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Title: Romance on the High Seas (1948)
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Nominated for 2 Oscars.
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Peter Virgil
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Elvira Kent
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Don DeFore | ... |
Michael Kent
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| Doris Day | ... |
Georgia Garrett
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Oscar Farrar
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| S.Z. Sakall | ... |
Uncle Lazlo Lazlo
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Fortunio Bonanova | ... |
Plinio
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Eric Blore | ... |
Ship's Doctor
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Franklin Pangborn | ... |
Rio Hotel Clerk
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Leslie Brooks | ... |
Miss Medwick
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Dudley (travel agent)
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John Berkes | ... |
The Drunk
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Avon Long | ... |
Specialty Singer
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Page Cavanaugh | ... |
Himself
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Page Cavanaugh Trio | ... |
Page Cavanaugh Trio
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Socialite Elvira Kent suspects her husband of fooling around with other women. When he announces he can't join her on their scheduled ocean voyage, she hires a nightclub singer, Georgia Garrett, to pose as her on the cruise. Elvira stays at a hotel near home so she can spy on her husband. She's unaware, however, that her husband has hired a detective, Peter Virgil, to keep an eye on her at sea. Of course, Peter doesn't realize that Georgia is not Mrs. Kent... Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
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Romance and Laughter...under a Rio moon!Parents Guide:
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USARelease Date:
3 July 1948 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Amore sotto coperta See more »Filming Locations:
Stage 28, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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1.37 : 1
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Georgia Garrett: You crook. You can go to jail for that.
Oscar Farrar: Marry me and you won't have to testify against me.
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(uncredited)
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Sung by Doris Day
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According to her 1975 autobiography, "Doris Day: Her Own Story" (co-written with A.E. Hotchner), Miss Day attended a show-biz party the night before she planned to leave for New York City. Also at the gathering was lyric writer Sammy Cahn who, taking Doris aside, explained that she would be the right match for the Cahn-Jule Styne score of this upcoming film. When, at Mr. Cahn's urging, Doris sang "Embraceable You" (music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin) for the party crowd, she was heard by director Michael Curtiz, who then asked her to test for the role of Georgia Garrett. See more »Quotes
Oscar Farrar: Incidentally, I picked up your last two paychecks. It was barely enough to pay for my plane ticket down here. Didn't even leave me enough to buy you a present! I feel like a cad.Georgia Garrett: You crook. You can go to jail for that.
Oscar Farrar: Marry me and you won't have to testify against me.
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Soundtracks
"I'm in Love"(uncredited)
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Sung by Doris Day
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It's the sort of script that Hollywood would have called a "merry marital mixup" back when, but with a little more stuff on the curveball than usual: A suspects B and B suspects A of infidelity, so A hires C to impersonate A on a cruise, while B hires private detective D to trail A, but D thinks C is A... There are some good lines, and director Curtiz, as was his wont, keeps things moving. Janis Paige is a hoot in a series of increasingly bizarre hats, and the unusual dullness of the Warners leading men (I mean, Don DeFore?) doesn't hurt that much. Doris even manages to look enraptured opposite the slightly snarky Jack Carson, and sings "It's Magic" three times. Even Carson sings, and not badly, though it's a somewhat xenophobic mock-Trinidad specialty number that's embarrassing by today's standards. Doris, in her film debut, is assured and pleasant, and so is the movie, in a studio-manufactured kind of way.