. It makes a mockery of the soulfulness of the music of the era. It annoys most horribly when it could have entertained us at least a little bit.And worst yet, the basic story concept, of the internal conflict felt by a bright young woman who can write winning popular music, in an era still as stuffy as Mamie Eisenhower's tea parties ... was a most intriguing concept. And they got a young Nancy Sinatra to join the cast, too !! Why oh why did they not make the movie the real story of the heroine's dilemma ? Instead, it looks like a very long commercial for Decca Records and for the idea of skiing at Sun Valley.Yes, I watched this on Turner Classic Movies while waiting for the plumbers to come and fix a badly broken set of pipes. A big ol' tip of the cowboy hat to TCM for having the "chutzpah" to show this dog of a musical movie at all. Gotta love them for it. I wanna do lunch with their film archivists, truly .... But what a stinker of a film.My eyes still hurt.

As the song lyrics gush in the opening credits "Come on along and join the Swinging Set" as you watch this quite silly, but fun film about Terry (played by Mary Ann Mobley), a student at Wyndam College for Girls who writes songs under a pseudonym and already has her first hit single, a ditty called "Help Stamp Out Men!". When the college board finds out about her songs (with lyrics like "She knows all there is to know from A to Z about S - E - X") they want to expel her for bringing "scandal" to the school - so Terry and her gal pals agree to have "nothing to do with men" on their Christmas holiday ski vacation in Sun Valley. But, oh no, they are soon being chased around the resort by Terry's music publisher (Chad Everett) and a French artist who want her to pose for a publicity painting wearing nothing but guitar and baby doll nightie!Actresses wearing bikinis and shorty nightgowns who can *barely* act combined with fake-looking snow scene backdrops, poorly lip-synched song performances, and handsome, but oh so boring young Chad Everett makes this sound like a pretty bad movie - but that's all completely part of the campy, nostalgic, 60s fun here! Yes, this film is a bit of fluff, but quite enjoyable. It is full of swinging party scenes at places like the Go Go Club, with kids dancing the Swim and Watusi, and lots of great, live performances by such groups as The Animals and The Dave Clark Five, and one of my favorite parts of the movie, Stan Getz along with the jazzy, cool girl performance done by Astrud Gilberto singing "The Girl from Ipanema" . Worth seeing for the music alone.

This film was exactly what I expected with some fun mid-60's music. Mary Ann Mobley, who basically only made this type of film, is lovely as always as the songwriter college girl who in a fun way is somewhat of a pre-feminist. Chris Noel as Sue Ann, the beautiful blonde, who also specialized in 60's beach films is delightful, and Nancy Sinatra (although she doesn't sing) appears in one of her first films and looks so young. The men are nothing to speak of.Interesting musical groups including The Animals and The Dave Clarke Five make this better than some from this genre. Best performance = Chris Noel. Enjoyable, silly jokes, watusi dancing, and just fun stuff.