BLUE HAWAII
EDITED NOVEMBER 21, 1961
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
BLUE HAWAII, ELVIS’ BIGGEST BOX OFFICE SUCCESS
ELVIS PRESLEY as Chad Gates JOAN BLACKMAN as Maile Duval
ANGELA LANSBURY as Sarah Lee Gates
NANCY WALTERS as Abigail Prentice
ROLAND WINTERS as Fred Gates
JOHN ARCHER as Jack Kelman
HOWARD McNEAR as MR. Chapman
STEVE BRODIE as Tucker Garvey
DARLENE TOMPKINS as Patsy Simon
IRIS ADRIAN as Enid Garvey
HILO HATTIE as Waihila
JENNY MAXWELL as Ellie Corbett
PAMELA KIRK as Selena “Sandy” Emerson
CHRISTIAN KAY as Beverly Martin
LANI KAI as Carl Tanami
JOSE DE VEGA as Ernie Gordon
FRANK ATTIENCE as Ito O’Hara
TIKI HANALEI as Ping Pong
NORMAN TAUROG in Direction
HAL B. WALLIS in Production
HAL KANTER in Screenplay
ALLAN WEISS in Story
JOSEPH J. LILLEY in Music
CHARLES LANG, JR. in Photography
Genre: Musical comedy
Duration: 102 minutes
Premiere in the US: November 22, 1961
In his eighth Hollywood film, Elvis Presley plays Chad Gates, son of a family that owns a successful pineapple plantation business in Hawaii. After finishing his military service and returning to the ranks, his parents hope that he will continue in the family business; Instead Chad accepts a job as a tour guide where his girlfriend Maile (Joan Blackman) works, which leads to conflict with his parents, especially his mother, a role played by Angela Lansbury, who does not approve of his native friends and his mother. girlfriend Maile.
The consecration of the formula to make million-dollar box offices with Elvis films came thanks to this film.
The combination was masterful: Elvis, songs, beautiful girls and paradisiacal settings. A cocktail that caused Blue Hawaii to become one of the most economically successful film works of the singer’s entire career, in addition to providing an excellent soundtrack that would not only be one of the best-selling albums in Elvis’s career. Presley was also one of the best sellers in the entire decade of the sixties.
Highlight the participation in the film of the “rookie witch” Angela Lansbury, a true Hollywood legend in the role of Elvis’ mother, despite being only ten years older than Tupelo in real life.
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