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Pagan Love Song is a 1950 American romantic musical film released by MGM and starring Esther Williams and Howard Keel. Set in Tahiti , it was based on the novel Tahiti Landfall by William S. Stone. It was the first major role for Rita Moreno (then 19) and her third film overall.
Charcoal study, c. 1891–3, Art Institute of Chicago [28] The inscription below the idol reads "MERAHI METUA NO | TEHAMANA". [1] This means "Teha'amana has many parents", a reference to Teha'amana possessing foster parents as well as her natural parents in accordance with the faʼaʼamu [] Tahitian custom (Gauguin had to negotiate with both sets of parents when arranging the marriage). [29]
Le Mariage de Loti (1880; also known as The Marriage of Loti, Rarahu, or Tahiti) is an autobiographical novel by French author Pierre Loti. It was Loti's second novel and the first to win him great fame and a wide following. It describes Loti's romantic liaison with an exotic Tahitian girl named Rarahu. It is the basis of two operas
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The Pagan is a 1929 synchronized sound romantic drama filmed in Tahiti and produced and distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
Sacred Heart Church in Taravao (Église du Sacré-Coeur de Taravao), Tahiti Queen Pōmare IV expelled French Catholic missionaries from her kingdom in 1836 and provoked the annoyance of France. Between 1838 and 1842, French naval commander Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars responded to French complaints and forced the queen and Tahitian chiefs to ...
Trouble in Tahiti is the story of one day in the life of these desperately unhappy, though married people, lonely, longing for love, and unable to communicate. At the end of the opera, Sam and Dinah show a willingness to sacrifice for each other, out of commitment to the marriage, though there's not much pleasure to be had.