Before It Was the Batmobile
“It Started With a Kiss” starred Debbie Reynolds, Glenn Ford, and the future Batmobile, a 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car. There was only one of the space age cars and it would eventually find its way to TV with a new paint job and some added accessories as Bruce Wayne’s groovy jalopy.
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The 1959 movie “It Started With a Kiss” also featured Eva Gabor, later of Green Acres, Harry Morgan, later of M*A*S*H, and Frances Bavier, later of The Andy Griffith Show. Glenn Ford plays a penniless Air Force sergeant in his forties who falls for a showgirl who dreams of falling into money. They get married and he is sent to Spain, just after having won a futuristic car in a raffle. Well, it gets even more ridiculous from there, but it must be better than it sounds, because it did well at the box office. And just like the rest of the supporting cast, the car ended up being most famous for its work in 1960s TV.
