{"id":2212,"date":"2023-09-18T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2023-09-24T08:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T08:52:42","slug":"happy-83rd-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-frankie-avalon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/09\/happy-83rd-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-frankie-avalon\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 83rd Birthday to CDF alumnus Frankie Avalon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Born: September 18, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Francis Thomas Avallone, an Italian American actor, singer, musician, and former teen idol; may be remembered best for his starring roles in the wildly successful &#8216;Beach Party&#8217; film series, or as the Teen Angel who sang the hit &#8216;Beauty School Dropout&#8217;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>in &#8220;Grease&#8221;, but it was his stunning performances in 1967\u2019s THE MILLION EYES OF SUMURU and 1969&#8217;s HORROR HOUSE which earns Mr. Avalon&#8217;s inclusion among the highly esteemed CDF Alumni.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-380\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Frankie-Avalon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Frankie Avalon photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Frankie-Avalon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Frankie-Avalon_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Frankie-Avalon_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Frankie-Avalon_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Frankie-Avalon_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born: September 18, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Francis Thomas Avallone, an Italian American actor, singer, musician, and former teen idol; may be remembered best for his starring roles in the wildly successful &#8216;Beach Party&#8217; film series, or as the Teen Angel who sang the hit &#8216;Beauty School Dropout&#8217;\u00a0 in &#8220;Grease&#8221;, but it was his stunning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,15,7,5,6,115,9,116,117,118],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-frankieavalon","tag-horror","tag-horrorhouse","tag-millioneyesofsumuru","tag-teenidol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Frankie-Avalon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}