Good heavens those are beautiful women
Elvis was 31 years old in 1966 when this film was released
In 1961 he had the concert to raise money for the Arizona Memorial, he made 27 movies in the 60s, about 3 a year, and the director of this movie, Paradise Hawaiian Style directed 9 of them... and as ridiculously bad as they are, almost every one was profitable - and the ones on location in Hawaii got him on a working vacation
He proposed to Pricilla in Dec '66. They married in 67
The beautiful young Chinese woman, Irene Tsu, got her break in a Jimmy Stewart movie, was in 50 tv shows, and 32 movies, and now sells luxury Beverly Hills/Hollywood real estate and teaches yoga. She
was also the TV spokeswoman for Chevron Island Wiki Wiki Dollars which were part of the West Coast duel between Chevron and Shell
Tsu was in most tv shows in the 60s and 70s, My 3 Sons, Perry Mason, I Spy, Mission Impossible, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Rockford Files, and The Wild Wild West.
She dated Sinatra for 2 years
Chevron paid game players "Wiki Wiki Dollars" of $1 to $2,500 for matching segments of game pieces and offered more than $2,300,000 in prizes as part of a "hula" bingo game
looks a lot like Pom Klementieff, who plays Mantis in the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
I think that everyone ignored my advice to interview James Garner before he died, as he could have been invaluable to paint the scene of Hollywood in the 60s and 70s, as he was a friend and competitor of Steve McQueen...
But Irene Tsu? Is probably the most overlooked last connection to Hollywood of the 60s and 70s... she worked with Jimmy Stewart, Elvis, James Garner, Bill Cosby, and dated Sinatra.
Let's see Hagerty, Hemmings, The Drive, and Jalopnik try and come within a mile of any post as cool as Elvis, Hawaii, Die Hard, James Garner, Sinatra, and Irene Tsu hula dancing on a gas pump
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