Blue Hawaii (1961) on Netflix
Out of the Army, Chad Gates comes home to Hawaii and his girlfriend, Maile Duval. He takes a job as a tour guide rather than the fruit company his mother wants.
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Plot summary
Chad Gates comes out of the Army and returns to Hawaii, where he has his surfboard, his beach friends, and his girlfriend, Maile Duval. His mother, Sarah Lee, wants him to take over management at the family fruit company, but he takes a job as a tour guide at Maile's agency instead. His first clients are a schoolteacher, Abigail Prentice, and four teenage girls; one of them is Ellie Corbett.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blue Hawaii (1961)
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- The soundtrack featured Presley's hit song “Can't Help Falling in Love”, which by 4 March 2024 was the most streamed Elvis Presley song, with 836,193,249 streams on Spotify and more than 400 million YouTube streams on the Elvis Presley channel.
- Juliet Prowse, who had co-starred with Elvis Presley in GI Blues, was approached to reprise the love-interest role, but Paramount dropped her after her demands and cast Joan Blackman instead.
- Producer Hal B. Wallis used the box office returns from Blue Hawaii to finance his 1964 film Becket, starring Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole.
- Producer Hal B. Wallis thought Elvis Presley looked too pale before shooting began, so he personally recommended a particular brand of tanning lamp to darken the star's skin.
- Producer Hal B. Wallis warned the female stars of the film to stay away from the parties Elvis Presley hosted, because they were turning up for shooting looking tired.
- Elvis Presley relaxed during the shoot by giving karate demonstrations with his friend and employee Red West, which left his fingers bruised and swollen.
