Ship Ahoy is a 1942 American musical - comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Eleanor Powell and Red Skelton . It was produced by MGM .
6-516: Ship Ahoy or Ship Ahoy! may refer to: Ship Ahoy (film) , a 1942 American musical-comedy film Ship Ahoy (album) , a 1973 album by The O'Jays " Ship Ahoy! (All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor) ", a 1908 English music hall song Ship Ahoy! (film) , a 1931 Swedish comedy film Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
12-474: Is a dancing star who is hired to perform on an ocean liner. Before she leaves, she is recruited by what she believes is a branch of the American government and asked to smuggle a prototype explosive mine out of the country. In fact, she is unknowingly working for Nazi agents who have stolen the mine. Meanwhile, Merton Kibble, a writer of pulp fiction adventure stories suffering from severe writer's block ,
18-620: Is chiefly remembered today for an uncredited performance by Frank Sinatra as a singer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra . The movie includes a number in which Powell's character, communicates with US agent in the audience by tapping out a message in morse code . The film was to be called I ' ll Take Manila but was renamed after the Japanese captured the Philippines . The setting was changed to Puerto Rico and
24-497: Is on the same ship, and soon he finds himself embroiled in Tallulah's real-life adventure. The brief finale takes place in front of a Navy recruiting station, surrounded by a chorus of sailors. The guys and their girls—and Dorsey's orchestra —are all in uniform, singing "Last Call for Love". Ship Ahoy was the first of two films in which Powell and Skelton co-starred. It is considered a lesser effort for both actors. The film
30-469: The song “I'll Take Manila" became "I'll Take Tallulah". Skelton and Powell next paired up in 1943's I Dood It . In that film, they appeared with Jimmy Dorsey , Tommy's brother. In his June 26, 1942 review in The New York Times , Bosley Crowther lightly praised the “moderate and tuneful little cruise…Metro has stretched the whole thing out about half again as long as it should be, with
36-470: The title Ship Ahoy . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ship_Ahoy&oldid=1246744589 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ship Ahoy (film) Tallulah Winters
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