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Having inherited the warhorse stage piece Bird of Paradise from his predecessor William LeBaron, RKO Radio production chief David O. Selznick opted to do the property up brown, hoping to transform the Richard Walton Tully original into RKO's "prestige" offering of 1932. Joel McCrea stars as a handsome South Seas soldier of fortune who falls in love with Dolores Del Rio, the daughter of a Polynesian native chieftain. Alas, their idyllic romance is destined to come to a sudden and violent end: tribal custom decrees that Del Rio is to be sacrificed to the local volcano. After initial resistance, the heroine nobly resigns herself to her fate, realizing that there is no place for her in her white lover's civilization. A more conservative (and far less costly) version of Bird of Paradise was filmed in 1952, with Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget.
About this movie
Genres: Science Fiction
Language:English
Running time:1:20:33
Released:1932
About this movie
Genres: Science Fiction
Language:English
Running time:1:20:33
Released:1932
Cast & Crew
Cast
Bruce Kellogg
Otto Waldis
Jim Bannon
Tom Handley
Dick Cogan
George Baxter
Marilyn Nash
Dolores Del Rio
Luana
Joel McCrea
Johnny Baker
John Halliday
Mac
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Thornton
Richard "Skeets" Gallagher
Chester
James Newill
Renfrew
Carolyn Hughes
Virginia Bronson
William Royle
George Hollis
Donald Reed
McDonald
Evelyn Brent
Cherry Malotte
Blanche Sweet
Queenie
Jean Arthur
Mildred Wayland
Joel McCrea
Boyd Emerson
Directors
- Terry O. Morse
- King Vidor
- Albert Herman
- George Archainbaud
- Robert Florey
Producers
- Irving Block
- Jack Rabin
- Robert L. Lippert
- David O. Selznick
- Gordon Griffith
- Albert Herman
- William Le Baron
- William Sistrom
- Joseph N. Ermolieff
Writers
- Millard Kaufman
[text]Having inherited the warhorse stage piece Bird of Paradise from his predecessor William LeBaron, RKO Radio production chief David O. Selznick opted to do the property up brown, hoping to transform the Richard Walton Tully original into RKO's "prestige" offering of 1932. Joel McCrea stars as a handsome South Seas soldier of fortune who falls in love with Dolores Del Rio, the daughter of a Polynesian native chieftain. Alas, their idyllic romance is destined to come to a sudden and violent end: tribal custom decrees that Del Rio is to be sacrificed to the local volcano. After initial resistance, the heroine nobly resigns herself to her fate, realizing that there is no place for her in her white lover's civilization. A more conservative (and far less costly) version of Bird of Paradise was filmed in 1952, with Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget.
About this movie
Genres: Science Fiction
Language:English
Running time:1:20:33
Released:1932
Cast & Crew
Cast
Bruce Kellogg
Otto Waldis
Jim Bannon
Tom Handley
Dick Cogan
George Baxter
Marilyn Nash
Dolores Del Rio
Luana
Joel McCrea
Johnny Baker
John Halliday
Mac
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Thornton
Richard "Skeets" Gallagher
Chester
James Newill
Renfrew
Carolyn Hughes
Virginia Bronson
William Royle
George Hollis
Donald Reed
McDonald
Evelyn Brent
Cherry Malotte
Blanche Sweet
Queenie
Jean Arthur
Mildred Wayland
Joel McCrea
Boyd Emerson
Directors
- Terry O. Morse
- King Vidor
- Albert Herman
- George Archainbaud
- Robert Florey
Producers
- Irving Block
- Jack Rabin
- Robert L. Lippert
- David O. Selznick
- Gordon Griffith
- Albert Herman
- William Le Baron
- William Sistrom
- Joseph N. Ermolieff
Writers
- Millard Kaufman
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