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Blue Hawaii is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Michael Moore released in USA on 22 november 1961 with Elvis Presley
Blue Hawaii (1961)
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Add to a movie listBlue Hawaii is a 1961 American musical romantic comedy film set in the state of Hawaii 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. The movie opened at no. 2 in box office receipts for that week and despite mixed reviews from critics, finished as the 10th top-grossing movie of 1961 and 14th for 1962 on the Variety national box office survey, earning $5 million. The film won a fourth place prize Laurel Award in the category of Top Musical of 1961.
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Chadwick Gates (Elvis Presley) has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surfboard, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend Maile Duval (Joan Blackman). His mother, Sarah Lee (Angela Lansbury), wants him to follow in his father's footsteps and take over management at the Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Company, the family business, but Chad is reluctant, so he goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.Actors
Elvis Presley
(Chad Gates)
Joan Blackman
(Maile Duval)
Angela Lansbury
(Sarah Lee Gates)
Roland Winters
(Fred Gates)
John Archer
(Jack Kelman)
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