Girl Happy

Girl Happy
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBoris Sagal
Written by
Produced byJoe Pasternak
Starring
CinematographyPhilip H. Lathrop
Edited byRita Roland
Music byGeorge E. Stoll
Production
companies
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • March 12, 1965 (1965-03-12) (Alabama)[1]
  • April 14, 1965 (1965-04-14) (USA)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$3,250,000 (US/ Canada rentals)[2]

Girl Happy is a 1965 American musical romantic comedy and beach party film starring Elvis Presley in his eighteenth feature. The movie won a fourth-place prize Laurel Award in the category Top Musical of 1965. It featured the song "Puppet on a String", which reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, #3 on the Adult Contemporary chart and in Canada, and was certified Gold by the RIAA.

  1. ^ "Girl Happy - Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  2. ^ This figure consists of anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America. See "Big Rental Pictures of 1965", Variety, 5 January 1966 p 6 and Tom Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969, McFarland 2005, p193