"Romance on the High Seas", make no mistake about it, was especially designed to introduce Doris Day to film audiences. It was directed by the legendary Michael Curtiz with musical numbers handled by the equally legendary Busby Berkley.
The plot, if you can call it that, is silly to say the least. It's about a very rich couple Michael and Elvira Kent (Don DeFore, Janis Paige) who each suspect the other of "fooling around". Michael sees Elvira seemingly cozying up to a car salesman (Douglas Kennedy) and Elvira suspects that he is involved with his new secretary Miss Medwick (Leslie Brooks). Much hilarity ensues.
Elvira hires aspiring singer Georgia Garrett (Doris Day) to impersonate her on an ocean voyage to Rio De Janero while she remains home to spy on Michael. Much hilarity ensues. Michael meanwhile engages the services of Private Investigator Peter Virgil (Jack Carson) to go on the voyage and spy on his wife. Much hilarity ensues. Michael and Georgia (as Elvira) form an attraction for each other. But, unexpectedly, Georgia's "boyfriend" Oscar Farrar (Oscar Levant) arrives on the scene. Much hilarity ensues.
When the ship docks in Rio, Peter is felling guilty over his attraction to what he thinks is a married woman. His messages back to Michael have him confused so he flies to Rio to see what is going on. Much hilarity ensues. Tlo further complicate matters, Elvira also decides to go to Rio. Much hilarity ensues. Through all of the confusion, Georgia and Peter are united in love and she gets her big break performing in a local night club and everybody lives happily ever after.
Day steals the picture getting to sing a number of songs including "It's Magic" three times. She became a major star after this film and never looked back. I never thought of Jack Carson as a romantic lead. He was more at home as a second banana to Dennis Morgan in those days. Janis Paige would appear with Day in "Pease Don't Eat the Daisies" 12 years later. Don DeFore's career was on the decline to the point that he wound up plying the next door neighbor on the "Ozzie and Harriet" TV show.
Also in the cast are S. Z. Sakall as the cuddly old Uncle Lazlo Lazlo, Franlin Pangborn as a hotel clerk and Fortunio Bonanova as the band leader who gives Day her big Break.
The plot, if you can call it that, is silly to say the least. It's about a very rich couple Michael and Elvira Kent (Don DeFore, Janis Paige) who each suspect the other of "fooling around". Michael sees Elvira seemingly cozying up to a car salesman (Douglas Kennedy) and Elvira suspects that he is involved with his new secretary Miss Medwick (Leslie Brooks). Much hilarity ensues.
Elvira hires aspiring singer Georgia Garrett (Doris Day) to impersonate her on an ocean voyage to Rio De Janero while she remains home to spy on Michael. Much hilarity ensues. Michael meanwhile engages the services of Private Investigator Peter Virgil (Jack Carson) to go on the voyage and spy on his wife. Much hilarity ensues. Michael and Georgia (as Elvira) form an attraction for each other. But, unexpectedly, Georgia's "boyfriend" Oscar Farrar (Oscar Levant) arrives on the scene. Much hilarity ensues.
When the ship docks in Rio, Peter is felling guilty over his attraction to what he thinks is a married woman. His messages back to Michael have him confused so he flies to Rio to see what is going on. Much hilarity ensues. Tlo further complicate matters, Elvira also decides to go to Rio. Much hilarity ensues. Through all of the confusion, Georgia and Peter are united in love and she gets her big break performing in a local night club and everybody lives happily ever after.
Day steals the picture getting to sing a number of songs including "It's Magic" three times. She became a major star after this film and never looked back. I never thought of Jack Carson as a romantic lead. He was more at home as a second banana to Dennis Morgan in those days. Janis Paige would appear with Day in "Pease Don't Eat the Daisies" 12 years later. Don DeFore's career was on the decline to the point that he wound up plying the next door neighbor on the "Ozzie and Harriet" TV show.
Also in the cast are S. Z. Sakall as the cuddly old Uncle Lazlo Lazlo, Franlin Pangborn as a hotel clerk and Fortunio Bonanova as the band leader who gives Day her big Break.