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The film was directed by Janice Karman and written by Karman and Ross Bagdasarian Jr.. The plot follows the Chipmunks and the Chipettes as they go on a hot air balloon race around the world while their guardian David is out on a trip, not knowing that it is a cover for a diamond smuggling ring.
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Ross Bagdasarian: Relatives: William Saroyan (first cousin...
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Ross Bagdasarian Jr., the son of Alvin and the Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian Sr. who revived the franchise after his father's death in 1972, dreamed of making a live-action film since 1997, "and the dream has had many nightmare moments."
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Bagdasarian[a] was born on January 27, 1919, in Fresno, California to an Armenian-American family. His father was a grape-grower. He had two elder brothers: Richard Sirak (1910–1966) and Harry Sisvan (1915–1989). The novelist William Saroyan, with whom he was very close, was his first cousin. Bagdasarian graduated from Fresno High School in 1937. H...
Acting
Bagdasarian's Broadway debut was in 1939 when he played the newsboy in The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan, his cousin. He also appeared in minor roles in several films, such as Viva Zapata! (1952), Stalag 17 (1953), Destination Gobi (1953), Rear Window (1954), and The Proud and Profane (1956). Notably, in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, he is the lonely composer at the piano,. In Stalag 17, he sings "I Love You" in a pivotal scene at the POW Christmas Party.
Singing and songwriting
Bagdasarian's major success with songwriting came with "Come On-a My House". The song was rejected by many record companies as being "too ethnic", until Mitch Miller of Columbia Records came across the song, liked it and persuaded Rosemary Clooney to record it. The song was originally recorded by Kay Armen in 1950, but the version recorded by Rosemary Clooney in 1951 turned into a million-selling hit. It is an adaptation of an Armenian folk song Bagdasarian wrote with his cousin William Saroy...
Bagdasarian married Armenouhi "Armen" Kulhanjian (1927–1991) in 1946.[b] They had three children: Carol Askine (b. 1947), an actress; Ross Jr. (b. 1949); and Adam Serak (b. 1954), a fiction writer. They lived in Los Angeles from 1950. As of 1963 he owned a grape ranch in California called the Chipmunk Ranch. In the mid-1960s, he bought Sierra Wine ...
Bagdasarian died of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills on January 16, 1972, eleven days before his 53rd birthday. He was cremated and inurned at the Chapel of the Pines Crematoryin Los Angeles. Bagdasarian willed the Chipmunks franchise to his wife and three children. Ross Jr. said in an interview that he "worshipped" his father and felt a...
Albums
1. The Music of David Seville(1957 Liberty 3073) 2. The Witch Doctor Presents: David Seville...and his Friends(1958 Liberty 3092) 3. Let's All Sing with the Chipmunks(1959 Liberty 3132) 4. The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits(1964 Sunset/Liberty; as Alvin and the Chipmunks with David Seville) 5. Chipmunks à Go-Go(1965 Liberty 3424; as Alvin, Simon and Theodore with David Seville) 6. The Mixed-up World of Bagdasarian(1966 Liberty 7451; recorded under David Seville's real name, Ross Bagdasarian)...
Arnold, Mark (2019). Aaaaalllviiinnn!: The Story of Ross Bagdasarian Sr., Liberty Records, Format Films and The Alvin Show. BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1-62933-432-5.
Ross Bagdasarian at IMDbRoss Bagdasarian at AllMovieRoss Bagdasarian at the Internet Broadway DatabaseRoss Bagdasarian, Jr. (May 6, 1949) is an American film producer, record producer, singer, and voice artist and the son of the Alvin and the Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. He is also the co-creator of The Chipettes.
The Chipmunk Adventure: Directed by Janice Karman. With Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Janice Karman, Dody Goodman, Susan Tyrrell. The Chipmunks compete with the Chipettes in a round-the-world race.
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- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Janice Karman
- 1987-05-22
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. was born on 25 October 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Alvin & the Chipmunks (1983), The Chipmunk Adventure (1987) and Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007).
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Ross Bagdasarian Jr. was born on October 25, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Ross Dickran Bagdasarian. He is an actor and producer, known for Alvinnn!!! And the Chipmunks (2015), Alvin & the Chipmunks (1983) and A Chipmunk Christmas (1981).
