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  1. With Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead. Set in the early '40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Mamie settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life.

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    • Drama, War
    • Raoul Walsh
    • 1956-06-22
  2. Plot. In 1941, prostitute Mamie Stover is pressured to leave San Francisco by the police. On a freighter bound for Honolulu, she meets Jim Blair, a successful writer and the only other passenger. Initially hostile, Mamie softens a bit when he starts using her life story for material for his writing.

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  4. The Revolt of Mamie Stover is a 1951 novel by William Bradford Huie about a young woman from Mississippi who goes to Hollywood to work as an actress. Driven into prostitution, she moves to Honolulu, works at a brothel and takes it over, challenges restrictions against prostitutes after the US armed forces are built up on the island, buys real ...

  5. Hooker w/o Heart of Gold. ilprofessore-1 14 January 2009. Shot partially on location in Hawaii and at the Twentieth Century Fox studios in Los Angeles in 1956, this film recreates the atmosphere of the islands before and during the Second World War.

  6. Nov 26, 2023 · November 24, 2023. Introduction. William Bradford Huie’s provocative novel “The Revolt of Mamie Stover” captivated readers when it was first published in 1951, offering a tantalizing glimpse into the simmering corruption and scandalous behavior lurking beneath the sunny exterior of wartime Honolulu.

    • William Bradford Huie
    • Audiobookformat
  7. Figuring Hawaii would be a great place to begin anew, Stover books a trip aboard a Honolulu-bound boat, where she happens to meet writer Jim Blair (Richard Egan), who is quite taken with the...

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    • Drama
  8. Screenshots. The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) Raoul Walsh's 20th Century Fox Cinemascopic, Technicolored, and heavily-censored drama was partly based on the 1951 novel by William Bradford Huie. The lead role was originally intended for Marilyn Monroe, but ended up played by well-stacked Jane Russell. Most of the film's exteriors were filmed on ...

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