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Waikiki Wedding (1937) Facts
| Director(s) | Frank Tuttle |
| Producer(s) | Arthur Hornblow Jr. |
| Featured Cast | Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, George Barbier, Grady Sutton |
| Total Facts | 2 |
Bing Crosby sang "Sweet Leilani" by Harry Owens, which went on to win an Academy Award for Best Song. It beat out George and Ira Gershwin's "They Can't Take That Away from Me", which is from the 1937 film "Shall we Dance", and which, unlike the semi-forgotten "Sweet Leilani", became a classic. (Even the song "Blue Hawaii", also written for "Waikiki Wedding", is today more famous than "Sweet Leilani", thanks to Elvis Presley.) Bing Crosby sang four different Oscar winning songs in his films.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.