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George Carlin's first closeup

The above is from the opening credits of the 1968 Doris Day movie, With Six You Get Eggroll, which was George Carlin's film debut. He played a drive-in carhop named Herbie Fleck, whose main role was to make the most of his lame dialogue and provide the only half-assed laughs in the entire movie. Here he is in his first closeup, putting the moves on Doris (who, in real life, would have been 15 years older than George).

It's the only movie appearance of Carlin from his "Hippy-Dippy Weatherman" days, and he didn't make another film until Car Wash eight years later.

But a young, clean-cut George Carlin isn't the only surprise this late '60s clunker has to offer us today-- how about a closeup of Creed Bratton of The Grass Roots!