Elvis Presley- can’t help falling in love(Film,Blue Hawaii, Hawaii 1961)

Blue Hawaii is a 1961 American musical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Elvis Presley. Hal Kantor's screenplay was nominated for Best Screenplay of an American Musical by the Writers Guild of America in 1962. The film opened second in the box office during its opening week and received mixed reviews from critics, but Variety magazine's national box office survey ranked it 10th in 1961 and 14th in 1962, grossing $5 million. The film won the fourth Laurel Award for Top Musical of 1961. Blue Hawaii was the first of three films starring Elvis to be filmed in Hawaii; Girls! Girls! Girls! was filmed in 1962 and Paradise Hawaiian Style in 1965. Producer Hal B. Wallis was eager to cast Presley in a film depicting the human impact of the military. Juliet Prowse, Elvis's co-star in G.I. Blues, was offered the role of his girlfriend again. However, when she insisted, Paramount withdrew her from the role and chose Joan Blackman instead. Elvis's complexion was apparently so poor before filming began that Wallis personally recommended he use a tanning lamp to darken his skin. The film was announced in the fall of 1960 as Hawaii Beach Boy. Presley arrived in Hawaii on March 18, 1961, and was scheduled to hold a benefit concert on March 25 to raise funds for the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. He arrived at the recording studio on March 21 to begin recording the film's soundtrack. Three weeks later, location shooting was completed, including scenes at Waikiki Beach, Diamond Head, Mount Tantalus, and Hanauma Bay, an ocean-side volcanic crater near Hawaii Kai, a commuter town a few miles from Waikiki. After location filming, the crew returned to Paramount Studios to finish the film's other scenes. Presley relaxed during filming by performing karate drills with his friend and employee, Red West, which resulted in bruised and swollen fingers. Wallis warned the film's female stars not to attend parties hosted by Elvis because they would show up to set looking exhausted. Wallis used the box office proceeds from Blue Hawaii to finance his 1964 film, Becket, starring Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole. Elvis was 26 when the film was released, and Angela Lansbury, not yet 36, played his mother. Nancy Walters, who was cast as the older teacher, was actually only 18 months older than Presley. Soundtrack Elvis's remake of the title song introduced it to audiences young enough not to remember Bing Crosby's original hit version. The Blue Hawaii soundtrack spent 79 weeks on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, spending 20 of those weeks at number one. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has certified it as having sold 3 million copies in the United States. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1961 for Best Motion Picture or Television Soundtrack Album or Original Cast Recording. The soundtrack, which includes Presley's hit "Can't Help Falling in Love," has sold over one million copies in the United States and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The song peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100,spent six weeks at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart, and reached number one in the UK charts in 1962.As of March 4, 2024, "Can't Help Falling in Love" is Elvis Presley's most-streamed song, with 836,193,249 streams on Spotify. On the same day, it surpassed 400 million streams on the Elvis Presley YouTube channel. #elvis #presley #blue #hawaii #can’t #help #falling #in #love #epic #king #entertainment #entertainer #elvis #fans #america #icon #king #of #music #rocknroll #rock #country #bruce #gospel #ballad #the #king #rock #americandream #king #entertainment #handsome #cool #greatest #great #legend, #superstar #greatest #singer #1961s