Dolores del Río
Luana
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Synopsis
A visiting sailor becomes involved with a woman from a Pacific island community. Their attraction grows across differences neither fully controls. An imagined tropical paradise becomes the setting for a romance threatened by the demands of the surrounding world.
Cast
DirectorsKing Vidor
Inspirations
Richard Walton Tully's play became a film shot in Hawaii. Its imagined island culture reflects Hollywood's exoticising conventions; the story is not an ethnographic account of the communities where it was filmed.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
Photograph credit
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- Dolores del Río — None visible, probably RKO publicity · Public domain
- Joel McCrea — Unknown author · Public domain
- John Halliday — Los Angeles Times · CC BY 4.0
- Richard "Skeets" Gallagher — Photographer: Maurice Seymour, Chicago. · Public domain
