Word: samoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...script allows him to remain as unbendingly oaken as ever in the face of all storms, meteorological as well as emotional, and he manages to make the tough, footloose sailing man reasonably credible. The picture's best feature: its richly authentic atmosphere. Filmed entirely in British West Samoa, the movie offers strikingly Technicolored views of the sea, the island and its people, swimming in their blue lagoon, climbing tall palms, and doing their intricately graceful Sasa, classical dance of Samoa. Unlike many other Hollywoodians at large in the South Seas, Director Mark Robson never permits his camera to leer...
Actor-Director Gene Kelly left the U.S. 18 months ago to make movies in Germany and England. Claudette Colbert went off to England and Italy. Clark Gable and Ava Gardner made a movie in Africa, Gregory Peck in Rome. Gary Cooper's cinemactivities took him from Samoa to Mexico and Europe. Kirk Douglas completed a film in Israel, then went to Italy...
From Apia. British Samoa, came a picture of Cinemactor Gary Cooper, proud spearer of a young octopus, which Cooper got during an off-duty period from his job of starring in Return to Paradise, based on a James Michener South Sea story...
After seven years, Henry Adams vaulted out of that chair into marriage and out of Boston to Washington. His wife's tragic suicide in 1885 (in a depressed state she took potassium cyanide) sent him barreling off to the ends of the earth: Japan, Samoa, Ceylon. "Positively everything in Japan laughs. The jinrickshaw men laugh while running at full speed five miles with a sun that visibly sizzles their drenched clothes. The women all laugh, but they are obviously wooden dolls, badly made, and can only cackle, clatter . . . and hop or slide in heelless straw sandals across floors...
...Show. In Samoa, Henry Adams found it even harder to keep the mental fig leaf in place. He got mildly squiffed on a coconut brew called kawa. Assured that he wasn't a missionary, the native girls put on a dance. "Five girls came into the light, with a dramatic effect that really I never felt before. Naked to the waist, their rich skins glistened with coconut oil. Around their heads and necks they wore garlands of green leaves in strips, like seaweeds, and these too glistened with oil, as though the girls had come...