In 1962, Freeman was cast as Marilyn Hayes in the doom and gloom classic film, Panic in Year Zero! alongside veteran film stars Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, and singer teenage heart-throb Frankie Avalon.
In 1987, she directed her first full-length feature film entitled Back to the Beach starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.
Avalon | Frankie Howerd | Frankie Laine | Frankie Boyle | Frankie Goes to Hollywood | Frankie Knuckles | Frankie J | Frankie Valli | Avalon (band) | Frankie Sandford | Frankie Muniz | Frankie Edgar | Frankie Cutlass | Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune | Frankie Negrón | Frankie Frisch | Frankie Avalon | Avalon Hill | Avalon, California | Frankie Sheahan | Frankie Ruiz | Frankie Randall | Frankie Miller | Frankie Fraser | Frankie | Frankie Yankovic | Frankie Paul | Frankie Kao | Frankie Dean | Frankie & Benny's |
Its first hit was "With All My Heart" sung by Jodie Sands (1957), but the major artists the label was famous for were Frankie Avalon and Fabian Forte, and later Claudine Clark.
The song was originally published in 1933 and since then, there have been many covers of the song, including Henry Hall's 1933 cover and a version by Frankie Avalon for the 1960 album Summer Scene.
Van Artsdalen received onscreen credit in one of William Asher's "surfploitation" comedies, Muscle Beach Party, starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.