DOLL OF THE WEEK

Mariana Hill played in two movies with Elvis. She has a small part in Roustabout. She had a much bigger role in Paradise, Hawaiian Style. I thought he character was pretty good and I enjoyed her parts with Elvis. The "Scratch My Back" number is awesome.

IMAGE OF THE WEEK

From the set of Paradise, Hawaiian Style.

POLL RESULTS

For this weeks poll we had the question which movie set in Hawaii is your favorite. Blue Hawaii was the winner with four votes.
Girls!Girls!Girls! had two and Paradise,Hawaiian Style has two as well.
Thinking about this poll got me in a Blue Hawaii mood. I have watched Blue Hawaii every night this week. I would say I am going to go watch it again tonight. Song below is one of my all time favorites.

HAWAII...USA

I just finished watching Paradise, Hawaiian Style. I will give some takes on it this afternoon. Paradise was filmed in late 65 and was released in July of 66. This was Elvis's twenty-first film. Elvis plays the part of Greg (Rick) Richards who has just been fired from being an airline pilot. He goes back home to Hawaii and hooks up with his old friend Danny Kohana. The two guys set out to start a business together where they fly people to various parts of the islands in helicopters. Along the way Rick finds himself in all kinds of trouble with all his girls, customers, people of authority, and even his partner. The storyline is not that greatest but I find the movie entertaining. The soundtrack is not that great and I cant pick out one song that stands out as something top notch. Some of the songs are fun and I dig them, but Elvis Presley should not have been singing that crap. Overall the movies is pretty good. Not his best as far as acting or script. It is not terrible though and is worth watching for even the casual fan. The movie ranked number forty on the list of top grossing movies for 1966 bringing in around 2.5 million.

DOLL OF THE WEEK

Julie Parrish is our doll of the week. She appeared in the 1966 movie Paradise Hawaiian Style. She played Joanna, one of the girls who helps Rick get clients for his business. She also had the pleasure of being in the classic A Dogs Life musical number. Julie was a great woman who did many great things in her lifetime. Julie passed away in October of 2003. I was lucky enough to see her and hear her speak during EW 03. She seemed so nice, and had a lot of interesting things to say. She never had a romantic relationship with Elvis. She thought very highly of him though and enjoyed being around him. I am off to watch Paradise in honer of this weeks doll.

Danny?

It is hard to tell from the picture since it is from a distance. I think this might be Danny Kohana though. He introduced himself that way to me anyhow. He even gave me his autograph, but It was misplaced before I could get home.