It Happened in Honolulu

It Happened in Honolulu

A Lively Romantic Drama of Love Triumphant

NR 1916 · 50 min · Comedy, Romance

Story of a pretty girl whose ambitious mother wants to marry her off to an English nobleman. The girl, however, loves a plain American, the son of a wholesale fish dealer. The girl's ineffectual father likes the young American too, but his wife overrides him and the family heads for Honolulu, where the matriarch hopes her daughter will wed the nobleman.

Directed by Lynn Reynolds · Written by Lynn Reynolds

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