Hiawatha (1952 film) Hiawatha (1952 film) Hiawatha is a 1952 American film based on the 1855 epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, centering on Native Americans in pre-Columbian times. Directed by Kurt Neumann, with stars Vincent Edwards and Yvette Dugay, it became the final feature produced by the low-budget Monogram Pictures, a mainstay of Hollywood's Poverty Row. Hiawatha, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is on a peace mission to the Dakotah tribe. He meets and falls in love with Minnehaha. The romance is obstructed by a threatened war between the two tribes, instigated by a hot-headed Ojibway tribe
Twin Cities Hiawatha again established a "Twin Cities Hiawatha" as a daily Chicago-Minneapolis train, but ended this service in 1978 with the introduction of the "North Star", a Chicago-Minneapolis-Duluth sleeper. Today, the "Hiawatha" name still lives on with Chicago-Milwaukee Amtrak "Hiawatha Service", and Amtrak's "Empire Builder" traverses the original route of the "Twin Cities Hiawatha" between Chicago and St. Paul. The "Twin Cities Hiawatha" ran on the railroad's main line from Chicago and Milwaukee to St. Paul and Minneapolis. Originally only five intermediate stops were made between Milwaukee and St. Paul. Later other stops were added, as well as Glenview, Illinois between Chicago