I'm pretty proud of this one - it was very difficult, because Muriel Smith made no attempt to match Hall's phrasing, and the tempo in the last half was far slower than the OBC recording.
But in this song in particular, I really prefer Juanita's voice. See what you think.
Logan had directed the stage version and he set off the songs by giving them different lighting - he wanted to do the same thing for the film.
In Hawaii, they shot most of the songs with the filters and also without the filters, as protection. Fox and Magna (the producers of the film) thought this was costing too much and ordered Logan to shoot only with the filters.
In the original tests, the change to color filters was a very subtle effect.
When Logan finished the film, he did not stay with it through postproduction as he was scheduled to direct a Broadway play. When he saw the film, Fox had pumped the color very high during the color filters - not what Logan wanted at all.
......In the beginning it was cinematographer Shamroy's purpose to use the filters only to pep up aspect of the beach scenes, which were the first scheduled for shooting after arrival on location at Kauai, and perhaps to give an emotional fillup to one or two of the love scenes in the closing sequences.
But as Josh Logan saw the results of Shamroy's first efforts, he decided to extend the technique to more and more of the picture. At one time, the irascible Shamroy, perturbed by Logan's repeated requests for a filter effect, demanded: "What the hell are you trying to make, Josh? You just don't do things this way in pictures!"
When Shamroy's first footage was processed by Technicolor and screened for Fox executives, opinion was strongly against his color innovation, and he was so advised by cable. When he explained the filters were employed to offset the bad weather and permit the company to continue it's regular schedule of shooting, one executive cabled: "What are you trying to do? Control the elements, too?"......
