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Hawaiian Nights

  • 19391939
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 5m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
15
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Mary Carlisle, Johnny Downs, Princess Luana, Constance Moore, and Eddie Quillan in Hawaiian Nights (1939)
ComedyMusicRomance
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has... Read allBandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
15
YOUR RATING
    • Albert S. Rogell
    • John Grey(story)
    • Charles Grayson(screenplay)
    • Lee Loeb(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Johnny Downs
    • Constance Moore
    • Mary Carlisle
    • Albert S. Rogell
    • John Grey(story)
    • Charles Grayson(screenplay)
    • Lee Loeb(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Johnny Downs
    • Constance Moore
    • Mary Carlisle
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    • 1User review
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    Johnny Downs and Constance Moore in Hawaiian Nights (1939)
    Mary Carlisle, Johnny Downs, and Eddie Quillan in Hawaiian Nights (1939)
    Mary Carlisle, Johnny Downs, and Eddie Quillan in Hawaiian Nights (1939)
    Johnny Downs in Hawaiian Nights (1939)
    Mary Carlisle and Eddie Quillan in Hawaiian Nights (1939)
    Mary Carlisle, Johnny Downs, Constance Moore, and Eddie Quillan in Hawaiian Nights (1939)

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    Johnny Downs
    Johnny Downs
    • Ted Hartley
    Constance Moore
    Constance Moore
    • Lonnie Lane
    Mary Carlisle
    Mary Carlisle
    • Millie
    Eddie Quillan
    Eddie Quillan
    • Ray Peters
    Etienne Girardot
    Etienne Girardot
    • Alonzo Dilman
    Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds
    • Lane
    Thurston Hall
    Thurston Hall
    • T.C. Hartley
    Robert Emmett Keane
    Robert Emmett Keane
    • Fothering
    Willie Fung
    Willie Fung
    • Murphy
    Princess Luana
    • Luana
    Prince Leilani
    • Leileni
    • (as Prince Leileni)
    Matty Malneck
    • Orchestra Leader
    Sol Hoopii Jr.
    Sol Hoopii Jr.
    • Hawaiian Band Leader
    • (as Sol Hoopii)
    Matty Malneck's Orchestra
    • Orchestra
    Sol Hoopii Hawaiian Band
    • Band
    Harry A. Bailey
    • Bit Part
    • (uncredited)
    Chris Willow Bird
    Chris Willow Bird
    • Joe
    • (uncredited)
    Lowell Drew
    • Restaurant Proprietor
    • (uncredited)
      • Albert S. Rogell
      • John Grey(story)
      • Charles Grayson(screenplay)
      • Lee Loeb(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      This film was on a double-feature bill with Beau Geste at the Fox Theater in Riverside, Calif., on Sept. 9, 1939, when the manager made the announcement before the film began that the regularly scheduled movies would be preempted for a movie preview. He said the audience could stay or leave now, but no one could come or go once the preview movie began. When the preview's credits began and Margaret Mitchell's name came onscreen just before the title "Gone with the Wind" began to sweep across the screen, the audience went wild with unceasing cheers and applause for several minutes. The emotional impact was so much that Producer David O. Selznick, unrecognized and sitting in the back of the theater, wept uncontrollably. The rest of the world would not have opportunity to see the much-hyped and highly anticipated "Gone with the Wind" until its premeire more than three months later on Dec. 15 in Atlanta, Ga.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
    • Soundtracks
      Hawaii Sing Me to Sleep
      Written by Frank Loesser and Matty Malneck

      Sung by Johnny Downs

    User reviews1

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    5/10
    Bland programmer has only one distinction for me...
    I vaguely recall seeing this when movies were first being shown on television sometime in the fifties, and recall that it never impressed me as anything more than a slight little comedy with some nice nightclub settings and pretty CONSTANCE MOORE in one of the leading roles. I can barely recall JOHNNY DOWNS at all, but he was the male lead.

    However, the only thing that sets this apart for me, in a film memory that goes back pretty far, is the fact that it was the film being shown in September of 1939 at the Riverside theater in Riverside, California when David O. Selznick decided to give GONE WITH THE WIND a sneak preview. At the conclusion of HAWAIIAN NIGHTS, it was announced that a major motion picture was about to be unveiled before an audience expecting to see Gary Cooper in BEAU GESTE.

    The manager of the theater, according to reports I've seen, got on stage and told people no one would be allowed into or out of the theater once the film began and they should leave now if they wanted to go home. I doubt many people budged from their seats!! Then, as soon as the lights went out and the GWTW titles began, the audience cheered with delight and history was in the making.

    But since then, HAWAIIAN NIGHTS has been merely a blip on anyone's radar screen.

    Trivia note: When HAWAIIAN NIGHTS ended, one little boy said to his mother: "Now can we see BEAU GESTE?"
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    • Release date
      • September 8, 1939 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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    • 1 hour 5 minutes
      • Black and White

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