Romance on the High Seas (1948) |
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Other InformationAwardsBest Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Academy Awards [1949] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Music, Original Song Academy Awards [1949] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryThis cute film is Doris Day`s film debut and in it she plays Georgia Garrett, a substitute traveller on an ocean cruise. Her friend Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) had scheduled the cruise but at the last minute cancels when she suspects that her husband i... TaglineRomance and Laughter...under a Rio moon! DiscographySinglesBrazilian Rhapsody Romance on the High Seas She`s a Latin from Manhattan Bridal Chorus Run, Run, Run The Tourist Trade I`m in Love It`s You or No One It`s Magic Put `em in a Box, Tie `em with a Ribbon and Throw `em in the Deep Blue Sea |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Plinio: I`m spending a fortune to redecorate this place so I can reopen in time for Carnival. To get my investment back I need an attraction, a real attraction. I need someone with a name!
Oscar Farrar: Whaddya think my mother gave me, a number? Rio hotel clerk: What if there IS blood shed in 314? We`re going to do the whole third floor over anyhow. 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. Georgia Garrett: Oscar! How did you get on this boat?
Oscar Farrar: I lied about my age. Georgia Garrett: Oscar! Aren`t you going to kiss me?
Oscar Farrar: I don`t know how. Will you show me?
[she kisses his cheek]
Oscar Farrar: You don`t know how either! Dudley: Oh! How do you do, Miss Garrett?
Georgia Garrett: Greetings, chum!
Dudley: My, we haven`t seen you, let`s see now, since you didn`t go to Switzerland.
Georgia Garrett: Yeah, I got a big kick out of planning that trip. What looks good this time of year?
Dudley: How about the Canadian Rockies?
Georgia Garrett: Canadian Rockies? Don`t you remember? I already haven`t been there! Peter Virgil: There`s something I just gotta do, I cant help myself.
Georgia Garrett: Well if you cant help yourself, you can`t help yourself.
Peter Virgil: I gotta find the cable-gram. Michael Kent: Are you a good detective?
Peter Virgil: Naturally, why?
Michael Kent: Where did you do your traning?
Peter Virgil: In the army. Intelligence G2.
Michael Kent: Well how are you at the job?
Peter Virgil: We won the war didn`t we? Oscar Farrar: To think we gave up a perfectly good rib!Trivia This was Doris Day`s first ever acting role, and she was extremely naive about how films were made. She wrote in her autobiography that the first scenes to be filmed would be aboard the cruise ship, and the first day she walked onto the sound stage and asked when they would be leaving for the boat? The crew broke up laughing. Doris Day and Jack Carson, who met while making this film, had a brief romance.
For the part of Georgia Garrett, Warner Bros. inquired about borrowing Judy Garland from MGM, but Metro`s policy at the time was not to lend Miss Garland to other studios. Warners then acquired Betty Hutton in a loan-out deal with Paramount, but before filming started, Miss Hutton had to bow out because of her pregnancy. There is a running gag about how awful Mrs. Elvira Kent`s singing voice is, as she is repeatedly begged not to sing. Ironically, Janis Paige was in fact a musical star in the movies. She would play the lead in "The Pajama Game" (1954) on Broadway, a role Doris Day would later play in the film, The Pajama Game (1957). The original title was apparently "Romance on the High C`s". When she saw herself in "dailies" early in this film`s production, Doris Day claims she was so embarrassed by her own performance she asked director Michael Curtiz to recommend a drama coach. "No, no!" Curtiz replied, "You`re a natural just as you are - if you learn how to act, you`ll ruin everything." The movie trailer includes a brief duet by Doris Day and Janis Paige, wearing matching up-swept hairdos. In her autobiography, Doris Day recalled that in her screen-test song, "A Rainy Night in Rio" (music, by Arthur Schwartz, lyrics by Leo Robin), director Michael Curtiz at first instructed her to move around in the frenzied film style of Betty Hutton. Doris then requested to perform the number in her natural, more sedate manner. A jaunty solo by Doris Day from the Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn film score, "I`m in Love," was turned into a duet by Miss Day and her hit-making disc partner, Buddy Clark, on the Columbia Records single. "Put `Em in a Box, Tie `Em With a Ribbon (And Throw` Em in the Deep Blue Sea)," another sprightly movie number, teamed Doris with The Page Cavanaugh Trio. On Columbia`s 78, Miss Day sang with a full orchestra under the baton of George Siravo. 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. "It`s Magic" was the release title in Great Britain, due to the British popularity of the film`s Oscar-nominated song (music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn). | ||
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