Phillipa Fallon was a 1950s actress singer and actress most noted for her appearance in the film High School Confidential (1958), reciting the Cold War-themed beat poem "High School Drag", written by B-movie actor and writer Mel Welles, recruited by producer Albert Zugsmith to ensure the film's slang was believable because, as Welles recalled for interviewer Tom Weaver in 1988, “I was an expert on grass in my day…” Her performance is accompanied on piano by Jackie Coogan.
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Phillipa Fallon was a 1950s actress singer and actress most noted for her appearance in the film High School Confidential (1958), reciting the Cold War-themed beat poem "High School Drag", written by B-movie actor and writer Mel Welles, recruited by producer Albert Zugsmith to ensure the film's slang was believable because, as Welles recalled for interviewer Tom Weaver in 1988, “I was an expert on grass in my day…” Her performance is accompanied on piano by Jackie Coogan. As a movie actress Fallon had minor roles in two other films, 1957's Confidential: The Girl in the Kremlin 1957) and The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960) She also worked as a singer for the NBC television network in 1956. Little else is known about Phillipa Fallon, and attempts to trace her have been fruitless.
