What Arlene Sullivan Was Really Hiding Behind Those Perfect Dance Steps
She received five hundred fan letters a week. She danced every weekday on national television. And for years, nobody — not the cameras, not the...
Bob Clayton and Justine Carrelli: American Bandstand’s Sweethearts — Did They Ever Marry?
For years, fans of American Bandstand asked the same question about Bob Clayton and Justine Carrelli. Nobody on screen ever answered it. What America Saw...
The Boy in the Reversed Sweater: Kenny Rossi’s Life After American Bandstand
Three hundred fan clubs. Nine failed singles. One successful company. One marriage that lasted forty years. This is what became of the most popular boy...
Beyond the Dance Floor: The Life Kenny Rossi Built After the Cameras Turned Away
America’s favorite teenager. Off screen, he was beaten on the streets, dropped by every label, and told to go home. What happened after that is...
When the Music Stopped: Pat Molittieri’s Journey Beyond American Bandstand
A Saturday Afternoon in Southwest Philadelphia In the autumn of 1957, the living rooms of America had acquired a new kind of furniture — not...
American Bandstand’s Pat Molittieri: The Girl Who Invented a Dance and Paid Everything for It
For two years, Pat Molittieri danced on American Bandstand and a nation watched. Then she dared to own her own name — and that was...
Justine Carrelli: The American Bandstand Dancer Whose Image Outlasted the Spotlight
She used her sister’s birth certificate to get into Studio B at age twelve. Decades later, a stranger who had watched her dance on television...