Movies on the Fox: Blue Hawaii

Come experience what Los Angeles Magazine cites as one of LA’s strangest places to watch film. We don’t think Movies On The Fox is strange at all! Bring a chair and join us for this free event.

Fox Fullerton Theatre Parking Lot
April 17
If you'd like to sit with the group, please meet us at the Starbucks across the street, on the South East Corner of Chapman and Harbor between 6:30pm-7:00pm.  Please email me if you'd like to attend so I can watch for you and give you my contact telephone number in case you can't find us right away.  See you there!


Blue Hawaii
Elvis Presley’s character Chad is just out of the army. Hawaii is home and Chad is glad to be back surfing with his buddies, courting his girl, and steering clear of the family’s pineapple plantation. There isn’t much else to the plot in this easy, breezy romantic comedy. Blue Hawaii may not be Presley’s greatest achievement in acting, but we get to see him in top form both physically and musically.

Blue Hawaii, the highest grossing picture in Presley’s movie career, also produced his all time best selling soundtrack album. There are14 songs in the movie (about 1 every 8 minutes) including Can’t Help Falling in Love, a song that Presley would go on to sing as his closing number in every concert.

The popularity of Blue Hawaii started a wave of tourism and the wedding finale immortalized the Coco Palms, on the Garden Isle of Kaua`i. Its lush coconut groves, picturesque lagoons, and spectacular torch lighting ceremony would make the Coco Palms the world’s most famous Polynesian resort. Sadly, hurricane Iniki struck in 1992, closing the Coco Palms forever, a victim not only of the storm but of changing tastes.