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Blue Hawaii is a 1961 American musical romantic comedy drama film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Elvis Presley. The screenplay by Hal Kanter was nominated by the Writers Guild of America in 1962 in the category of Best Written American Musical. [ 3 ]
Blue Hawaii is the fourth soundtrack album by the American singer Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2426, on October 20, 1961. [6] It is the soundtrack to the 1961 film of the same name starring Presley.
Girls! is a 1962 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaii-based fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. " Return to Sender ", which reached No. 2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the film.
Maxwell is especially known for her role playing spoiled flirtatious teen-aged pretty blonde-haired schoolgirl "Ellie Corbett" on a chaperoned Hawaii vacation trip with her teacher Miss Abigail Prentiss and two other girls in Blue Hawaii (released November 1961), a typical example of producer / director Hal Wallis' (1898-1986) popular series of ...
Paradise, Hawaiian Style is a 1966 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley. It was the third and final motion picture that Presley filmed in Hawaii . The film reached #40 on the Variety weekly box office chart, earning $2.5 million in theaters.
In 1993, British reggae band UB40 covered the original 1961 Elvis Presley recording as the first single from their tenth album, Promises and Lies (1993). The song, renamed " (I Can't Help) Falling in Love with You ", was released on May 10, 1993 by Virgin Records , and eventually climbed to No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, staying there for ...
Gidget and T.J. Hooker actor James Darren died Monday, September 2, at the age of 88. Darren died in his sleep at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to a message on his website.
"Blue Hawaii" is a popular song written by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger for the 1937 Paramount Pictures film Waikiki Wedding, starring Bing Crosby and Shirley Ross. Crosby recorded a version with backing by Lani McIntyre and His Hawaiians, which was released in 1937 [ 2 ] as the B-side of " Sweet Leilani ".