Paradise, Hawaiian Style (Paramount Pictures) (1966)

GIRLS—GIRLS—GIRLS Still $10233/46 Mat 2B TOO MANY GIRLS—WHAT A PLEASANT PROBLEM! That’s the standard situation for Elvis Presley when he and James Shigeta are beseiged by applicants for a secretary’s job in a scene from the Hal Wallis Technicolor production of “Paradise—Hawaiian Style,” a Paramount Picture opening ....... at the. 223.-.: Theatre. Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Donna Butterworth and Marianna Hill co-star in the sun-filled story of music, song and plenty of problems women. “Paradise—Hawaiian Style” Has 10 Presley Song Hits The singer whose voice has probably been heard by more people than that of any other entertainer in the history of show business and who has earned a total gross of over $150 million in record sales alone, would have you believe he can’t stand the sound of it. His name is Elvis Presley. “Tt’s actually painful to me when I hear myself all alone. I like other singers backing me up.” He made this strange confession during production, after doing a number for the Paramount release of Hal Wallis’ “Paradise—Hawai ian Style,’’ which opens ...... at themes. Theatre. Producer Wallis smiles indul gently when he hears his star talk like this. “He can afford to say that,” Wallis noted. That voice Presley supposedly hates brings in a steady 10 per cent of all of RCA Victor’s record business annually. The versatile actorsinger has accumulated far more gold records, as the industry calls its million-sellers, than anyone else, 45 to date. And no one would be too surprised if all or most of the 10 numbers he sings in “Paradise, Hawaiian Style,” join the big hit list. It’s the Presley pattern. “The only other sure thing I know of in show business,” Wallis added, “is a picture with Elvis Presley.” There are 18 such pictures now in release and these have racked up total gross returns of about $175 million, and they’re still drawing. Self-loathing is a fairly common symptom of most performers, so it wouldn’t do to take Presley too y seriously. And, even if he does mean it, he stands almost alone in that regard. Many of the top actors and actresses claim they can’t bear to watch themselves on the screen. Two-time Academy Award winner Vivian Leigh disclosed that after completing “Gone With The Wind,” she went back to England thinking it would be as disaster. It rates as the box-office champion of all time. Tough guy Lee Marvin winces and says: “Spare me from going to the rushes of the previous day’s filming.” “Paradise—Hawaiian Style’ is Presley’s 21st motion picture and his seventh for Wallis, the man who brought him to Hollywood in the first place. “He was a national sensation on records, in TV and in personal appearances when I signed him,” the producer recalls. “But, everybody told me I was crazy—he was just a flash in the pan. Now, ten years later, he’s a bigger star than he ever was.” In the forthcoming Paramount release, which was directed by Michael Moore, Presley plays a wildcat helicopter pilot who island hops through the Hawaiian chain. Suzanna Leigh, the British debutanteturned-actress is co-starred in the Technicolor musical comedy, along with James Shigeta and Donna Butterworth. Elvis Presley’s “Paradise—Hawaiian Style” — Most Elaborate, Captivating and Eye-Filling! A small indication as to how much Elvis Presle he launched his film career 10 years ago, the star’s 21st feature, Paramount’s eS .... Theatre. Producer Hal Wallis has spared no expense in making Presley’s seventh film under his aegis the best and most elaborate to date. A full 21 shooting days were spent on location in the Hawaiian Islands, with scenes filmed in Technicolor on the islands of Kauai and Maui as well as on the main island of Oahu. The picture employed well over 1500 extras, 1100 from Hollywood and the balance drawn from the Screen Extra’s Guild’s newly opened branch in Hawaii, where, in addition to the extras, 180 native dancers from the Mormon Church’s Polynesian Cultural Center augmented the company on location. Two sequences of “Paradise— Hawaiian Style” were filmed at the Center, and each included a major musical production number, including a climaxing night-time spectacle in front of a simulated volcano spouting fire. Despite the danger and great difficulty involved, both Kaui Island’s scenic Waimea Canyon and its Canyon of The Lost Tribe were photographed from the air for “Paradise—Hawaiian Style,” a feature motion picture “first.” In the film, Presley plays a wildcatting, island hopping helicopter pilot in Hawaii. James Shigeta, Donna Butterworth and Suzanna Leigh are also starred and the balance of the cast includes Marianna Hill, Irene Tsu, Linda Wong, Julie Parrish and Grady Sutton. Filled with dance and song, the film highlights 10 songs sung by Elvis which are all considered in the race for the pop charts around the country. As for the visual. attractions, in addition to the natural beauty, there are many fine samples of feminine beauty to gaze upon. It’s a fun movie with plenty of everything for everyone. Still #10233/4 ELVIS PRESLEY portrays a wildeatting pilot of the South Sea Islands in the Hal Wallis Technicolor production, “Para Mat iA dise — Hawaiian Style,” which OPENS so ..-c schoo BEANE Mess success Theatre. Filmed on_ location under the director of Michael Moore for Paramount Pictures, it also co-stars Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Donna Butterworth and Marianna Hill. Redotesosososesosetetotetetototototeteterorererereroror, sotototozotetotzoseszerereretexetesetetetetotetes REGO OOOO OOOO tas Ps : : PULL ALOT OR OROROROTOLOT OT OTOL OTOTOTO? 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Donna Butterworth, the beginning of whose life (she was born on Feb. 28, 1956) almost coincides with the exact beginning of Elvis Presley’s screen career (contracted by Hal Wallis on April 2, 1956) considers her co-starring role in “Paradise— Hawaiian Style,” Paramount release which opens .......... at a aie Theatre, the big thrill of her young life. “Elvis has been my number one favorite since way, way back,” says the littlest big beater of them all, who still finds it hard to believe she co-starred opposite her hero. Hawaii has been the Butterworth family home, ever since the Philadelphia-born Donna was three. She was beside herself when she was offered a role in “Paradise—Hawaiian Style,” and learned it was to star Elvis. “At home,” her mother revealed, “Donna has all of his records and piles of magazine stories about him, but she never dreamed she’d ever actually meet him. And now, to work with her Elvis...” Donna did her first scene with Elvis Presley on a_ bench at Hanauma Bay, Oahu, and, after three weeks of location shooting, she returned to the mainland with the company to finish her role at the Paramount Studio. The daughter of the late Tom Butterworth, a construction foreman, the brown-eyed little girl with the flying Dutch-boy bob started her show business career on radio’s “Hawaii Calls” program conducted by Webley Edwards who had seen a perform in amateur competiion. _At the age of six, she was a hit, singing, dancing and playing the ukulele in the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Seattle World’s Fair. A television appearance led her to Jerry Lewis for a co-star role in “The Family Jewels,” the success of which got her a term contract with Paramount and a job as the feature attraction in the weekend floor show at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu. Hollywood fearlessly predicts she is destined for stardom. In “Paradise—Hawaiian Style,” she sings two songs with Elvis. “House Of Sand” and “Datin’,”’ and solos to “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home?” She plays the daughter of James Shigeta, who is cast as Presley’s partner and fellow pilot in a wildcat helicopter service. Other top roles in the Hal Wallis Technicolor production are handled by Suzanna Leigh and Marianna Hill. Michael Moore directed.