Research Catalog

Title

Romance on the high seas [videorecording] / Warner Brothers Pictures ; director, Michael Curtiz ; producer, Alex Gottlieb ; screenplay, Julius L. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein.

Publication

Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1990, c1948.

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Additional Authors

• Carson, Jack, 1910-1963
• Paige, Janis
• Day, Doris, 1922-2019
• Levant, Oscar, 1906-1972
• Sakall, S. Z., 1884-1955
• Bonanova, Fortunio, 1895-1969
• Long, Avon
• Curtiz, Michael, 1886-1962
• Berkeley, Busby, 1895-1976
• Gottlieb, Alex, 1906-1988
• Styne, Jule, 1905-1994
• Cahn, Sammy
• Epstein, Julius J., 1909-2000
• Epstein, Philip G
• Grot, Anton, 1884-1974.
• Anderson, Milo.
• Warner Bros. Pictures.
• DHCA.

Description

1 videocassette (99 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Musical about a singer who takes the place of a socialite on a cruise and finds herself embroiled in the plots and counterplots of a suspicious husband and wife.

Genre/Form

• Features.
• Musicals.
• Motion pictures.

Note

• Motion picture originally released by Warner Brothers Pictures in 1948 ; re-issued as a videotape by MGM/UA Home Video in 1990.

Credits (note)

• Director of photography, Elwood Bredell ; musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley ; music, Jule Styne ; lyrics, Sammy Cahn ; screenplay from a story by S. Pondal Rios and Carlos A. Olivari ; art direction, Anton Grot ; costumes, Milo Anderson.

Performer (note)

• Jack Carson (Peter Virgil), Janis Paige (Elvira Kent), Don de Fore (Michael Kent), Doris Day (Georgia Garrett), Oscar Levant (Oscar Farrar), S.Z. Sakall (Uncle Lazlo), Fortunio Bonanova (Plinio), and others ; specialties by Avon Long, the Samba Kings, and Sir Lancelot.

Contents

Dance contents: Many of the musical numbers include some dance movement, but there are no set pieces of the type Berkeley made famous.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1969

ISBN

0792807634

OCLC

• 77702661
• NYPY95-F170

Title

Romance on the high seas [videorecording] / Warner Brothers Pictures ; director, Michael Curtiz ; producer, Alex Gottlieb ; screenplay, Julius L. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein.

Imprint

Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1990, c1948.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Cast

Jack Carson (Peter Virgil), Janis Paige (Elvira Kent), Don de Fore (Michael Kent), Doris Day (Georgia Garrett), Oscar Levant (Oscar Farrar), S.Z. Sakall (Uncle Lazlo), Fortunio Bonanova (Plinio), and others ; specialties by Avon Long, the Samba Kings, and Sir Lancelot.

Credits

Director of photography, Elwood Bredell ; musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley ; music, Jule Styne ; lyrics, Sammy Cahn ; screenplay from a story by S. Pondal Rios and Carlos A. Olivari ; art direction, Anton Grot ; costumes, Milo Anderson.

Added Author

Carson, Jack, 1910-1963, performer.

Paige, Janis, performer.

Day, Doris, 1922-2019, performer.

Levant, Oscar, 1906-1972, performer.

Levant, Oscar, 1906-1972, instrumentalist.

Sakall, S. Z., 1884-1955, performer.

Bonanova, Fortunio, 1895-1969, performer.

Long, Avon, performer.

Curtiz, Michael, 1886-1962, film director.

Berkeley, Busby, 1895-1976, choreographer.

Gottlieb, Alex, 1906-1988, film producer.

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994, composer.

Cahn, Sammy, lyricist.

Epstein, Julius J., 1909-2000, screenwriter.

Epstein, Philip G, screenwriter.

Grot, Anton, 1884-1974. Designer

Anderson, Milo. Costume designer

Warner Bros. Pictures.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1969