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Bop Girl Goes Calypso

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Bop Girl Goes Calypso
Directed byHoward W. Koch
Written byArnold Belgard
Hendrik Vollaerts
Produced byAubrey Schenck
StarringJudy Tyler
Bobby Troup
Margo Woode
CinematographyCarl E. Guthrie
Edited bySam E. Waxman
Music byLes Baxter
Production
companies
Bel-Air Productions
Clark Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • July 1957 (1957-07)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Bop Girl Goes Calypso is a 1957 American United Artists film directed by Howard W. Koch and starring Judy Tyler.[1] It features calypso music by the Bobby Troup Trio and bassist Jim Aton.

Plot

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Working on a thesis, college student Bob Hilton performs research while predicting that calypso music will be the next craze, replacing rock and roll. When he and Professor Winthrop visit a nightclub where Jo Thomas is the featured singer, Jo mocks Bob's theory until he takes her to another club and piques her interest.

Bob's interest in music and in Jo is frustrating to Marion Hendricks, his impatient fiancée. Jo adds a calypso number to her repertoire, causing friction between the club's owner and Bob, resulting in a fight. But the audience's enthusiastic reaction to the song causes the nightclub to be renamed Club Trinidad with a new musical theme. Marion breaks up with Bob but attracts the romantic interest of the professor.

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957)". TCM. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
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