At the drive-in 60 years ago

I guess I'm feeling a little trashy today. Here are a few ads featuring perfect examples of drive-in exploitation movies which were playing around the country in the fall of 1959, 60 years ago.

A double bill of High School Big Shot and T-Bird Gang. The lead in High School Big Shot, Tom Pittman, died in a car accident just two weeks after this film was released. T-Bird Gang had Ed Nelson (Peyton Place) and Vic Tayback (the diner owner in Alice) in supporting roles.

I love the title of Louisiana Hussy, which involves a woman seducing two brothers, one of whom is a newlywed. The Beatniks has Peter Breck from Big Valley in a supporting role.

Back in the summer, a Columbus drive-in was showing Because of Eve, one of those supposedly educational movies about childbirth, firsr released in 1948. The co-feature, Dangerous Age, was a 1957 teenage angst movie. A color ad appears below, highlighting the tastes of life and love (probably more like the taste of lipstick)