The Love Bug
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Yes, Small Cars Can Be Lovable...middle-class Americans, not poor folks--loved the bug. There were even a couple of movies about a magical VW, including Herbie, The Love Bug and more recently Herbie, Fully Loaded. And in a Woody Allen movie (Sleeper), Woody, 200 years in... In this article: Mustang, Peugeot, Mitsubishi, Woody Allen, Toyota Prius, VW, Chrysler, and Dog |
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Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
The Love Bug
...Disney World's All-Star Movies Resort in Orlando, Florida, Herbie has been immortalized in the "Love Bug" buildings 6 and 7. The Love Bug was the highest-grossing film of 1969 . Jim Douglas is very short on cash after losing his car in...
In this article: Walt Disney Pictures, Volkswagen Beetle, and Volkswagen
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Wikipedia | October 21, 2009
The Love Bug (1997 film)
The Love Bug is made-for-television film starring Bruce Campbell and a sequel to the original The Love Bug film. The sequel included a Dean Jones cameo, tying it to the previous films. Also, this movie introduced an evil black Volkswagen...
In this article: Herbie Goes Bananas, Dean Jones, Gus, Nascar, DVD, Volkswagen, Disney, and Stephen King
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EW.com - PopWatch | October 19, 2009
'Black Lightning' trailer: A boy and his car fight Russian crime
...see any black people here: What I do see is a boy and his super-powered car righting wrongs and getting chicks. Kind of like Herbie the Love Bug meets Christine, with a wee bit of Transformers. A little research also reveals that Black...
In this article: Russian, Black Lightning, Timur Bekmambetov, Speed Racer, DC Comics, Chris Claremont, Boost Mobile, Love Bug, X-Men, and The Hunt for Red October
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Wired Top Stories | October 11, 2009
Tricked-Out Golf Carts Swarm Florida Communities
...doors, chrome-capped 12-inch wheels, and a sloping front end with tiny round headlamps. It looks like a sidekick for Herbie the Love Bug. If you ever wondered what the world would look like if we all ditched our cars, visit the Villages.
In this article: Florida, Alligator, Electric car, Hummer H3, Cadillac, Walmart, and Love Bug
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news-record | September 24, 2009
Jeri Rowe: Grande dame's beauty holds up well on screen
...to make generations laugh - and wish they owned a pearl-white VW Beetle with a brain. You know, Dean Jones. The actor from 1968's "The Love Bug. '' He's now 78 , and he's one of the stars of "Mandie and the Secret Tunnel. '' So is she.
In this article: Lois Leppard, North Carolina, DVD, VW Beetle, and Babe Ruth
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PR Newswire | September 09, 2009
The Ultimate Disney Fan Event Prepares to Greet Tens of Thousands of Visitors
...that will greet D23 EXPO guests. Among their tasks: Rolling in the actual Volkswagen Beetle that "played" the role of Herbie in The Love Bug and uncasing the costume worn by Michael Jackson as "Captain EO," which are part of the...
In this article: Disney, Walt Disney Imagineering, Anaheim Convention Center, Volkswagen Beetle, Twitter, Facebook, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Daily Progress | September 05, 2009
At Week's End: Give your car a hug, a smile
The "imagineers" of Herbie the Love Bug were really on to something. The Disney creation - that perky, personable and persistent character embodied in a Volkswagen "Bug" - is based on an engineering reality. The Beetle, or Bug, has a...
In this article: Beetle, The Disney, Vienna University, Volkswagen, Love Bug, Austria, and Associated Press
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Centre Daily Times | September 05, 2009
Your earliest flickering memories?
...we're talking about. In the summer of 1969, my head still spinning from the first season of "Laugh-In," I caught my fourth viewing of "The Love Bug," followed closely, in extreme preteen disorientation, by a trip to Milwaukee (from Racine,...
In this article: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Buster Keaton, Chicago, Cops, A.O. Scott, Maureen Arthur, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Doctor Dolittle, and The Great Race
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San Jose Mercury News | July 14, 2009
Sunnyvale shorts: Murphy Avenue sets stage for new jazz series
Families are invited to bring lawn chairs to the free event that rotates to a different fire station each week. July 15, Herbie the Love Bug at Station 4, 996 Wolfe Road We are pleased to let readers post comments about an article.
In this article: Love Bug
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Telegraph.co.uk - Motoring | February 03, 2009
Wheels On Film: The Love Bug
...the attention of the nefarious Thorndyke... In a nutshell: While it probably deserves its status as a bona fide childrens' classic, The Love Bug is something of a mixed bag for anyone over the age of its target demographic. The fact is,...
In this article: Volkswagen Beetle, David Tomlinson, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett, and Lilo & Stitch
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The Love Bug was the first (and most successful) in a series of movies made by Walt Disney Productions that starred a white Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie, a car with a mind of its own. It was based on a 1961 book Car, Boy, Girl by Gordon Buford. The movie follows the adventures of Herbie, his driver Jim Douglas (Dean Jones), and Jim's love interest, Carole Bennett (Michele Lee). It also featured Buddy Hackett as Jim's enlightened friend, Tennessee Steinmetz, who created 'art' from used car parts. English actor David Tomlinson portrayed the devilishly evil Peter Thorndyke, the owner of the auto showroom and multitime SCCA national champion
who sells Herbie to Jim and eventually becomes his racing rival. The movie itself inspired a franchise that is still popular even today. The movie also pushed along the Volkswagen Beetle craze called Beetlemania, as people began to identify with the strange, rounded car that seemed just a bit different from most vehicles on the road.
Four theatrical sequels followed: Herbie Rides Again, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Herbie Goes Bananas, and Herbie: Fully Loaded. A five-episode TV series, Herbie the Matchmaker, ran on CBS in the US in the spring of 1982. In 1997, there was a made-for-television sequel which included a Dean Jones cameo, tying it to the previous films. The latest sequel, Herbie: Fully Loaded, was released on June 22, 2005 by Walt Disney Pictures.
At Walt Disney World's All-Star Movies Resort in Orlando, Florida, Herbie has been immortalized in the "Love Bug" buildings 6 and 7.
The Love Bug was the highest-grossing film of 1969.
- Name:
- The Love Bug
- Directed By:
- Robert Stevenson
- Produced by:
- Bill Walsh
- Written By:
- Editor:
- Cotton Warburton
- Starring:
- Cinematography:
- Edward Colman
- Music By:
- George Bruns
- Distributed By:
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- Buena Vista
- Walt Disney Pictures
- Length:
- 108 minutes
- Language:
- English
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