Official Tiki Oasis 2012 thread for TO12 - California Events

J JOHN-O Tiki Socialite Dogtown, USA Joined: May 16, 2008 Posts: 2721	J JOHN-O Posted posted on Tue, Jul 31, 2012 12:32 PM THIS is Tiki... OK in earlier posts I made the Tiki/Spy arguments that: Honey West was an undercover Tiki detective. Tiki Revival art icon Tura Satana was both Spy and Burlesque. The Man (and Girl) from UNCLE had more "Tiki" than James Bond. Here’s yet another Tiki/Spy connection... 1960’s Poly Pop icon Ginger Grant… Was a Spy !! Oh sure there was the Gilligan’s Island dream episode where she played a double agent attempting to knock off Agent 0014 ("Twice as smart as 007") with a poisoned kiss... But even before that fateful 3-hour tour, Miss Grant was "spying" and not just once but twice !! In 1961’s “Armored Command” she was a sexy spy infiltrating a U.S. army troop station (left), and again in 1964’s “Fanfare for a Death Scene” (right)… "Fanfare..", an NBC Kraft Suspense Theater episode, was especially Poly Pop significant in that it also featured Exotica girl Sandy Warner and Steve McGarrett’s soon-to-be arch nemesis Wo Fat (Khigh Dheigh). After getting off Gilligan’s Island, Ginger reestablished her career and continued in the spy genre. Unfortunately she never got to be a Bond Girl but she was cast as a Matt Helm Girl in 1969’s “The Wrecking Crew”… Another of her films that had a quasi spy sub-plot was the "Belly Dancers of Bali Bali". That movie was never released to the home market and the original production company has long since been out of business. :D If you come to Tiki Oasis however you can hear the Ding Dong Devils pay homage to that "lost" film in a song of the same name. We hope to see you there !!...

THIS is Tiki...

OK in earlier posts I made the Tiki/Spy arguments that:

Honey West was an undercover Tiki detective.
Tiki Revival art icon Tura Satana was both Spy and Burlesque.
The Man (and Girl) from UNCLE had more "Tiki" than James Bond.

Here’s yet another Tiki/Spy connection...

1960’s Poly Pop icon Ginger Grant…

Was a Spy !!

Oh sure there was the Gilligan’s Island dream episode where she played a double agent attempting to knock off Agent 0014 ("Twice as smart as 007") with a poisoned kiss...

But even before that fateful 3-hour tour, Miss Grant was "spying" and not just once but twice !!

In 1961’s “Armored Command” she was a sexy spy infiltrating a U.S. army troop station (left), and again in 1964’s “Fanfare for a Death Scene” (right)…

"Fanfare..", an NBC Kraft Suspense Theater episode, was especially Poly Pop significant in that it also featured Exotica girl Sandy Warner and Steve McGarrett’s soon-to-be arch nemesis Wo Fat (Khigh Dheigh).

After getting off Gilligan’s Island, Ginger reestablished her career and continued in the spy genre. Unfortunately she never got to be a Bond Girl but she was cast as a Matt Helm Girl in 1969’s “The Wrecking Crew”…

Another of her films that had a quasi spy sub-plot was the "Belly Dancers of Bali Bali". That movie was never released to the home market and the original production company has long since been out of business. :D

If you come to Tiki Oasis however you can hear the Ding Dong Devils pay homage to that "lost" film in a song of the same name. We hope to see you there !!...

Post #646323 by JOHN-O on Tue, Jul 31, 2012 12:32 PM