--- title: 'Blue Hawaii (1961)' type: 'film' director: 'Norman Taurog' released: '1961-01-01' runtime_minutes: 97 genres: - 'Music' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/blue-hawaii-1961' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054692/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Blue Hawaii (1961) 1961 · 97 min · Music, Romance · United States ## Synopsis Blue Hawaii is a 1961 American musical romantic comedy drama film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Elvis Presley. The screenplay by Hal Kanter was nominated by the Writers Guild of America in 1962 in the category of Best Written American Musical. The film opened at number two in box office receipts for that week and, despite mixed reviews from critics, finished as the 10th top-grossing film of 1961 and 14th for 1962 in the Variety national box office survey, earning $5 million. The film won a fourth place prize Laurel Award in the category of Top Musical of 1961. ## Credits - **Producer:** [Hal B. Wallis](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-b-wallis) - **Director:** [Norman Taurog](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-taurog) - **Screenplay:** [Hal Kanter](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-kanter) - **Original Music Composer:** [Joseph J. Lilley](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-j-lilley) - **Director of Photography:** [Charles Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-lang) - **Editor:** [Terry O. Morse](https://cinepixo.com/people/terry-o-morse) ## Cast - [Jose De Vega](https://cinepixo.com/people/jose-de-vega) - [Joan Blackman](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-blackman) - [Steve Brodie](https://cinepixo.com/people/steve-brodie) - [Gregory Gaye](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregory-gaye) - [Red West](https://cinepixo.com/people/red-west) - [Hal B. Wallis](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-b-wallis) - [Harold Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-miller) - [Iris Adrian](https://cinepixo.com/people/iris-adrian) - [Angela Lansbury](https://cinepixo.com/people/angela-lansbury) - [Elvis Presley](https://cinepixo.com/people/elvis-presley) - [John Archer](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-archer) - [Bess Flowers](https://cinepixo.com/people/bess-flowers) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/blue-hawaii-1961 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2075102); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.