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Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 24th, 2025, 1:56 pm
by colonel snow
First of all this is not a critism on Making of Blue Hawaii but an addition to some details.
I understand preparing the book you’ve to make choices about including important documents, To save space you must make edits and you can’t print all kind of the complete documents in the book. For sure with pages wich are not very important.
On page 14 is mentioned a portion of 2 page letter from the censor dated 31 january 1961.
Here is the complete letter.
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Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 24th, 2025, 2:20 pm
by colonel snow
On page 15 is mentioned a portion of 2 page letter from the censor dated2 march 1961.
Here is the complete letter.
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Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 24th, 2025, 2:41 pm
by Bilbobaggins
Thank you! This kind of documents are very interesting. They show the differences in what is and isn't acceptable in 1960 and the present day. Today things like "shaking her grass" wouldn't be a problem I guess. Today there are far more vulgar teksts in a lot of movies and lyrics.
Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 24th, 2025, 4:11 pm
by elvis-fan
colonel snow wrote: September 24th, 2025, 1:56 pm
First of all this is not a critism on Making of Blue Hawaii but an addition to some details.
I understand preparing the book you’ve to make choices about including important documents, To save space you must make edits and you can’t print all kind of the complete documents in the book. For sure with pages wich are not very important.
On page 14 is mentioned a portion of 2 page letter from the censor dated 31 january 1961.
Here is the complete letter.
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Can you imagine the pencil-neck assigned to read through the script (for a feature film) that came up with this hypocritical nonsense...
Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 25th, 2025, 5:42 am
by colonel snow
Letter 17 march 1961 from the censor to Hal Wallis.
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Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 25th, 2025, 5:47 am
by colonel snow
Letter 24 march 1961 from the censor to Hal Wallis.
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Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 25th, 2025, 7:20 am
by colonel snow
Letter 29 march 1961 from the censor according with the lyrics from Shave and a haircut routine.
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Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 25th, 2025, 7:35 am
by colonel snow
Letter 29 march 1961 from the censor according with the lyrics from “Chant”.
From the first song selection:
Chant - written by Dudley Brooks & Charles O’Curran.
An instrumental part (1:32) was used in the movie (reel 4 before Can’t help fallin’ in love).
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Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 25th, 2025, 7:58 am
by colonel snow
Analysis of film content
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Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 25th, 2025, 8:06 am
by colonel snow
Part of synopsis.
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Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 25th, 2025, 8:14 am
by colonel snow
Letter 29 may 1961 from censor.
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Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 25th, 2025, 8:32 am
by colonel snow
Here an example about censorship:
See letter censor from 3 november 1960 about pages 6-7:
Here pages 6-7 from final script dated 23 february 1961 with pages 6-7: scene 19.
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Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 25th, 2025, 8:49 am
by colonel snow
Here another example about censorship:
See letter censor from 31 january 1961 about page 15 – scene 38:
Here page 15 from final script dated 23 february 1961 with revised scene 38.
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Re: Making of Blue Hawaii
Posted: September 25th, 2025, 9:06 am
by colonel snow
Here another example about censorship:
See letter censor from 2 march 1961 about page 95 – scene 209:
Here page 95 from final script dated 23 february 1961 with scene 209.
According to the page from the script there are no changes.
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