Hawaiian Holiday

This article is about the Mickey Mouse cartoon. For the Toy Story Toons short, see Hawaiian Vacation.

Hawaiian Holiday
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBen Sharpsteen
Produced byWalt Disney
John Sutherland
StarringWalt Disney
Marcellite Garner
Pinto Colvig
Clarence Nash
Music byPaul J. Smith
Animation byShamus Culhane
Nick DeTolly
Frenchy de Tremaudan
Al Eugster
Nick George
Wolfgang Reitherman
Layouts byRobert Dranko
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • September 24, 1937 (1937-09-24)
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Running time
8 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Hawaiian Holiday is a 1937 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon stars an ensemble cast of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, and Goofy while vacationing in Hawaii (at the time was an organized incorporated territory of the United States). The film was directed by Ben Sharpsteen, produced by John Sutherland and features the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey, Marcellite Garner as Minnie, Clarence Nash as Donald, and Pinto Colvig as Goofy and Pluto. It was Disney's first film to be released by RKO, ending a five-year distributing partnership with United Artists.[2]

Hawaiian Holiday was the 96th short in the Mickey Mouse film series to be released, and the seventh for the year.[3] The cartoon features the music of "On the Beach at Waikiki", performed by Hawaiian musician Frank Ferera, and "Aloha ʻOe", written by Hawaii's former queen, Liliʻuokalani.

  1. ^ Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
  2. ^ Hawaiian Holiday Archived 2011-03-17 at the Wayback Machine at The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 107–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.