Ship Ahoy (motion picture) (trailer) (1942)
Title
Ship Ahoy (motion picture) (trailer) (1942)
Subject
Motion picture
URL
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Description
Content description from IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035320):
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved. The enemy agents got the plan from a pulp novel written by Kibble, who is also on the ship and falls for her. But then she overhears his new novel and believes that he is talking about her. So when they leave the boat, she ignores him, but somehow, the bags get switched and he gets the magnetic mine - which she must later retrieve. It is mainly a Tommy Dorsey showcase with Sinatra singing - Powell dancing - and a small plot.
Ephemera: text saved from original ephemera. Small clipping from program guide: Ship Ahoy--1942. Musical-comedy Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr. Writer on cruise believes star dancer is aiding the enemy, but she is really a government spy. March 23 12:10 a.m.
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Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved. The enemy agents got the plan from a pulp novel written by Kibble, who is also on the ship and falls for her. But then she overhears his new novel and believes that he is talking about her. So when they leave the boat, she ignores him, but somehow, the bags get switched and he gets the magnetic mine - which she must later retrieve. It is mainly a Tommy Dorsey showcase with Sinatra singing - Powell dancing - and a small plot.
Ephemera: text saved from original ephemera. Small clipping from program guide: Ship Ahoy--1942. Musical-comedy Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr. Writer on cruise believes star dancer is aiding the enemy, but she is really a government spy. March 23 12:10 a.m.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Edward Buzzell (director)
Matt Brooks, Bradford Ropes, Bert Kalmar, Harry Clork, Irving Brecher, and Harry Kurnitz (writers)
Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, and Bert Lahr (performers)
Jack Cummings (producer)
George Bassman and George Stoll (composers)
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Date
16 April 1942 (released)
1986 March 23 (recorded)
Citation
“Ship Ahoy (motion picture) (trailer) (1942),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections at Arizona State University, accessed October 13, 2026, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/756.