Acting
Hilo Hattie
Born October 28, 1901 · Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Died December 12, 1979 · aged 78
No biography available.
Known For
Blue Hawaii · 1961Blue Hawaii
★ 6.11961
MovieMusicComedy
Just discharged GI Chad Gates returns to Hawaii, where he becomes a tour guide, defying his mother's wishes for him to join the family business.
Kismet · 1955Kismet
★ 5.61955
MovieMusicRomance
A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.
City Beneath the Sea · 1953City Beneath the Sea
★ 5.11953
MovieAdventureAction
Two adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica.
Song of the Islands · 1942Song of the Islands
★ 7.01942
MovieComedyMusic
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 Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, Eileen, and even his father can't break them up after he arrives and himself falls under the spell of island splendor.
Tahiti Nights · 1944Tahiti Nights
★ 9.01944
MovieComedyMusic
During World War Two, an American band leader, Jack arrives on a Tahitian island , and via a chain of unexpected events, soon finds himself soon about to be betrothed to Luana, the princess of a local tribe.
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki · 1955Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
★ 6.81955
MovieComedyAdventure
Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an illness. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.
Suicide Battalion · 1958Suicide Battalion
★ 6.31958
MovieWar
Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Jet Attack".
Hawaii Five-O · 1968Hawaii Five-O
★ 7.21968
SeriesAction & AdventureDrama
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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