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Post #596044 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Jul 3, 2011 1:24 PM

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Man, they always manage to put these on when I am still just out of town! The 1951 "Bird of Paradise" is THE ultimate South Seas Movie Kitsch fest! It was a musical before, and filmed in 1932 by King Vidor with Dolores Del Rio, but this one stars Debra Paget in her most radiant beauty...

...unfortunately not in a costume and moves like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkrZikzlXXA

No wonder Elvis got his snake charmed by her! That Sabu character looks slightly stunned, too. But back to this movie: