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Romance on the High Seas (1948)
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3 July 1948 (USA) moreTagline:
Romance and Laughter...under a Rio moon!Plot:
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... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for 2 Oscars. moreNewsDesk:
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Neil Patrick Harris to Guest Host 'It's Magic!' Celebrating The Magic Castle (From BroadwayWorld.com. 18 October 2009, 3:00 AM, PDT)
Neil Patrick Harris to Guest Host 'It's Magic!' Celebrating The Magic Castle
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 21 September 2009, 10:29 AM, PDT)
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It's (manufactured) magic more (18 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jack Carson | ... | Peter Virgil, Private Detective | |
| Janis Paige | ... | Mrs. Elvira Kent | |
| Don DeFore | ... | Mr. Michael Kent | |
| Doris Day | ... | Miss Georgia Garrett | |
| Oscar Levant | ... | Oscar Farrar | |
| S.Z. Sakall | ... | Uncle Lazlo Lazlo | |
| Fortunio Bonanova | ... | Plinio | |
| Eric Blore | ... | Ship's doctor | |
| Franklin Pangborn | ... | Rio hotel clerk | |
| Leslie Brooks | ... | Miss Medwick | |
| William Bakewell | ... | Dudley (travel agent) | |
| John Berkes | ... | The Drunk (as Johnny Berkes) | |
| Avon Long | ... | Specialty player | |
| Page Cavanaugh | ... | Himself | |
| Sir Lancelot | ... | Specialty player |
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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. moreSoundtrack:
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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.