Pagan Love Song

Pagan Love Song is a musical romance film released by MGM in 1950 and starring Esther Williams and Howard Keel. Set in Tahiti, it was based on the novel Tahiti Landfall by William S. Stone.

Hazard Endicotts arrival changes her plans. He is a school teacher from Ohio who has inherited a Tahiti estate. His first task is to hire a servant and he mistakes Mimi for a native girl, offering her a job. She amuses herself by not telling him the truth.The estate turns out to be little more than a shack. Endicott also miscalculates an invitation to a party at Kates, coming in casual island attire to an event with elegantly dressed guests. Mimi takes pity on him and a romance blooms. ........

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