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- Release Date: 1942
- Runtime: 76 min
- Genre: Comedy, Musical
- Starring: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Thomas Mitchell ... see all
- Director: Walter Lang
- Plot: With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But... Read more
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Grass Skirts? The Better To See Betty Grable's Legs
Apr 16, 2008
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Apr 16, 2008bkoganbing - imdb.com
I'm not sure but that Song of the Islands was had been done before December 7, 1941 and definitely before US servicemen started bleeding and dying in the South Seas. There certainly is no mention of World War II at... Full review
Grable in Technicolor in Hawaii
Apr 28, 2007
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Apr 28, 2007donofthedial - imdb.com
I never thought that this was one of the better Grable pictures and as I am taking a break from re-watching it for the first time in a decade I still hold to that original opinion.The film has, if possible,... Full review
Light fluffy war time comedy
Jun 21, 2005
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I kinda liked this movie. The plot is not much to write off and is questionable if it will have any appeal to adults because it involves full grown men and women acting like ten year olds. Set on the... Full review
Betty Grable In A Grass Skirt
Aug 27, 2000
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Great 1940s World War II Pacific island fantasy movie. The colors are so bright they almost can't be real. Victor Mature and Jack Oakie head to an island where Betty Grable lives in tropic splendor with her father (Thomas Mitchell... Full review
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Incidentally, some wonderful outtake footage of Song of the Islands exists, featuring Grable and Mature giggling their way through a tender love scene.
One of the shortest and sweetest of Betty Grable's Technicolor musicals, Song of the Islands casts the Leggy One as Eileen, the daughter of Hawaii-based Irish planter Dennis O'Brien (Thomas Mitchell).
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