Ski Party is a 1965 American teen musical comedy film directed by Alan Rafkin and starring Frankie Avalon and Dwayne Hickman.

Once at the rustic ski resort, Todd and Craig pose as frumpy, non-threatening, young English women, Jane and Nora.

When not interrupted by a mysterious ice-skating, yodeling polar bear or toying with psychologically imbalanced and lederhosen-clad lodge manager Mr. Pevney (Robert Q. Lewis), they observe the women in their group to learn how they have gone wrong.

To make Linda jealous, Todd attracts the attention of gorgeous, curvy Swedish ski instructor Nita (Bobbi Shaw) when he's dressed as himself.

Todd crawls through miles of deep snow late at night with his broken leg covered in a plaster cast, to Nita's house.

Toting a bottle, he learns that Nita is not the exotic minx she pretends to be, but aspires to be treated like an "American girl", that is, with much "talk" and little "action".

[8] In March 1965, one week into filming, AIP were so happy with the rushes that they announced Kaufman, Corman and Rafkin would make Cruise Party immediately.

[10] Hickman said making the film "was a totally enjoyable experience",[11] and AIP offered him a lead role in How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.

[12] Ski Party is punctuated with musical numbers by Lesley Gore, who sings Marvin Hamlisch's "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" on the bus, and James Brown & The Famous Flames (Bobby Byrd, Lloyd Stallworth, and Bobby Bennett) who sing and shimmy through "I Got You (I Feel Good)" in the lodge, having been humorously cast as the "white bread" resort's all-black ski patrol.

(In the bio-pic Get On Up, the scene from Ski Party is re-created, with Brown's bemoaning that he is splitting his pants "in front of all these white folks".)

[13] Variety called it "an entertaining teenage comedy romance in snowcountry settings, with excellent direction of good satirical script ad fine performances by young thesps.

"[14] Filmink wrote "There’s lots of fun in Ski Party, as well as the inevitable dodginess from a 1965 Hollywood movie about the differences between men and women.