1974
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When Dick Gautier, the original actor playing Conrad Birdie, fell ill, Pearson took the role of the rock idol inspired by Elvis Presley. He repeated his characterization in the 1963 film version, Bye Bye Birdie. [1] That same year (1963), he made two unsuccessful singles for RCA records. One of them, "One Last Kiss", was a song from the movie.
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Unknown to the public he won the title role as Presley-like singing idol Conrad Birdie in the popular musical film Bye Bye Birdie (1963). He was quite familiar with the role having taken over the part of Birdie from Broadway's Dick Gautier in the national road company.
Jesse Pearson plays the role of teen idol Conrad Birdie, whose character name is a word play on country singer Conway Twitty, who was himself a teen idol pop artist at that time. [4] The film was Van Dyke's feature film debut and helped make Ann-Margret a superstar during the mid-1960s.
Jesse was a young actor and singer from Oklahoma who was chosen for the part of Conrad Birdie in the national stage company of the hit musical Bye, Bye Birdie. The producers of the film liked Jesse's performance enough to cast him in the same role for the 1963 movie.
Conrad Birdie : [singing] There are chicks just ripe, for some kissin', And I mean to kiss me a few, Man, those chicks don't know, what they're missin', I got a lot of livin' to do...
Jesse Pearson plays the role of teen idol Conrad Birdie, whose character name is a word play on country singer Conway Twitty, who was himself a teen idol pop artist at that time. The film was Van Dyke's feature film debut and helped make Ann-Margret a superstar during the mid-1960s.
