
Blue Hawaii
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Initial release | USA |
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Directors | Norman Taurog |
Screenplay | Hal Kanter |
Box office | 4. 2 million USD (US/ Canada rentals) |
Elvis Presley | |
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ID | 1095003 |
About Blue Hawaii
After being discharged from the U. S. Army, cool guy Chadwick Gates (Elvis Presley) returns home to Hawaii. Following several years of strict military life, Gates wants nothing more than to hang loose and surf all day. His family pressures him to work for the family pineapple business. Much to the chagrin of his snobby mother (Angela Lansbury), Gates lands a job as a tour guide at the same company where his girlfriend, Maile (Joan Blackman), also works. …
Obituary: Angela Lansbury

... By the beginning of the 1960s she was a veteran of 24 films of varying quality, including a role as the mother of a character played by Elvis Presley in Blue Hawaii, something she later said she did because she was desperate...
Justin Bieber beats Elvis Presley's US chart record

... Elvis was 26 when he scored his seventh chart-topper, with a Blue Hawaii in 1961...