HONOLULU

CREDITS

1939, 83 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Jack Cummings; Director, Edward Buzzell; Screenplay, Herbert Fields and Frank Partos; Cinematography, Ray June; Music Direction, Franz Waxman; Choreography, Bobby Connolly.

CAST

Dorothy March, Eleanor Powell; Brooks Mason/George Smith/Joe Duffy, Robert Young; George Jonas, George Burns; Gracie Alden, Gracie Allen; Cecilia Grayson, Rita Johnson; Eve, Ruth Hussey; Horace Grayson, Clarence Kolb; Psychiatrist, Sig Rumann; Washington, Eddie Anderson; Nurse, Jo Ann Sayers; Gale Brewster, Ann Morris; Wong, Willie Fung; Themselves, The King's Men.

SONGS

The Leader Doesn't Like Music; This Night Was Made for Dreaming; Honolulu by Harry Warren and Gus Kahn; Hymn to the Sun by P.G. Wodehouse and Armand Versey.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Handsome movie heartthrob Brooks Mason (Robert Young) is tired of being besieged by adoring fans. When he meets his exact double, a shy Hawaiian plantation owner named George Smith (also played by Young), they decide to switch for a month. While Mason blissfully sails off to Hawaii he meets and falls in love with a beautiful dancer (Eleanor Powell) - but when he arrives in Honolulu he finds Smith's fiancee Cecilia, who's ready to marry. Meanwhile, poor Smith has been sent to a New York hospital, thanks to overzealous fans. Two women and one crazy scheme add up to double trouble for Mason, and all of sudden the game's no fun. . .until Smith's grinning houseboy, Wong, gets a bright idea."
- Liner Notes from Turner/MGM-UA Videotape

NOTES

"Miss Powell, at least, was given several opportunities to do what she did best, and on one occassion even did it with a skipping rope."
Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Fairly amusing comedy for top brackets in duals."
- Variety

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