The Little Hut, Vero Beach, FL (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

H Hamo Grand Member (3 years) Colorado (via Iowa) Joined: Aug 22, 2016 Posts: 2068	H Hamo Posted posted on Sun, Jun 9, 2019 4:07 PM On 2019-06-09 08:08, howlinowl wrote: The Little Hut restaurant is possibly a namesake. Maybe. Here's what Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide says about the movie: "Busy husband [Stewart] Granger takes sexy wife [Ava] Gardner for granted. Will her friendship with [David] Niven stay platonic when all three are stranded on an island? Static, flat, talky sex farce from the Andre Roussin play." And paraphrasing Wikipedia, the 1947 French play was a hit in Paris and then did well in London after it was translated into English in 1950, but it flopped on Broadway in 1953. Not sure the 1957 film did much better. And that's despite the poster! Get a load of the caption: "This is my costume - on the desert island where I was shipwrecked with Stewart Granger and David Niven. -Ava Gardner"

On 2019-06-09 08:08, howlinowl wrote:
The Little Hut restaurant is possibly a namesake.

Maybe. Here's what Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide says about the movie:

"Busy husband [Stewart] Granger takes sexy wife [Ava] Gardner for granted. Will her friendship with [David] Niven stay platonic when all three are stranded on an island? Static, flat, talky sex farce from the Andre Roussin play."

And paraphrasing Wikipedia, the 1947 French play was a hit in Paris and then did well in London after it was translated into English in 1950, but it flopped on Broadway in 1953. Not sure the 1957 film did much better.

And that's despite the poster!

Get a load of the caption: "This is my costume - on the desert island where I was shipwrecked with Stewart Granger and David Niven. -Ava Gardner"

Post #795585 by Hamo on Sun, Jun 9, 2019 4:07 PM