The Bird of Paradise (play)

The Bird of Paradise is a melodramatic American play of 1912 set in Hawaii, the best known work of Richard Walton Tully.

[1] Even though New York City audiences found The Bird of Paradise ridiculous, it was a modest success on Broadway in 1912, running to 114 performances[1] at Maxine Elliott's Theatre between January 22 and April 13, 1912.

[1][4] While the litigation continued, no Hollywood producer wanted to touch a film project based on the play, turning instead to other stories set in the Pacific islands.

Finally, in 1932, Bird of Paradise was filmed, with Dolores del Rio as Luana and Joel McCrea as her lover.

[1] The story was filmed again as Bird of Paradise (1951), with Debra Paget playing a central character renamed as Kalua.