Friday, June 24, 2011

Disneyrewind - June 24, 1977 Disney's Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo is released in theaters

Disneyrewind - June 24, 1977 Disney's Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo is released in theaters


Disney's Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, starring Dean Jones and Don Knotts, is the third in the series of Herbie films.  Don Knotts has taken the place of Buddy Hacket as chief mechanic.  Next time you watch the series see if you can tell that the music is now done by Frank De Vol instead of George Bruns in this film.



But that's not all that happened today in relation to this movie series.  On June 24th 1942 Actress Michele Lee - Miss Carole Bennett in Disney's The Love Bug - is born in Los Angeles, California.



The Love bug was released as a Christmas movie on December 24th 1968.



Herbie Rides again begins the Summer releases of the Herbie 4 film series as it was released June 6, 1974.



June 25, 1980 Herbie Goes Bananas is released to theaters, the 4th movie in the Volkswagen loving series. This movie stars Cloris Leachman & Harvey Korman.  This movie is notable for Paco calling Herbie Ocho, spanish for 8 which is the sum of the numbers on Herbie's doors.



Also on June 24, 2005 Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded hits the big screen. This one stars Lindsay Lohan and is better then ever.

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