Rainbow Island
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ralph Murphy
Screenplay by	Arthur Phillips Walter DeLeon
Story by	Seena Owen
Produced by	E.D. Leshin
Starring	Dorothy Lamour Eddie Bracken Gil Lamb Barry Sullivan Forrest Orr Anne Revere Reed Hadley
Cinematography	Karl Struss
Edited by	Arthur P. Schmidt
Music by	Roy Webb
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	September 5, 1944 (1944-09-05)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Rainbow Island is a 1944 American musical comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Arthur Phillips and Walter DeLeon. The film stars Dorothy Lamour, Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan, Forrest Orr, Anne Revere and Reed Hadley. The film was released on September 5, 1944, by Paramount Pictures.^[1][2]

Plot

Cast

• Dorothy Lamour as Lona
• Eddie Bracken as Toby Smith
• Gil Lamb as Pete Jenkins
• Barry Sullivan as Ken Masters
• Forrest Orr as Dr. Curtis
• Anne Revere as Queen Okalana
• Reed Hadley as High Priest Kahuna
• Marc Lawrence as Alcoa
• Adia Kuznetzoff as Executioner
• Olga San Juan as Miki
• Elena Verdugo as Moana

Production

Dorothy Lamour was reluctant to play the lead. Paramount was going to use contract player Yvonne De Carlo instead but then Lamour changed her mind, and De Carlo was relegated to a bit player. "You might have seen Gil Lamb chasing me through the bushes in it", said De Carlo later.^[3]