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Topic: Honolulu ..movie |
Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 7 Mar 2016 9:14 am |
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I just watched a 1939 movie called "Honolulu", and there on a stage with Hawaiian musicians was Andy Iona playing his Rickenbacher frypan ! 
The movie was Hollywood-ized a bit of course, and not sure the hula dancers were doing it right !!
Andy's steel guitar certainly sounded good though !
In one part of the movie, one of the actors was supposedly flying to Hawaii on the clipper, which I believe was an early one, a Sikorsky (sp) ?... fying boat...
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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John Sluszny
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Brussels, Belgium
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Barbara Berg
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2016 4:30 pm Honolulu
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Thanks for sharing this with us, Eleanor Powell definitely should be on dancing with the stars! And Gracie Allen is just as scatter brained as ever (in a great talented way!)
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 9 Mar 2016 12:32 pm
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It was perhaps a sign of the times that Honolulu was not received well among the Hawaiian establishment (moneyed, influence and conservative) in the same way that Carmen Miranda was ridiculed in Brazil.
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