Hawaii: Why Hollywood loves it

By Steve Meacham
Updated September 6 2015 - 1:28am, first published 12:15am
Elvis in Blue Hawaii. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives
Elvis in Blue Hawaii. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives
Elvis in Blue Hawaii. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives
Elvis in Blue Hawaii. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives
Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in <i>From Here To Eternity</i>.
Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in <i>From Here To Eternity</i>.
Elvis in Blue Hawaii. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives
Elvis in Blue Hawaii. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives
Elvis in Blue Hawaii. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives
Elvis in Blue Hawaii. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives

Even six decades later, it remains one of the sexiest scenes Hollywood has ever produced.  Two illicit lovers – the neglected wife of an American officer and his First Sergeant – flaunt  their affair, lying in each other's arms as the Hawaiian surf washes suggestively over them, oblivious to the fact that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour is only weeks away.

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