Waikiki Wedding
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Waikiki Wedding |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Frank Tuttle |
| script | Frank Butler |
| production | Arthur Hornblow Junior |
| music | Leo Shuken |
| camera | Karl Struss |
| cut | Paul Weatherwax |
| occupation | |
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Waikiki Wedding is an American musical comedy from 1937. Directed by Frank Tuttle . The title refers to Waikīkī , a district of Honolulu .
action
Tony Marvin is an advertising executive who works for a pineapple company in Hawaii. The company has a beauty pageant and the winner, Georgia, has to be looked after by Tony. He shows Georgia and her cheeky friend Myrtle the island of Oahu . Unfortunately for Tony, Georgia finds Hawaii boring and wants to fly back to the mainland. The advertising specialist prevents this project with sometimes drastic, sometimes romantic ideas.
background
The film sparked a Hawaiian boom on the American mainland. Although Waikiki Wedding was filmed for the most part in the Paramount Pictures studios in Los Angeles and only a few shots of Oʻahu could be seen in the final cut, the Americans turned their attention increasingly to Hawaii in the late 1930s . The song Sweet Leilani became Bing Crosby's first release, selling over a million copies. Another song from the soundtrack, Blue Hawaii , sung by Bing Crosby , became a hit in 1961 as interpreted by Elvis Presley in the film of the same name .
Waikiki Wedding was one of the first films for the costume designer Edith Head , who later won several Oscar awards , as well as for the actor Anthony Quinn , who plays the Hawaiian Kimo in a supporting role here .
Awards
The song Sweet Leilani by Harry Owens , sung in the film by Bing Crosby, was at the Academy Awards 1938 as " Best Song Award". In addition, the choreographer LeRoy Prinz was nominated for “ Best Dance Director ”, but the award went to Ein Fräulein in Nöten .
Web links
- Waikiki Wedding in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Waikiki Wedding on New York Times Movie, accessed January 6, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The scenes shot in Hawaii only show this island, cf. Kristin Lawler: The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism. Routledge, 2010, ISBN 9781136879845 , p. 51
- ^ Kristin Lawler: Radical: The image of the surfer and the politics of popular culture , University of New York, 2008; Pp. 117 and 120. here online at books.google, accessed on January 6, 2012.